Category: WORLD

PITTSBURGH: A man opened fire at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday morning, killing 11 people and wounding six others. The suspect identified by AP as Robert Bowers, 46, surrendered after a firefight with police. Bowers appears to have made several anti-Semitic comments on social media. The gunman opened fire around 10 a.m. at the Tree of Life Synagogue in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood. Squirrel Hill, just east of downtown Pittsburgh, is the hub of the city’s Jewish community. The FBI said Bowers is being charged with 29 federal…

At least 22 people have died and 187 are injured after a train derailed and overturned on a coastal railway in Taiwan. The train had been carrying more than 360 passengers on a popular weekend route from a suburb of Taipei in the north to Taitung, a city on Taiwan’s southeast coast. The crash on the popular east coast line injured another 187 people Sunday and left the Puyuma Express lying zig-zagged across the tracks in the island’s worst rail accident for a quarter century. Rescue services, including soldiers and firefighters, were…

Khashoggi, 59, came from a prominent Saudi family with Turkish origins.The prominent journalist had written columns critical of the Saudi government while living in self-imposed exile in the US. Saudi Arabia acknowledged early Saturday that Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in a fight, and said 18 Saudis were being held as suspects.Eighteen Saudi nationals were said to have been arrested. Khashoggi, a critic of the crown prince, went missing after entering the consulate to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. Donald Trump said Saudi Arabia’s…

MOSCOW: A Russian official said a student attacked a vocational college Wednesday in Crimea, a rampage that killed 17 other students and left more than 40 people wounded, before killing himself. The preliminary examination of the bodies of the victims indicates that they died of gunshot wounds. Nobody was killed by the blast that rocked the college earlier on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said. Russian officials at first reported a gas explosion, then said an explosive device ripped through the college canteen at lunchtime in a suspected terrorist attack. Olga…

HAITI: The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend rose to 17 people with 333 injured, authorities said Monday, as thousands of people slept outdoors fearing aftershocks would topple their cracked homes. After two days of searching for victims of the disaster, the country moved into a response phase Monday. The government faced two challenges: attending to the injured and managing fears. A magnitude 5.2 aftershock on Sunday afternoon sent people rushing into the street in Port-de-Paix, the coastal town that bore the brunt of…