Gunmen carried out a deadly attack on a church in southern Jordan on Friday, authorities said. The public security directorate initially said at least seven people were killed but later lowered the death toll to six. Two assailants stormed the compound of a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hammoud in Karak governorate before…
The U.S. ambassador to Israel condemned a settler attack during the olive harvest in the West Bank in which an American journalist was beaten. In a social media post on Saturday, Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the attack on Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine “vicious & cowardly,” citing that she is an American citizen and had…
Three men accused of killing two Australian surfers and an American at a Mexican surfing hotspot went on trial Monday, two years after their killings in a suspected robbery. Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, 30 and 33, respectively, and their 30-year-old American friend Jack Carter Rhoad were on a surfing trip to Mexico’s Pacific…
The federal indictment against ICE officer Christian Castro has been unsealed, detailing charges accusing him of lying to investigators about a north Minneapolis shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant in January. Castro, who works for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was released from custody last week after Republican Gov. Greg Abbott didn’t sign an extradition warrant…
Federal prosecutors are considering bringing criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who is accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in the leg during the Trump administration’s federal immigration surge in Minnesota in January, according to multiple sources familiar with the deliberations. The officer, Christian Castro, was charged in May by local prosecutors…
LOWER SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Two tribal elders were shot dead by unidentified armed men in the Zarmilan area of Toi Khulla tehsil of Lower South Waziristan on Sunday, police said. Lower South Waziristan District Police Officer (DPO) Shah Hassan told Dawn that the victims were travelling in a car from the Gul Kach area towards the…
LAKKI MARWAT: A constable was martyred and another sustained bullet wounds while on duty in an attack in the Saeedkhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Sunday, police said. District police officer’s spokesperson Qudratullah Khan told Dawn that the cops were attacked near the Saeedkhel graveyard, in the limits of the City Police…
