Turkey fires back at Syria, war may be in future
Border troops in the Hatay province fired off a mortar strike at Syria in response to a Syrian bomb which struck Turkish territory, the office of Hatay’s governor said in a statement.
The Syrian mortar landed just ten feet shy, but did not cause any casualties or damages. Since the first shell made it’s way across the Syrian border on Oct. 3, killing five civilians, Turkey has fired back for every mortar that has found it’s way into their territory.
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French President proposes banning homework
“Education is priority,” French President, François Hollande said in a speech at Paris’s Sorbonne University. “An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.”
According to a statement from the French Embassy, Hollande feels that homework should be done in school and causes inequality for students because wealthy students are more likely to have a better working environment and parents that can aide in the work. He has also pledged to add 60,000 teaching jobs in the next five years.
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Army intelligence analyst killed in Afghan attack
A CIA officer and a U.S. Army intelligence analyst were among those killed in a suicide bomb attack last weekend in Afghanistan, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Several Afghans were also killed in the attack on Saturday in Kandahar province. The NATO-led force has yet to determine whether it was the result of a insider attack, in which Afghan forces – including Taliban infiltrators – turn their weapons on allies. An investigation is ongoing.
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FBI foils New York Federal Reserve bomb plot
A Bangladeshi man was arrested Wednesday and charged with trying to detonate a 1,000-pound car bomb outside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a target he chose in a bid to disrupt the U.S. economy, authorities said.
Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 21, was taken into custody in a lower Manhattan hotel room after repeatedly using a cellphone to try to detonate material that he believed was a bomb in a van parked outside the New York Fed, officials said.
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