Roger Carstens, the Biden administration’s top official for the release of Americans detained abroad, is in Syria on a high-risk mission: making the first known face-to-face contact with the interim government and asking for help find missing American journalist Austin Tice. Carsten spoke to CBS News in an exclusive interview for “Face the Nation.”
At least two people were killed and dozens injured after a car crashed into a busy Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday. Authorities said it appeared to be a deliberate attack. The driver of the car was arrested, according to Magdeburg police confirmed. Saxony-Anhalt State Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff told a news conference in … Read more
Swedish police announced on Friday that a man had been shot dead in a parking lot in the town of Norrköping. Media reports identified the victim as rapper Gaboro, who is believed to have links to criminal gangs. A video purporting to show that the killing quickly spread on social networks. In the video, apparently … Read more
Seven inmates were killed in a riot at a southern Mexican prison when inmates resisting transfer to other prisons fought police with guns and knives, authorities said Thursday. Four police officers and six other detainees were injured during riots in the town of Villahermosa, the capital of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco. State Police … Read more
Two road accidents in southeastern Afghanistan killed a total of 50 people and injured 76, a government spokesperson said Thursday. One of them was a collision between a bus and an oil tanker on the Kabul-Kandahar highway on Wednesday evening, said Hafiz Omar, spokesperson for the governor of Ghazni province. The other, also late Wednesday … Read more
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Gisèle Pélicot’s ex-husband was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a French court on Thursday after admitting to drugging her for nearly a decade so he and dozens of men could rape her. 49 other men were also convicted of rape during the trial. Pelicot became a feminist icon after forcing a public trial … Read more
Southern Gaza Strip — In a rare moment of access to the war-ravaged Palestinian territory, CBS News on Wednesday visited a distribution center for critical aid just inside the Gaza Strip, near the Karem Shalom border crossing from Israel. THE humanitarian crisis in Gaza after more than a year of war between Israel and Hamas … Read more
THE Guinness World Records are known for shedding light on the most interesting, unique and even strange happenings in human nature around the world. 2024 was no exception. Earlier this year we talked about a toddler who became the Youngest male artist in Guinness World Records after his paintings were featured in an exhibition at … Read more
The return of two Boeing Starliner astronauts to the International Space Station is once again delayed, NASA says. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams traveled to the space station aboard Boeing’s Starliner in June for what was supposed to be an eight- to 10-day trip. They should return to Earth aboard a SpaceX capsule, but this … Read more