Leah Davis Lokan, 65, was attacked by the bear during the early hours of Tuesday morning during a camping and biking trip in Ovando. Local reports said it was the second time the bear had approached the camp that morning, having awakened Lokan and two fellow campers just 30 minutes …
Read More »Multiple gunmen killed & arrested in firefight with suspected assassins of Haitian President Jovenel
The suspected assassins were arrested “shortly before 6pm” local time on Wednesday, Haiti’s minister of communication Frantz Exantus announced on Twitter. While Exantus did not identify any of the alleged perpetrators or say how many had been brought into custody, Haiti’s national police chief later told a press conference that …
Read More »I get the ‘white saviour’ thing in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. But that doesn’t mean it should be killed off and not read by children
It’s only the most inspirational book of all time – a Pulitzer Prize winner that was originally banned for its raw depiction of racism and sexual violence. But now one school in Scotland has banned ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ for another reason: because it plays into a “white-saviour narrative”. When I …
Read More »At least 4 killed as ‘one of the most destructive’ fires in decades rages in Cyprus (VIDEO)
The fire started around midday on Saturday amid a heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 40C (104F). Strong winds spread the fires on Sunday, affecting an area of over 50 square kilometers (19 square miles), Reuters reported. At least 10 communities have been affected, and villages are being evacuated. Four bodies have …
Read More »Swedish policeman killed in Gothenburg shooting becomes 1st officer to be murdered in 14 yrs, reports say
The officer’s death was announced by police in a statement on Thursday, which revealed that he died in hospital following the shooting in Hisingen, Gothenburg. Local police chief Klas Johansson called the killing “a terribly tragic event” and a “sad message to receive,” while the police statement claimed that the …
Read More »RIP rock n’ roll, killed by Mumford & Sons’ trustafarian banjo player who read a book the mob didn’t like
Rock n’ roll is dead, dead and buried. And its obituary has now been written…by the banjo-playing son of a billionaire. It was inevitable, I suppose. Rock gods cannot exist in the smug and suffocating, safe environment of the modern middle classes. Especially in Britain. Plus social media is just …
Read More »Building collapse in Miami feared to have killed dozens as search stretches on over 12 hours with no new rescues, 99 still missing
Miami-Dade County’s Assistant Fire Chief Ray Jadallah confirmed 55 apartment units on the building’s northeast side had totally collapsed, with 35 people rescued from the wreckage of the 12-story building and ten “assessed and treated” on site. A further two were sent to nearby hospitals, where one died. While estimates …
Read More »1 killed after truck plows into crowd at pride parade in Florida, mayor calls incident ‘terrorist attack against LGBT’
The incident occurred just as the Wilton Manors Stonewall Pride Parade kicked off on Saturday evening. A white pickup truck sped up, reportedly in the direction of the car of Democratic U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but instead crashed into a business and hit two people, one of whom did …
Read More »Four snails & 90 clams could be killed in upcoming hypersonic missile test, US Air Force warns
The Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) test may finally take place next month after a previous failed attempt, Gen. Timothy M. Ray, head of Global Strike Command, said in early June. And those paying the price will not only be the American taxpayers, but also the marine life of the …
Read More »1 killed & 11 injured after helicopter carrying ballot boxes crashes in Iran – media
The accident occurred in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan Province. The person killed in the crash was a police officer tasked with guarding the ballot boxes, the province’s governor, Qasem Soleimani Dashtaki, told IRNA news agency. A photo posted on Iranian news site Khabar Online shows emergency workers at the scene …
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