Tue, 21-Oct-2025

NYC Subway Shooting Points To increase Violent Crime In U.S. Transit

NYC subway

A tragic shooting invoked more fear to an already frightened community. “New Yorkers know, every day I wake up to protect this city,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said. “In my heart, this is a terrorizing action to put fear in the hearts of New Yorkers, but they don’t know who they’re messing with,” … Read more

Tigray rebels gang-raped women and girls in Ethiopia war

rape

NAIROBI – Tigrayan fighters deliberately killed civilians and gang-raped dozens of women and underage girls in two towns in Ethiopia’s Amhara region last year, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, the latest example of the horrific toll exacted by the 15-month war. The rights watchdog interviewed 30 rape survivors — some as young as 14 — and other … Read more

Laos bus accident kills 13 tourists, injures 31

Laos bus accident

Thirteen Chinese nationals were killed, 31 others injured and one remained missing in a bus crash in northern Laos here on Tuesday. The crash happened when a tour bus carrying 43 Chinese tourists, one Chinese tour assistant and two Lao nationals including the driver and a tour guide, skidded off a road between the capital … Read more