A media bus at the Olympics in Rio was vandalized on Tuesday night, possibly by gunfire, witnesses claim. USA Today reports that a passenger heard gunshots striking one of the buses used to transport media to and from Olympic events. The bus was reportedly returning from the women’s basketball venue in Deodoro, when passengers said that they…
Shaima Hussein should have left Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital on Wednesday cradling her newborn son. Instead, she left clutching a bundle of paperwork, the bureaucratic remains of a young life cut short. Hussein’s son was among 11 babies who died of suffocation after a fire broke out in the hospital’s maternity ward. Some were just hours…
A suicide bomber in Pakistan killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday in an attack on mourners gathered at a hospital in the southwestern city of Quetta, and Islamic State claimed responsibility. The bomber struck as a crowd of mostly lawyers and journalists crammed into the emergency department to accompany…