Russia used an Iranian air base to launch air strikes in Syria for a second day running on Wednesday, rejecting U.S. suggestions its co-operation with Tehran might violate a U.N. resolution. Russia’s Defence Ministry said that SU-34 fighter bombers flying from Iran’s Hamadan air base had...
Police on Tuesday arrested an armed 31-year-old German man who boasted during a sting operation that he had supplied the Glock 17 pistol used by a gunman who killed nine people in Munich on July 22, the Frankfurt state prosecutor said in a statement. Authorities arrested...
THIRTEEN inmates at Half-Way-Tree Police lock-up, who are accused of assaulting three police officers and damaging fixtures inside their cell, were yesterday remanded when they appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court. They have been identified as Courtney Duhaney, Shamar Bennett, Christopher Robertson, Rohan...
After a mishap with an Island Safari Tour vehicle on the Valley Road on Tuesday, nine tourists including six Americans and three Germans, were treated in hospital for related injuries. An anonymous source told OBSERVER media yesterday that the vehicle was attempting to overtake a tractor,...
Climatologist at the Antigua & Barbuda Meteorological Services Dale Destin said more named storms are expected than had been previously forecast, as the region enters the more active portion of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Yesterday, Destin told OBSERVER media that the forecast has now been...