In Honduras she had run a stall selling pupusas, a local tortilla, but been forced to shut down after being extorted by street gangs. "If you don’t pay them they kill you," said the woman, drawing a finger slowly across her throat. "It’s like a tax of war, money to bandits, and you can’t not…
A 30-year old woman blew herself up in the centre of the Tunisian capital Tunis on Monday, wounding nine people including eight police in what the Interior Ministry called a "terrorist explosion". Witnesses described a blast on the central Habib Bourguiba avenue where hundreds of police later cordoned off an area near the capital’s…
The US has called for a ceasefire in Yemen within 30 days followed by UN-brokered peace talks, sparking guarded hopes for a breakthrough in the international effort to end the country’s disastrous three-year war. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, and Jim Mattis, the US defence secretary, both said on they wanted to…
Battlezone comes out on Nintendo Switch this summer, developer Rebellion has announced. The tank shooter came out as a PlayStation VR launch title before launching on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Battlezone Gold Edition launches 1st May on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and it’s fully playable with or without a VR headset. The…
Call of Duty: WW2 got a big new Saint Patrick’s Day-themed update last night – and it adds an undead leprechaun who spawns on the map. The Leprechaun Hunt mosh pit is a featured competitive multiplayer playlist that sees the little leprechaun appear every now and then with a cackle of laughter. If you manage…
The European Union recalled its ambassador to Tanzania on Monday as police plans to hunt down and jail homosexuals in the country’s largest city prompted international outrage. A 17-member committee charged with identifying and locating gay men in Dar es Salaam is due to begin work this week after it began collecting names of possible…
Click:how many screws to attach metal roofing per sheet At least 18 people were killed and 171 others injured on Sunday when one of Taiwan’s newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, officials said. The Puyuma express train was carrying more than 366 passengers from a suburb of Taipei in the north…
Valve has published an update on its range of Steam Machine branded third-party PCs, prompted by recent reports the initiative was dead in the water. To be fair, these reports were prompted by Valve itself – specifically, by the company’s recent, quiet removal of its Steam Machine category from Steam’s front page. Steam users were…
The head of a French gay rights group suffered a broken nose and insults on a Paris street in what he called a shocking homophobic attack. Guillaume Melanie, president of the Urgence Homophobie association which helps victims of LGBT violence around the world, said he was attacked as he was leaving a restaurant with a group of…
President Donald Trump warned the world on Monday that the United States intended to expand its nuclear arsenal if Russia and China continued to build up their own stockpiles. Speaking to reporters at the White House before leaving for a campaign rally in Nevada, Mr Trump repeated his accusation that Russia is violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear…