Firefighters responding to a house fire in central France found the dismembered body of an 83-year-old woman in her freezer on New Year’s Day, sources close to the investigation told AFP on Thursday. The woman’s grandson, in his 30s, was questioned at the scene and detained pending
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Eight people have been killed in a helicopter crash in Taiwan – including the country’s top military general, Air Force General Shen Yi-ming, Taiwan’s chief of general staff. The tragedy came after the chopper, a UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, bought from the United States, attempted to make an emergency landing in Taipei. In a statement, […]
Gary McLaren, 50, died after a firework exploded in his face in the New Year with his Thai fiancee and friends in the party resort of Pattaya, eastern Thailand, on December 31 according to a report by Daily Mail. Mr. McLaren, who was originally from Corby, Northamptonshire, had been partying at the Miami A Go-Go […]
Kidnappers have murdered six teenagers in Ethiopia after their demands for ransom were denied. The six victims were buried on Tuesday, a state-owned Amharic regional broadcaster said. Shortly before Christmas eight youths aged from 10 to 16 had been abducted in the region of Gondar. One teenager was able to escape, another was severely injured […]
Jiang Xiyun, the former chairman Hengfeng Bank Co., has been sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve by a Chinese court for making illegal gains of over $100 million. Bloomberg reports that Yantai Intermediate People’s Court gave the ruling. He was convicted for moving 754 million yuan ($108 million) worth of Hangfeng shares to his […]
Twenty-one militants, including a Taliban shadow provincial governor, were killed in an Afghan Air Force sortie in eastern Laghman province on Thursday night in a latest raid against the insurgents, the country’s Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday. “A total of 21 Taliban fighters including Zain-Alabidin, the shadow governor of Laghman, were killed in an airstrike […]
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