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5 days, 5 hours ago

Meet the 104-year-old hero helping save homes in Brentwood from Palisades fire

LA Times

Los Angeles watched in awe and terror this weekend as a squadron of aircraft bombed water on the Palisades fire as it marched toward Brentwood and Encino. California All-out aerial assault works to save homes in Brentwood, Encino as Palisades fire approaches There have been at least 13 deaths and more than 10,000 structures have been damaged or destroyed. Firefighters …

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1 week, 6 days ago

New Orleans truck attacker ‘inspired’ by the Islamic State: FBI

The Hindu

“The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers acted alone,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Thursday, reversing its position from a day earlier that he likely worked with others in carrying out the deadly attack, which officials say was an “act of terrorism inspired by the Islamic State group”. Authorities recovered …

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Sugar Bowl postponed for 24 hours following New Orleans Bourbon Street attack

India Today

NEW ORLEANS: The College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Sugar Bowl between Georgia and Notre Dame has been postponed after a truck plowed into a New Year’s crowd about a mile away early Wednesday, killing at least 10 people. The casualties occurred when a driver rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter …

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2 weeks ago

Driver rams New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 10

Deccan Chronicle

NEW ORLEANS — A driver wrought carnage on New Orleans' famed French Quarter early on New Year's Day, killing 10 people as he rammed a pickup truck into a crowd before being shot to death by police, authorities said. The driver was killed in a firefight with police following the attack around 3:15 a.m. in an area teeming with New …

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2 weeks ago

New Orleans truck crash: Suspect killed in shootout; police says attacker ‘hell-bent on creating carnage’

Live Mint

The suspect involved in the New Orleans truck crash, which resulted in 10 deaths and 30 injuries on New Year's Day, was killed following a firefight with police, according to law enforcement sources who spoke to the AP. Differing views on the nature of the attack At a news conference, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell referred to the killings as …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

At least 15 killed, 30 injured as driver crashes truck into New Orleans crowd

ABC

At least 15 people have been killed and another 30 injured after a driver crashed a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year's revellers in the US city of New Orleans, with the FBI believing he did not act alone. City officials said the incident took place about 3:15am, local time, on New Year's Day, in the city's famed …

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4 weeks ago

Kulgam encounter: 5 terrorists killed in gunfight with security forces in J&K

Live Mint

At least five terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces in Kulgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, on Thursday, December 19, according to officials in Srinagar. Indian Army's Chinar Corps said the terrorists opened a "heavy volume" of fire when challenged by the security forces. Based on specific intelligence input regarding the presence of terrorists, a Joint Operation was …

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4 weeks, 2 days ago

Naxals use villagers as human shields during encounters in Chhattisgarh

India TV News

In a disturbing turn of events, Naxals in Chhattisgarh reportedly have used villagers, including minors, as human shields during an encounter with the security forces in the Narayanpur district of the state. Naxal militia members took advantage of villagers carrying supplies for the rebels and used them as a shield for their leader, Karthik, who is an important Maoist leader …

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Israeli forces push deeper into Lebanon in widening war campaign

Live Mint

TEL AVIV—Israel is expanding its ground operation in southern Lebanon, sending troops into villages farther from its border, in what some former senior security officials worry could turn into a war of attrition. Some security experts view Israel’s expanding ground operation as a tactical step to neutralize the threat of Hezbollah antitank missile attacks on Israeli border towns. “At the …

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2 months ago

Manipur Tense After Gunfight Leaves 11 Dead, 6 Missing

Deccan Chronicle

Guwahati: A day after 11 suspected militants were killed in a gunfight, security forces on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two Meitei men from houses in Manipur’s Jiribam district of Manipur. According to local residents, the two had been staying at a relief camp at Borobekra police station and were among 10 people from the camp to have gone missing …

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Three Naxalites killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur

New Indian Express

RAIPUR: Three cadres of the banned Communist Party of India were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in the Maoist-affected district of Bijapur, located approximately 400 km south of Raipur, on Friday. "Based on specific intelligence about the presence of Maoists along the Usoor-Basaguda-Pamed area in Bijapur, a joint team consisting of the District Reserve Guard, Special …

2 months, 1 week ago

4 Pak Army personnel killed in gunfight with terrorists near Afghanistan border

India Today

The Pakistan Army said on Thursday that four of its soldiers were killed in a firefight with terrorists near the northwestern border with Afghanistan. The fire exchange took place in the tribal region of South Waziristan, which sits next to the Afghan border - a region that has long been a safe haven for the terrorists who operate on both …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Major Mukund Varadarajan: The Hero Behind Sivakarthikeyan's Amaran

The Hindu

Major Mukund Varadarajan is a fearless leader in the Indian Army's Rajput Regiment. Born in 1983 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, he joined the Army and fought for his country in Jammu and Kashmir. He was a Major in the 44 Rashtriya Rifles, an elite counter-terrorism unit. Mukund Varadarajan displayed leadership qualities and a strong sense of duty from an early …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Ten Arrested in Imitation Firefight Linked to Theft of Counterfeit Gold

The Hindu

Ten persons were arrested in connection with an altercation between two gangs in Sri Sathyasai District. The fight involved imitation firearms, resulting in injuries and property damage. The police recovered evidence, including firearms, bullets, and counterfeit gold chains, and the accused were remanded for further investigation.

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hamas Leader's Death: Footage Shows Preparations for Massacre

Live Mint

Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar was filmed moving his belongings into a tunnel hours before the 7 October attack that triggered the ongoing conflict. The footage, released by the IDF, shows Sinwar taking down his TV, preparing to watch his terrorists murder, kidnap and rape, and hiding underneath his civilians before taking the television set into the tunnel. Sinwar's death was …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar cause of death revealed by autopsy after Israeli soldiers killed terror boss in Gaza firefight

Daily Mail

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed by a single gunshot to his head, his autopsy has found. Pictured: Sinwar in December 2022 People hold firearms and posters of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar during a rally by protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, to show support to Lebanon's Hezbollah and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, in Sanaa, Yemen The haunting moment visibly …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Indian soldiers kill at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in Abujhmad forest

Al Jazeera

Police say 31 Maoist rebels killed in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh after a nine-hour firefight. At least 31 suspected Maoist rebels have been killed during a clash with Indian security forces, state police said. The confrontation took place on Friday after counterinsurgency forces, acting on intelligence, surrounded approximately 50 suspected rebels in the dense Abujhmad forest, located on …

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4 months ago

Chilling new details emerge in kidnapping of glamorous teen heiress Patty Hearst who became machine gun-wielding terrorist

Daily Mail

Fifty years after the heiress to the Hearst newspaper empire was kidnapped by a radical left wing group, one of its members has come forward to share chilling new details about the heinous crime. Harris is pictured leaving the Alameda County Courthouse at night on Thursday, August 31, 1978 in Oakland, California after he and his wife, Emily, pleaded guilty …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Skies above Southern California wildfire looked like ‘a nuclear warhead had been set off’

LA Times

Firefighters from the Mill Creek hotshot crew monitor the Line fire burning over a ridge off Highway 38 on Monday. “It was a giant mushroom with compact billowy clouds and crazy smoke rings around it on the plume coming up.” As mountain residents remained on guard, firefighting crews in Southern California continued to battle out-of-control wildfires Monday that had scorched …

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5 months ago

SC Orders States to Collect Mineral Tax Dues Back to 2005

Deccan Chronicle

New Delhi: An Army captain who was injured in a barrage of gunfire as he confronted militants in the woods of Assar in Jammu and Kashmir’s eastern Doda district on Tuesday evening succumbed in a military hospital early Wednesday, the officials said. The Army said Captain Deepak Singh of the 48 Rashtriya Rifles led his men from the front to …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Jammu and Kashmir news: Army foils terrorist infiltration bid in Battal, one soldier injured

Live Mint

One soldier was injured during an exchange of fire after the Indian Army foiled an infiltration bid by effectively engaging in a gunfight in the Battal sector of Jammu and Kashmir, said White Knight Corps. In a post on X, the White Knight Corps said, “Alert troops foiled an infiltration bid by effectively engaging infiltrating terrorists with effective fire in …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Army jawan, civilian injured in terror attack in J&K’s Rajouri

Deccan Chronicle

An Army jawan and a civilian sustained minor injuries in exchange of fire during a failed terror attack on the house of a Village Defence Guard in a remote village of Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier Rajouri district overnight, officials said on Monday.They said that a group of militants targeted the house of the VDG Shaurya Chakra awardee Parshotam Kumar in …

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6 months ago

At least 4 Indian soldiers killed during firefight in Kashmir

Al Jazeera

Government forces were conducting search operations when the shooting began in the forests of Doda in Jammu area. In a statement, a group calling itself the Kashmir Tigers claimed responsibility for the assault saying it “laid an ambush and opened fire” on Indian forces in an attack that lasted 20 minutes. A security official, who asked not to be named, …

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6 months, 1 week ago

With 2 more killed, 6 militants dead in long operation at Kulgam

The Hindu

The death toll of militants, trapped at two encounter sites in south Kashmir’s Kulgam, rose to six on July 7, as the anti-militancy operation continued in the district for the second consecutive day. The J&K Police and the Indian Army continue to carry out combing operations at the encounter sites in Kulgam’s Chinigam and Motergam areas, where security forces, including …

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Meet the 104-year-old hero helping save homes in Brentwood from Palisades fire

New Orleans truck attacker ‘inspired’ by the Islamic State: FBI

Sugar Bowl postponed for 24 hours following New Orleans Bourbon Street attack

Driver rams New Year's revelers in New Orleans, killing 10

New Orleans truck crash: Suspect killed in shootout; police says attacker ‘hell-bent on creating carnage’

At least 15 killed, 30 injured as driver crashes truck into New Orleans crowd

Kulgam encounter: 5 terrorists killed in gunfight with security forces in J&K

Naxals use villagers as human shields during encounters in Chhattisgarh

Israeli forces push deeper into Lebanon in widening war campaign

Manipur Tense After Gunfight Leaves 11 Dead, 6 Missing

Three Naxalites killed in encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur

4 Pak Army personnel killed in gunfight with terrorists near Afghanistan border

Major Mukund Varadarajan: The Hero Behind Sivakarthikeyan's Amaran

Ten Arrested in Imitation Firefight Linked to Theft of Counterfeit Gold

Hamas Leader's Death: Footage Shows Preparations for Massacre

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar cause of death revealed by autopsy after Israeli soldiers killed terror boss in Gaza firefight

Indian soldiers kill at least 31 suspected Maoist rebels in Abujhmad forest

Chilling new details emerge in kidnapping of glamorous teen heiress Patty Hearst who became machine gun-wielding terrorist

Skies above Southern California wildfire looked like ‘a nuclear warhead had been set off’

SC Orders States to Collect Mineral Tax Dues Back to 2005

Jammu and Kashmir news: Army foils terrorist infiltration bid in Battal, one soldier injured

Army jawan, civilian injured in terror attack in J&K’s Rajouri

At least 4 Indian soldiers killed during firefight in Kashmir

With 2 more killed, 6 militants dead in long operation at Kulgam