friendly fire

Fire believed to be the work of an arsonist, destroyed a three-apartment concrete dwelling house at Tryall district in St Elizabeth last week, leaving an elderly woman homeless. Reports are that about 3:00 p.m., Attirella Gayle, an 83-year-old pensioner, was at home in Tryall with her 25-year-old grandson, ...

The term “friendly fire” came into public awareness during The Gulf War (1990-1991). As the American populace watched hostilities in real time for the first time, it became necessary to give a suitable name to such mishaps. Certainly, not new to military ventures, most friendly fire incidents happen in the fog ...

The Thomas Fire was one of the megafires that hit California last year, driving the Forest Service wildfire budget to more than $2.5 billion. California fires killed 45 people. Photos courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service. Wallow Fire. A view of the Wallow Fire is pictured in the distance seen along the U.S. Route ...

MADRID — Catalan separatists' third attempt to appoint a new leader since December's election came unstuck on Thursday, prolonging the political deadlock in the region. The four lawmakers from the radical-left CUP — the smallest of the three secessionist parties in the regional chamber — refused to ...

Hong Kong's leader faced a backlash from her own political allies on Wednesday for making a personal donation to the city's biggest opposition party, as four lawmakers were sworn in without the oath-taking drama that got their predecessors disqualified. Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor ...

A 20-year-old Israeli soldier died yesterday in a friendly fire incident at a military base in the country, the army announced. Sergeant Shachar Strug was killed by a bullet which was fired from the gun of his fellow soldiers; an investigation has been launched into the incident. Strug, from Unit 217 the ...

When the friendly fire feature was turned off in Fortnite Battle Royale, it wasn't difficult to surmise why but the user experience lead researcher for Epic Games set the record straight once and for all. The decision to remove this particular feature in-game was one of the ways the developers were trying to ...

One of the four suspects charged in what authorities have called a "friendly fire" shooting death pleaded no contest to third-degree murder on Tuesday. Demetric Milhouse, 23, stood before Circuit Judge Gary Bergosh and said it was in his best interest to plead no contest to a string of offenses related to ...

Epic Games' decision to get rid of the friendly fire feature in Fortnite: Battle Royale was completely driven by solving in-game toxicity. Ben Lewis-Evans, a user experience lead researcher at Epic Games who works on Fortnite, told Polygon that the team rolled out Fortnite with friendly fire on. They decided to ...