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NYC woman hacked to death with axe, second woman stabbed by attacker
Authorities are looking into whether an axe found in the block's rubbish compactor was the murder weapon. When officers arrived at the 8th-floor apartment, Rivera was unconscious and unresponsive in the living room, where she was pronounced dead. [Full Article...]
US ITC: USMCA trade deal would raise US GDP by 0.35%
Attack On Afghan Ministry Leaves Seven Dead
The statement further added that four militants involved in the attack were also killed during the clash with the security forces. The communication ministry itself is an 18-story building, thought to be the tallest building in Kabul . The communications ministry is located in Kabul's second police district, one of the busiest spots in the city, about two kilometres from the green zone. [Full Article...]
Libya crisis: Trump speaks with Haftar in sign of USA support
Haftar, seen by his allies Egypt and the United Arab Emirates as a bulwark against Islamists, backs a rival administration based in eastern Libya that is refusing to recognise the authority of the Tripoli government. "One reason behind Trump's phone call is that Haftar's army has revealed itself less powerful than the Libyan strongman had claimed", Harchaoui said. [Full Article...]
Sudan investigating Bashir after large sums of cash found at home
Al Jazeera said as president, al-Bashir often played up his humble beginnings as the child of a poor farming family in Hosh Bannaga, a small village consisting mainly of mud houses on the eastern bank of the Nile some 150km north of Khartoum . [Full Article...]
Volunteer doctors, cooks help Sudanese keep up protests
Report by BBC and other global news outlets on Wednesday, April 17, afternoon indicated Bashir who has been under house arrest since his ouster on April 11 was taken to Kobar maximum security prison in Khartoum, Sudan's capital city. The Trump administration suspended the next round of the talks, scheduled for the end of April, after the military said it would enter a two-year period of militar... [Full Article...]
Zookeeper hospitalized after tiger transported from Akron attacks at Topeka Zoo
Topeka Zoo director Brendan Wiley says the zookeeper was awake and alert when she was taken by ambulance to a hospital. "There was some kind of error that occurred here", he added. Praising the staff members for controlling the incident within about 10 minutes, Wiley shared that had it not been for "three heroes on our staff... [Full Article...]
Let’s be very clear: Sarah Sanders lied to Robert Mueller
In addition to the report outlining how the president attempted to obstruct justice, it shone light on the culture of lying that runs rampant in the White House, frequently led by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders . Now, it's important also to be clear that, while Sanders clearly lied to Mueller, and while lying to Mueller is a crime, it doesn't follow that she should have been indicted, as ... [Full Article...]