Minnesota attack considered terrorism
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — The attack in St. Cloud’s main shopping center that left nine people with stab wounds is being treated as an act of terrorism, federal authorities said Sunday. Police Chief William Blair Anderson said an off-duty officer from another jurisdiction confronted and shot the attacker to death Saturday night in Crossroads Center.
Bernie Sanders Tells Third-Party Voters Exactly What They Need to Hear
Since the Democratic National Convention at the end of July, Bernie Sanders has been keeping a fairly low profile. It was to be expected coming off a very long, exhausting presidential campaign. However, running as successful of a campaign as he did, Sanders is fully aware that he couldn’t stay on the sidelines for too […]
Muslim woman set on fire was not target of hate crime, New York police say
Officials say three other victims were approached in a similar manner and in the same proximity as the Saturday attack on a Scottish woman. Police do not believe the man who set a Muslim woman dressed in traditional religious attire on fire in New York was motivated by anti-Muslim bias, they said on Wednesday, after […]
PRI: Hate Crimes Against Muslims Increased After 9/11
“I was afraid to go outside. If I stayed inside, I couldn’t mess up, except maybe with my words, which I policed carefully. I couldn’t speed, I couldn’t frighten anyone, I couldn’t break any law—no matter how tenuous—and therefore couldn’t be thrown in Gitmo,” says American Muslim writer Shawna Ayoub Ainslie who shared her experience […]
Dozens killed in Central African Republic massacre
Rebels have killed dozens of villagers close to a town in the centre of the Central African Republic (CAR), according to a presidential spokesman. The incident marks the worst bloodshed in recent months in a country trying to draw a line under years of religious violence and political turmoil.
UN to meet after airstrike that killed dozens of Syrian troops
New York/Beirut (dpa) – The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting on Syria Saturday after reports that an airstrike by forces taking part in the US-led coalition to fight Islamic State might have inadvertantly hit a Syrian government position, killing dozens. The council announced late Saturday that it would meet at 7:30 pm […]
US aid deal ‘significant reward’ for Israeli right
The new military aid deal formalised by the United States and Israel on September 14 could serve to boost an intransigent, right-wing Israeli government that has already shown little appetite for substantial concessions to the Palestinians, analysts say. “The primary lesson that the increasingly extremist Israeli right will draw from this agreement is that there […]