Protesters marched in France on Wednesday evening against the war in Gaza, in the middle of Thursday’s football match between the French national team and Israel. Although the march took place peacefully, tensions are high following last week’s violence outside a match in Amsterdam.
A German football club is leaving X due to increasing hate speech and misinformation on the social media platform that it says could harm the country’s early elections. FC St. Pauli announced the move on Thursday, saying billionaire owner Elon Musk had turned the platform into a “hate machine” since taking over the company in … Read more
Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners in conflict with South African authorities over illegal mining activities were reported sick and growing weak on Thursday inside an abandoned mine shaft. South African police confirm that the partially decomposed body of a miner was brought to the surface from inside the Stilfontein mine in the country’s North … Read more
Italy and Norway quickly mobilized jets after Russian planes were spotted over the Baltic Sea and along the Norwegian coast on Tuesday. The Italian Air Force intercepted a Russian Coot-A aircraft over the Baltic Sea, according to NATO’s Allied Air Command. said in a post on social media. Norwegian Air Force F-35s have identified several … Read more
Tropical Storm Sara formed in the Caribbean on Thursday, becoming the 18th named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. The system, previously called Tropical Depression 19, developed in the Western Caribbean earlier this week and intensified as it moved west toward Central America. Sara experienced winds of 40 mph and is located about 50 … Read more
Paris — Security forces were on alert Thursday in Paris ahead of a soccer match between the French national soccer team and the visiting Israeli team. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged demonstrations in the city on Wednesday evening, and there are fears of a possible repeat of last week’s violence and Anti-Semitic attacks on Israeli football fans … Read more
Two Somali pirates sentenced to 30 years in prison for kidnapping American journalist Michael Scott Moore and held him hostage for 977 days, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Moore, a freelance journalist, traveled to Somalia in 2012 to study piracy and the country’s economy. On January 21, he was kidnapped by several heavily armed men and … Read more
A man who failed to enter Brazil’s Supreme Court killed himself Wednesday in explosions outside the building, forcing judges and staff to evacuate, authorities said. The two loud explosions were heard around 7:30 p.m. after the end of the day’s session and all judges and staff left the building unharmed, Brazil’s Supreme Court said in … Read more
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital kyiv on Wednesday with a sophisticated combination of missiles and drones for the first time in 73 days, authorities reported, as the Pentagon said most North Korean troops had been sent to help. Moscow’s war effort were fighting to drive the Ukrainian army from Russian soil, in … Read more
In 1965, a Norwegian woman gave birth to a baby girl in a private hospital. Seven days later, she returned home with a baby. When the baby developed dark curls that made her look different from herself, Karen Rafteseth Dokken assumed she simply took after her husband’s mother. It took almost six decades to discover … Read more