Florida man who knew slain Boston Marathon suspect killed during questioning
Posted by: Nathan Salant
Orlando :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 09:34:21 -0700 | disasters-news
A man linked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the slain suspect in last month's fatal bombing of the Boston Marathon, was shot and killed Wednesday as he was being questioned by investigators in Orlando, Fla. A federal law enforcement official said Ibragim...
President Bashar al-Assad agrees to join the peace conference in Geneva
Posted by: prabirghose
Damascus :: Syria | updated 2013-05-24 11:09:28 -0700 | disasters-news
Russia has informed that President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to participate in the Geneva peace conference in June. Do we now see an end in sight to the ongoing spate of violence that has killed more than 80,000 in Syria...
Woolwich attack: Lee Rigby's family pays tribute to slain soldier (Video)
Posted by: Eileen Kersey
Manchester :: United Kingdom | updated 2013-05-24 11:33:09 -0700 | disasters-news
Family members of Lee Rigby, the drummer soldier hacked to death in Woolwich, London, on Wednesday, attended a press conference Friday. Their pain is raw and terrible to watch. You want to reach out and put your arms around them...
Washington bridge collapse closes main I-5 route from Mexico to Canada
Posted by: PrairieDogPress
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 10:20:10 -0700 | disasters-news
An oversized truck hit the Skagit River Bridge ceiling steel beams Thursday around 7:00 p.m., causing that section of the bridge to buckle and collapse, and sending cars into the freezing water below, authorities said. Three people were subsequently retrieved...
Multiple explosions, heavy gunfire rock Kabul (Video)
Posted by: Nina Rai
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated 2013-05-24 10:50:59 -0700 | disasters-news
Multiple large blasts rocked a bustling area in the center of Kabul followed by gunfire Friday, police said. It is a second blast to hit the Afghan capital in little over a week. A witness describing the incident told Reuters...
Russia says: Syrian regime agrees to attend Geneva international conference
Posted by: saleh1966
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-24 11:22:19 -0700 | disasters-news
The Russian Spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich confirmed that Russia has received an approval from Syria that it had agreed in principle to attend an international peace conference on the Syria crisis that is expected to take place...
Bridge collapse into Skagit river - USA
Posted by: hmtis
Washougal :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 11:13:05 -0700 | disasters-news
The collapse in happened on the bit of Interstate 5 over the Skagit River, around the range of 60 miles north of Seattle. Three people were sent to the healing facility after a bit of an Interstate 5 interstate scaffold...
Two Earthquake Hits Russia And US with magnitude of 8.5 and 5.7
Posted by: rooys
Moscow :: Russia | updated 2013-05-24 10:10:14 -0700 | disasters-news
Two earthquakes have hit the Ring of Fire region, enrolling magnitudes of 8.2 and 5.7 and arousing a tidal wave cautioning. Moscow felt tremors from the more compelling shake, making some people clear edifices in spite of the epicenter being...
Do gun and drug texts and emails show Trayvon Martin deserved to die? (Opinion)
Posted by: Eileen Kersey
Sanford :: FL :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 10:29:25 -0700 | disasters-news
In February 2012 George Zimmerman, a security operative, shot dead Trayvon Martin. Trayvon was 17-years-old and George 28. In Florida, where the killing took place, a law on shooting in events deemed self-defense meant that George Zimmerman did not initially...
TTP terror network busted in Chamkani
Source: DAWN
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-24 09:00:02 -0700 | disasters-news
Police claim to have busted a Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) terrorist network which was assigned the task of targeting politicians during the 2013 elections. They have arrested six suspected terrorists along with a woman and seized a suicide jacket, hand grenades and...
Queens Man Convicted of Murder in Robbery That Led to a Death
Source: The New York Times
New York City :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 10:58:37 -0700 | disasters-news
Queens Man Convicted of Murder in Robbery That Led to Officer's Death Published: May 24, 2013 A Queens man who joined a botched drug robbery that led to the shooting death of a New York City police officer was convicted...
Zoo worker hurt in tiger attack
Source: BBC
New York :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 10:50:51 -0700 | disasters-news
Cumbria Police said the 24-year-old member of staff was attacked in an enclosure at South Lakes Wild Animal Park, near Dalton-in-Furness...Cumbria Police said the animal was later securely locked in its enclosure and there had not been any risk to...
Gay rights advances not evident in immigration bill debate
Source: The Boston Globe
Boston :: MA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 08:51:53 -0700 | disasters-news
It was with a heavy heart that Senator Patrick Leahy, the Vermont Democrat, said he was withdrawing his amendment that would have allowed gay Americans to bring their foreign partners into the country as part of the immigration overhaul that...
Obama: Drone strikes are a necessary evil
Source: CNN
Say'ūn :: Yemen | updated 2013-05-24 06:43:27 -0700 | disasters-news
Jamie Crawford and Joe Sterling , CNN updated 9:45 PM EDT, Thu May 23, 2013 Washington (CNN) -- Drone strikes are a necessary evil, but one that must be used with more temperance as the United States' security situation evolves,...
Suicide blast in Peshawar 2 , killed , 5 injured
Posted by: musarrat ullah jan
Peshawar :: Pakistan | updated 2013-05-24 02:57:00 -0700 | disasters-news
Peshawar, Explosion occurred in religious school (madrassa) near pajjagi road, in the result of the blast 2 people killed in 5 injured. According to the Fakir Abad Police terrorist used the pickup of the explosion on after Friday worship. Huge...
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