‘Cowardly act of terror’: Officials react to Manhattan truck attack that killed at least 8

Published time: 31 Oct, 2017 21:50 Edited time: 31 Oct, 2017 21:57 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has confirmed the truck attack that killed eight people is a terrorist attack, and Governor Andrew Cuomo told reporters there was no indication of a wider plot. New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill called the incident […]

“A Cowardly Parade”

Reuters/Stringer An estimated several hundred white nationalists descended on the University of Virginia’s campus in Charlottesville on Friday night for an impromptu torchlit rally. The demonstration, which took place ahead of the alt-right Unite The Right event in the city’s Emancipation Park on Saturday, led to violent exchanges with counter-protesters on the university grounds. The […]

French memorial to Jewish children killed in WW2 desecrated in ‘shameful & cowardly’ act

Published time: 8 Aug, 2017 16:36 France has been shocked by an act of vandalism at a memorial site, where a plaque bearing the names of victims of the Nazis during World War II, 44 children among them, was broken off and stolen in the city of Lyon. The desecrated memorial was dedicated to the […]

‘Cowardly terrorist attack’: 3 women killed in shopping mall blast in Bogota, Colombia

Published time: 17 Jun, 2017 23:49 Edited time: 18 Jun, 2017 01:41 The powerful explosion that rocked a shopping center in the Colombian capital’s tourist district has been called a terrorist attack by Bogota’s mayor. At least three women, including a French volunteer, died in the blast. Several others were seriously injured. Bogota Mayor Enrique […]

‘Rights are lost by cowardly laws': Snowden says govts, not terrorists, undercut free speech

Whistleblower Edward Snowden offered an impassioned argument against terrorism being used as a pretext for introducing mass surveillance in a video-linked speech to a migration conference on Tuesday night. Speaking to the Estoril conference on global migration in Portugal via video from Moscow, where he has lived for the past four years after being granted […]