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Mohammed Sami / EyeEm/Getty Images (SUDAN) — A second American has been killed in the violence in Sudan, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby confirmed on Wednesday. While Kirby did not name the victim, a family spokesperson identified him to ABC News as Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman, a doctor who was helping educate physicians in Sudan […]
An American Airlines flight headed to Phoenix was rerouted back to its departure at John Glenn Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, after a bird struck, April 23, 2023. — Marni Kallestad (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — An American Airlines flight returned to an airport in Ohio after a possible bird strike on Sunday morning, the Federal […]
JanValls/Urbanandsport/NurPhoto via Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — An American Airlines employee at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was killed in a tarmac incident Thursday, authorities said. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. local time, officials said. The airline employee was injured outside the terminal where aircraft park at their gates, the airport said in a statement. The […]
Toussaint and Imbert Family (NEW YORK) — After being held for ransom for nearly a month in Haiti, a Florida couple was released Thursday after negotiations with their kidnappers, the Haitian National Police and the couple’s family told ABC News. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and Abigail Toussaint, who were visiting relatives in Haiti, were kidnapped on March […]
Charles O’Rear via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States will face an uphill battle in any efforts it takes to free detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich — who has been imprisoned in Russia for over a week — because of the seriousness of the espionage charges against him and the fact […]
Toussaint and Imbert Family (TAMARAC, Fla.) — An American couple visiting Haiti is being held at ransom after being kidnapped from a bus nearly a week ago, according to their family. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Toussaint, of Tamarac, Florida, were in Haiti to see ailing relatives and attend a community festival when they […]
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger has been released, U.S. officials said Monday. Jeffery Woodke, a Christian humanitarian aid worker, was released on Monday after more than six years in captivity, the White House said. “I’m gratified & relieved to see the release of U.S. hostage Jeff Woodke […]
@FreetheNamazis/Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Siamak Namazi, a U.S. citizen who has been detained in Iran since 2015, has ended his seven-day hunger strike, according to a Monday news release. Namazi, 51, began the hunger strike on Jan. 16 to mark the seventh anniversary of a prisoner swap with Iran that freed five other Americans while he […]
AlpamayoPhoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two U.S. citizens and two permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in the plane crash in Nepal earlier this week, State Department spokesman Ned Price said during a briefing Wednesday. “We are deeply saddened to hear of the tragic Yeti Airlines crash over the weekend, which killed 72 people, […]
