Submitted by Michaela Whitton via TheAntiMedia.org,
The number of people put to death across the globe in 2015 reached a 25-year high. The alarming surge in executions saw at least 1,634 people sentenced to death in 25 countries, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The figures exclude China, whose numbers remain a state secret despite the country’s title as the world’s top executioner.
Following a period of relative mass shooting calm over the past few weeks, moments ago reports indicate that there is an active shooter situation unfolding at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas which is on Lockdown. According to News4SA, there are reports that two people were shot and they are dead, although it has since clarified that according to The Bexar County Sheriff's Office reports the victims condition was not immediately known.
A 28-year-old student activist was hacked and shot to death by three motorcycle-riding assailants in Bangladesh’s capital, according to police. The attackers believed to be radical Islamists pounced on the secular blogger as he walked with a friend along the streets of Dhaka. Mail Online reports: The killing on Wednesday night follows a string of similar attacks last year, when at least five secular bloggers and publishers were killed, allegedly by radical Islamists.
One of the Brussels bombers who killed 32 people on March 22 had previously worked within the European Parliament six years earlier, an EU assembly spokesperson has confirmed. 25-year-old Najim Laachraoui worked as a cleaner in Parliament in 2009 and 2010, just a few years before helping suicide bombers in the Paris attacks last November and then blowing himself up at the Brussels airport attack a few months later. Curiously, Najim Laachraoui had also taken a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel shortly before the terrorist attacks.
The FBI have admitted that they created an entirely fake University in order to lure criminals who intended to obtain student or work visas illegally. The University of Northern New Jersey was set-up 2½ years years ago by federal authorities who used it to arrest 21 people on charges of conspiring to help 1,000 foreigners obtain illegal visas. Nypost.com reports: The defendants whose arrests were announced Tuesday knew the school was bogus, as did the foreigners, who pretended to be students there in order to stay in the U.S., authorities said.