Two persons were murdered Saturday night in Houston after their automobile collided with an Amtrak train, officials said. The driver of the car was attempting to beat the train at a railroad crossing. The crash occurred at approximately 8 p.m. local time at Beaumont Highway and Van Hut Lane when the driver of the Chrysler … Read more
According to human rights officials, the Kremlin has resorted to recruiting youngsters to bolster its soldier ranks in eastern Ukraine. Moscow is reportedly recruiting from youth groups and conscripting 16-year-olds in an effort to replace the estimated 30,000 soldiers killed, injured, or captured thus far in the conflict. Following Russia’s invasion of eastern Ukraine in … Read more
Doctors in Sri Lanka report that hospitals are running out of crucial medications and supplies as the country’s economic situation intensifies. They fear a public health disaster if foreign assistance does not arrive quickly. “Day by day, resources are depleting. If we reach zero, I’m not sure what would happen,” Dr Gnanasekaram worries. As secretary … Read more
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi briefed a visiting US team on Egypt’s position on the Palestinian problem. El-Sisi stressed the importance of reaching a just and comprehensive solution that guarantees the Palestinian people’s rights under international law and creates opportunities for coexistence and cooperation among all the region’s peoples during a meeting with a US … Read more
Direct flights between the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv and Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh started on Sunday. Tel Aviv’s first direct trip to Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh took off on Sunday, Israel’s national carrier El-Al reported. Sun d’Or subsidiary flight 5193 departed Ben Gurion International Airport at 0715 GMT, the airline stated … Read more
Jordan’s King Abdullah II urged Israel on Sunday to “cease all unlawful and provocative acts” that aggravate the situation in occupied Jerusalem and to respect the current historical and legal position. His words come two days after almost 20 people were wounded in a series of events in and around Jerusalem’s sensitive Al-Aqsa Mosque. Israeli … Read more
Ukraine pledged Sunday to fight to the end in Mariupol after a Russian deadline to surrender remaining soldiers in the southeastern port city where Moscow is pursuing a big strategic triumph expired. “The city has not yet fallen,” Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said hours after Moscow’s ultimatum for fighters holed up and besieged in a … Read more
On the Poland-Belarus border, a massive queue of trucks has developed as Russian and Belarussian drivers attempt to exit the EU ahead of a sanctions deadline. The queue was expanded to 80 kilometers (60 miles) in the run-up to the Saturday deadline, with some vehicles held for up to 33 hours. The EU has barred … Read more
Two collared and microchipped canines were discovered shot to death in Texas, with one of the dogs apparently beheaded. Adrienne Madison of Montgomery County, Texas told KRIV-TV that her dog Murphy and her neighbor’s dog Diva were found shot to death on a railroad track after escaping through a breach in her property’s fence. Murphy, … Read more
Police nabbed a suspect Friday in an armed robbery of a Georgia gun range that killed the owner, his wife, and grandchild. Jacob Christian Muse, 21, of College Park, Georgia, was charged Friday with three charges of malice murder, according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. According to the statement, Muse was … Read more
According to Bloomberg, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich flew to Kyiv on Saturday in an attempt to revive peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, which have stalled more than seven weeks into the conflict. According to anonymous individuals acquainted with the meeting, Abramovich, an oligarch with links to Russian President Vladimir Putin, met with Ukrainian negotiators … Read more
Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of Russia’s 8th Army, was buried Saturday after being killed in action in Ukraine, Russian state media said, making him the eighth Russian general killed in Moscow’s invasion, assuming Ukrainian reports are genuine. As of the end of March, around 14 Russian generals and senior colonels had been reported … Read more
The Carnival Mardi Gras’s male passenger leapt overboard early Saturday morning, the cruise line and Coast Guard reported to USA TODAY. The ship was making its way back to its home port at Port Canaveral, in Orlando, Florida. The individual leaped off the ship while it was still around 55 miles east of Port Canaveral, … Read more
After a week of growing outrage and worries of greater economic losses, Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday rescinded his traffic-clogging immigration order that held up commercial vehicles at the US-Mexico border. The Republican governor rescinded his new rules requiring all commercial vehicles entering the United States from Mexico to undergo further inspections in an … Read more
Hundreds of people marched against a plan to shut one of the country’s most recognized women’s rights organizations on Saturday in multiple Turkish cities, including Istanbul and Ankara. “It is impossible to put an end to our struggle. We will not allow our association to be closed,” Fidan Ataselim, the secretary-general of We Will Stop … Read more
The United States has cleared a nearly $1 billion arms sale to Nigeria, after legislators blocked the agreement amid worries about probable Nigerian government human rights violations. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee placed a moratorium on the sale of 12 Bell AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters in July. The State … Read more
On Saturday, Shanghai reported a record number of symptomatic COVID-19 cases, while other regions around China tightened controls as the nation maintained its “dynamic clearing” strategy aimed at eliminating the highly transmissible Omicron strain. On Friday, the Zhengzhou Airport Economic Zone, a central Chinese industrial area that contains Apple Inc. supplier Foxconn, issued a 14-day … Read more
Sudan’s military commander, General Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, made a move toward easing tensions in the country on Friday, six months after a military coup. When asked about the country’s deteriorating economic and security conditions during a Ramadan meeting, the president responded: “We are going on a tough moment, and we must all present compromises … Read more
