Colorado Apartment Complex Bans Weapons on Property

A Colorado apartment complex is taking some major heat after they informed residents that guns would no longer be allowed on the property.

On August 1, Oakwood Apartments in Castle Rock sent out a letter with new community policies.

As part of the new policies, residents will no longer be allowed to "display, use, or possess any firearms or weapons of any kind, anywhere on the property".

Residents have until October 1 to give notice and vacate their homes or to remove any banned objects from the complex.

If they do not comply, they have been threatened with random searches and forcible evictions.

Some are saying that this is a violation of their 2nd amendment rights, which guarantees the right to own firearms.

Concerns are also that the property's ban on weapons will encourage the complex as a place for robbers to target.

Ross Management Group, which runs the apartments, argues that the decision is legal as they are their private property and therefore can make the rules for it.

They had no comment about the concerns of robbery risk, and ended the conversation when asked if kitchen knives were considered weapons.

By Wednesday evening, the apartments had been ordered to stand down from their gun ban, by Douglas County, which owns the complex.

Fire Shuts Down Nairobi Airport

Early Wednesday morning, a fire broke out at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya.

The fire gutted the international wing of the airport.

Flights were diverted to any airport which could take them, as the airport was closed for over twelve hours.

By Wednesday afternoon, domestic and cargo flights were being allowed in, again.

Hopes are that international flights will resume on Thursday.

No injuries or deaths were reported, due to the fire.

Authorities are investigating what could have caused the fire, but at this point have no leads.

Yemen's Government Claims Thwarting of Al Qaeda Plot

Officials in Yemen claim that they have thwarted a major Al Qaeda plot.

According to the officials, they stopped plans to take major parts of the oil and gas industry, at Al-Dabbah.

Al Qaeda had gained dozens of Yemeni military uniforms, are were planning to use them to infiltrate the facilities and take the provincial capital.

Authorities also published a new list of Al Qaeda leaders and offered a reward of five million riyals for their capture.

The Yemeni government believes that this plot was the major one that put the US and other western governments into a scare which shut down embassies across the Muslim world.

4 Soldiers of Israel Injured in Explosion Along Border With Lebanon

Four Israeli soldiers were injured along the border with Lebanon, in an explosion.

It is unclear what exactly the extent of their injuries were.

Lebanon accused them of entering Lebanese territory and running into mines.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the soldiers were involved in defending Israel's borders.

UNIFIL, the UN force which is supposed to provide security in the region, is investigating the incident.

Bombing in Karachi Kills 11

Eleven people, including three children, were killed in Karachi, Pakistan.

A motorcycle bomb blew up as a crowd was leaving a soccer match.

Authorities believe that the target was the provincial minister, who had been attending the game.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Cow Causes Crash at Indonesia Airport

A cow caused an airplane crash in Indonesia.

An aircraft belonging to Lion Air was coming into land at Jalaluddin airport, when the pilot thought he saw dogs on the runway.

However, they turned out to be three cows.

One of the wheels came down on one of the cows, crushing it, and causing the plane to skid off the runway.

None of the one hundred and ten passengers, aboard the plane, were hurt.

The airport was closed for a time afterwards, but reopened once the runway was cleared and the plane towed to the airport.

Japan's Government Joins Fukushima Cleaning Efforts

The Japanese government has jumped in to find a way to stop water from leaking at the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government involvement.

He cited the emergency nature of the situation as well as pointed to the failures of Tepco in handling the matter.

Tepco has been working on repairing the plant, since it was damaged two and a half years ago, in an earthquake.
  
Until recently, they had been denying that there was any leak at all, but lately have given up trying to hide the fact.

Government officials say that as much as three hundred tons of radioactive water is reaching the Pacific Ocean, every day.

However, they do not believe it has been leaking that much for the entire two and a half years, stating that radiation levels would be much worse if that was the case.

It is unclear when exactly the leaking began and increased to such a degree, or what caused this to occur.