Month: May 2018

The 17-year-old student who authorities said killed 10 people when he opened fire in an art class in his Houston-area high school appeared to be disoriented on the morning after the rampage, one of his lawyers said Saturday. The teenager, identified by law enforcement as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, has been charged with capital murder and is …

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A Pakistani exchange student is among the 10 people killed Friday in a shooting at Santa Fe High School in the state of Texas. Sabika Sheikh was to return home to Pakistan for Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday that marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, according to the Pakistan Association of …

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The arrival to urban centers and the countryside of millions of Muslim labor migrants from Central Asia is at the center of what could emerge as Russia’s most radical ethnic makeover in centuries. …

Russia police shot dead four gunmen who attacked a Russian Orthodox church in the mostly Muslim Russian republic of Chechnya. …

Britain’s Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle have been married in a royal wedding at Windsor Castle watched by millions around the world. …

Native American agricultural activists expressed relief that the House Friday failed to pass an $868 billion spending bill that funds agriculture and nutrition assistance programs. “Today’s vote in the U.S. House provides an opportunity for even more Indian tribes to join the coalition in our efforts to raise public awareness of the risks and opportunities …

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A video clip filmed by Iranian man who says another man punched him for walking a dog in Tehran in violation of Islamist rules has sparked outrage from Iranian social media users. The man who shot the phone video sent it to Masih Alinejad, the freelance host of VOA Persian’s Tablet program, Thursday and said …

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The latest school shooting in the United States that killed ten people and one police officer left many others in despair, but this time, fewer seemed surprised.  When asked by a reporter whether she was shocked that a shooting took place at the Santa Fe High School in Texas, one student shook her head. “No, it …

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is preparing a “diplomatic road map” on Iran that will call for European and other allies to help force Tehran back to the negotiating table after President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal, a U.S. official says. …

The Washington Examiner’s opinion article called for Ukraine to conduct air strikes on a new bridge linking the annexed Crimea Peninsula to Russia. Russian officials were not amused. …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the Islamic world to unite in supporting the Palestinians and combating what he called Israel’s “tyranny.” …

France’s interior minister says authorities have thwarted a possible attack using ricin or explosives and arrested two brothers.   Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told BFM television Friday that authorities were tracking extremist activity on social networks and identified two young men “preparing to commit an attack with explosives or ricin.”   He said the young …

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The Army Corps of Engineers is pulling out of Puerto Rico Friday, ending its work restoring electricity to the U.S. territory’s residents and handing back responsibility for the island’s fragile electric grid to the bankrupt Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA. More than 16,000 people are reported to remain without power eight months after …

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Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Apple founder Steve Jobs are some of America’s best known inventors. But there are other, less recognizable individuals whose innovative products have greatly impacted our world. More than a dozen of them were recently honored for their unique contributions in a special ceremony at the National Inventors Hall of Fame …

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A friend of a Chechen-born man who carried out a deadly knife attack in Paris was charged on May 17 with “associating with criminal terrorists” while two women were detained for questioning, French judicial officials said. …