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Hartford Police Department This gun was recovered from the scene of a shooting on Standish Street in Hartford Sunday. Police say the suspect attempted to rob two men, but the victims fought back and struggled for the gun. Hartford police have arrested a man accused of pulling a gun and attempting to rob two other men on Standish Street Sunday evening. The incident took place around 6:30 p.m. at 43/45 Standish Street. According to police, 39-year-old Delfone Harvey pulled a gun on the victims and attempted to rob them, but the victims fought back, struggling with Harvey. During the struggle, two of the men suffered gunshot wounds to the arm and the third suffered injuries to his fingers. Police said that the suspect was forced out of the home through a front porch window and suffered injuries from the shattered glass. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said. The suspect was known to the victims. Harvey was charged with assault with a firearm, attempted robbery, criminal ...

North Korea is treating President Donald Trump's latest salvo in the United nations' nuclear spat as a "declaration of war," and is therefore claiming the right to shoot down American bombers in international airspace, North Korea's foreign minister said Monday. Ri Yong Ho, speaking in New York City where he was attending the United Nations General Assembly, urged other nations in the world body to remember that the United States declared war on North Korea — the U.S. has not done so — and touted nations' right to self-defense under the U.N. charter. "Since the U.S. declared war on our country we will have every right to make counter measures, including the right to shoot down the United States strategic bombers even when they are not yet inside the airspace border of our country," Ri said. President Donald Trump had tweeted that North Korea "won't be around much longer" if a speech Ri made at the United Nations mirrors the sentiments o...

Myanmar's army said Sunday that a mass grave of 28 Hindus had been discovered in violence-wracked Rakhine state, blaming the killings on Muslim Rohingya militants. The announcement could not be independently verified in an region that has been seized by communal violence since Rohingya militant raids on August 25 triggered a sweeping security crackdown. "Security members found and dug up 28 dead bodies of Hindus who were cruelly violently and killed by ARSA extremist Bengali terrorists in Rakhine State," a statement posted on the army chief's website said. The Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) is the group whose attacks on police posts triggered an army backlash so brutal that the UN believes it amounts to ethnic cleansing of the Muslim minority. More than 430,000 Rohingya have fled the region to Bangladesh in under a month. Some 30,000 Hindus and Buddhists based in the area have also been displaced, with some saying were terrorised by Rohingya militants. The army...

*POLICE ARE TREATING THE ATTACK ON SURGEON DR NASSER KURDY IN ALTRINCHAM, GREATER MANCHESTER, AS A HATE CRIME. A Muslim doctor was stabbed in the neck as he arrived at a mosque for evening prayers by attackers shouting "abusive comments". Dr Nasser Kurdy was approached from behind and knifed near the Altrincham Islamic Centre in Greater Manchester. Two men, aged 32 and 54, have been arrested.Police are treating the incident as a hate crime, reports the Manchester Evening News . Dr Kurdy was rushed to hospital but has since been discharged.A spokesman for the Altrincham & Hale Muslim Association said he was "very lucky". Colleague Dr Khalid Anis was with the victim at the time of the attack. "It could have been very, very serious." "He said he noticed someone cross the road and then somebody just attacked him from behind. "There were definitely abusive comments made - obviously he was in shock at the time, he had just been stabbed so the detai...

In Honour of Fela Anikulapo Kuti The annual festival in celebration of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti, 'Felabration', will hold on 9 October. Felabration is an annual festival which brings Nigerians from all walks of life together to celebrate the life of the late Afrobeat legend. The annual festival, marked on Fela's birthday since his death in 1997, is themed "The Prophecy". This year's edition also marks the 20th anniversary of Fela's death. The festival, which holds for a week, attracts thousands of Afro beat lovers and visitors from around the world to the New Africa Shrine. Fela's daughter Yeni Kuti instituted the Felabration festival. The festival will feature musical performances, art competition, Afrobeat Talent Hunt, Fela Debates, Symposium, Secondary Schools Debate and the Felabration Carnival. It has over the years attracted many high class musical acts around the world. With performance from the likes of Fela's first son,Femi Kuti...

A holidaymaker recently got home from France to find a 22-year-old Ethiopian illegal immigrant hiding in the boot of his Nissan. Dumbfounded Paul Edmunds, 59, was unpacking when he saw the man's trainers poking out from among his bags. Paul said: "He asked if he was in England. I said 'Yes — well Wales, actually.' He made a prayer gesture and smiled." The man, who crept into the van at Calais, France, was arrested in Caersws, Wales. Paul and wife Janet had stopped in the French port for a toilet break before taking the Eurotunnel shuttle back to Britain. But as Paul unpacked their Nissan Navara at home following a 4½ hour drive from Folkestone he spotted a strange pair of trainers. Businessman Paul said: "When I saw a face I asked 'Where do you come from, Calais?' He didn't speak English but was able to ask if he was in England. I asked him again where he was from and he said 'Africa'. He had a phone and was trying to contact someone here....

Pump-action rifles intercepted by the Nigeria Customs Service. Two out of the five men being prosecuted by the Federal Government for unlawful importation of 661 pump-action rifles into the country have indicated their intent to enter into plea bargain with the prosecution. The defendants – Mahmud Hassan, Oscar Okafor, Donatus Achinulo, Matthew Okoye, said to be at large, and Salihu Danjuma – had been arraigned by the Attorney General of the Federation on 14 June before the Federal High Court in Lagos. They had all pleaded not guilty to the eight charges pressed against them, while the trial judge, Justice Ayokunle Faji, refused their bail applications in view of the gravity of the charges levelled against them. The matter was subsequently adjourned till September 25 for trial. However, at the resumed proceedings on Monday, the second and third defendants, Oscar Okafor and Donatus Achinulo, respectively, who had changed their lawyers, indicated their intentions to change their plea fro...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has claimed its investigative team has been blocked from meeting with the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the United Kingdom. The ex-minister has been staying in the UK since 2015 when investigation into her tenure began. But EFCC stated that its efforts to interrogate her over the allegations had been abortive as her lawyer, John Binns of BCL Solicitors, refused to allow the commission's team of investigators, led by Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, to meet with her in the UK earlier in March this year. A detective with the commission, Mr. Rufai Zaki, who deposed to the EFCC's counter-affidavit, added that it was not yet possible to bring the former minister back to Nigeria as she was being investigated by the UK's Metropolitan Police for several other financial crimes, saying the probe had reached an advanced stage. In one of the nine counts, the anti-graft agency alleged that Alison-Maduek...

The Lagos State Government has finally completed the construction and equipment of the first DNA and Forensic Centre in West Africa.  This would go a long way in unraveling unresolved crimes and stemming new ones not only in the state but across the country. Previous administrations at different times attempted to put faces to huge records of unresolved crimes in Lagos State. From the Bola Tinubu era to the Babatunde Fashola period, the Lagos State Government had recognised the centrality of deoxyribo-nucleic acid (DNA) facility if the trend of unresolved crimes must end, not just in the metropolis, but also in the federation. But none of these administrations was able to put up a DNA centre to burst the cycle of unresolved crimes in the state. Concerned as it was then,the Fashola government came up with a plan to build a comprehensive forensic laboratory, which former Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Dr. Femi Hamzat then said, would cost N82 billion and was designed to serve...

LATE DAN'S BODY SEEN LYING NEXT TO THE PYTHON ABOVE A wildlife lover found dead at his home may have been killed by his pet snake, it is feared. Police said Dan Brandon, 31, was found unresponsive in his room with one of his pythons out of its cage nearby. Dan is said to have suffered "serious injuries". The death in Church Crookham, Hampshire, is being treated as non-suspicious but one line of inquiry is that the pet snake was involved. Pythons have killed humans before, but it is believed it would be the first time it has happened in Britain. And experts say it is unlikely as pythons generally only kill what they want to eat. Dan's social media profile was filled with pictures of him enjoying the company of his snakes. Several images feature a large Burmese python wrapped around Dan's body and neck. One friend commented: "You're mental!" "You do love a snake!" another added. In another photo, Dan is ...

The government of Kogi state has again come out with it's usual lies in politics to discredit yhe labour group of the state in covering one of it's failures. The State Government disagreeing with Labour unions over allegations of unpaid salaries, said Labour union leaders are out to "misinform the people for selfish reasons". Speaking to journalists at Lokoja on Sunday, the Director General on Media and Publicity to the Governor, Kingsley Fanwo urged workers to continue to go to their work places in order to serve the people of the state. He said, "Labour leaders in the state have been attempting to denigrate the integrity of the State Government by creating a false impression of non-payment of salaries despite our decision to publish all the payments to civil servants in the state in various media, including the state website. "We urge the organized Labour to rescind their decision and call off the ill-fated strike in the interest of the good people of the ...

Washington (CNN) The Trump administration has unveiled new travel restrictions on certain foreigners from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen as a replacement to a central portion of its controversial travel ban signed earlier this year. The new restrictions on travel vary by country and include a phased-in approach. "Making America Safe is my number one priority. We will not admit those into our country we cannot safely vet," President Donald Trump tweeted just after his administration released the details of the restrictions Sunday night. In a statement Sunday night, the White House called the new restrictions a "critical step toward establishing an immigration system that protects Americans' safety and security in an era of dangerous terrorism and transnational crime." "We cannot afford to continue the failed policies of the past, which present an unacceptable danger to our country," Trump said in the White House stat...

 * The strikes killed 17 ISIS militants and destroyed three vehicles  *The strikes were carried out by unmanned aircraft, US military officials told CNN The US military conducted airstrikes against ISIS fighters in Libya on Friday, the first time it has struck targets in the North African country since Donald Trump became President. "In coordination with Libya's Government of National Accord and aligned forces, U.S. forces conducted six precision airstrikes in Libya against an ISIS desert camp on Friday," US Africa Command which oversees US troops in the region, told CNN in a statement. The strikes killed 17 ISIS militants and destroyed three vehicles at the camp, located about 150 miles southeast of Sirte, the statement added. "The camp was used by ISIS to move fighters in and out of the country; stockpile weapons and equipment; and to plot and conduct attacks," Africa Command said in a later statement, adding that ISIS operatives in Libya have "been conne...