Ecuadorean security forces patrol the area around the main square and presidential palace after Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa declared the country in a state of “internal armed conflict” and ordered the army to carry out military operations against the country’s powerful drug gangs, in downtown Quito on January 9, 2024. Rodrigo Buendia | Afp | … Read more
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape. The imprisoned leader of a drug gang mysteriously vanished from his cell in the coastal city … Read more
Video captured the moment a couple was ambushed at gunpoint while trying to sell an iPad in Pomona. The victim, Eduardo Reyes, met the suspect through OfferUp, an online marketplace that allows people to sell items to local buyers. The suspect had messaged Reyes, saying he was interested in purchasing an iPad that Reyes posted … Read more
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the country’s military commanders the most powerful means must be mobilized to destroy the United States and South Korea if they choose military confrontation, state media reported on Monday. Kim said the danger of an armed confrontation on the Korean peninsula is fast becoming a … Read more
BANGKOK — An ethnic armed group in northeastern Myanmar has seized a major crossing point for trade along the Chinese border, residents and media reports said. The border gate in Laukkaing township, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone in the northern part of Shan state, became the fifth crossing seized by the group since … Read more
Gunna still isn’t taking any chances with his life as Young Thug’s YSL trial trudges on — even for a simple day of shopping, he’s got hired guns watching his back and his front. The “Fukumean” rapper was spotted shopping with his armed bodyguards at Saks Fifth Avenue in Bev Hills this week — which … Read more
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti on Wednesday, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them, according to the director of the medical center, who pleaded for help via social media. The Fontaine Hospital Center in the capital of Port-au-Prince is considered an oasis and a lifeline … Read more
German news agency dpa has reported that the airport in the northern city of Hamburg has been closed to passengers and flights have been canceled after a vehicle broke through security and entered the premises ByThe Associated Press November 4, 2023, 5:01 PM Police guard the scene of a security breach at the Hamburg Airport, … Read more
BANGKOK — The leader of Myanmar ’s army-installed government said the military will carry out counterattacks against a powerful alliance of ethnic armed groups that has seized towns near the Chinese border in the country’s northeastern and northern regions, state-run media reported Friday. The Global New Light of Myanmar newspaper quoted Senior Gen. Min Aung … Read more
Tori Spelling leaves LA home after armed man takes over neighborhood Tori Spelling had to evacuate her rental home after a man was arrested for holding a hostage at gunpoint in her neighborhood. On Wednesday afternoon, the Trick actress was seen in Los Angeles amid the commotion which reportedly involved an armed man who broke … Read more