by Jerry Fletcher | Apr 30, 2015 | Terrorism
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has arrested 93 people suspected of belonging to the Islamic State militant group, including two people who planned a failed suicide car #bombing against the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, the interior ministry said on Tuesday....
by Jerry Fletcher | Apr 30, 2015 | Earthquakes
(Reuters) – An #earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck off Papua New Guinea on Thursday, 154 km south of Rabaul, at a depth of 85 km (53 miles), the United States Geological Survey reported. Rabaul, a town on East New Britain Island, lies in the shadow of...
by Jerry Fletcher | Apr 30, 2015 | Terrorism
BUJUMBURA (Reuters) – A senior U.S. diplomat told Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza on Thursday that the east African country risks boiling over if it smothers political opposition, as protests against the president entered a fifth day. The Burundi Red...
by Jerry Fletcher | Apr 30, 2015 | Terrorism
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will hold joint naval drills with Russia in mid-May in the Mediterranean Sea, the first time the two countries will hold military exercises together in that part of the world, the Chinese Defence Ministry said on Thursday. China...
