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omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea on Wednesday said the U.S. army private who crossed the border in July had “expressed his willingness to seek refuge” in the secretive country after becoming disillusioned with American society. Pvt. Travis King, 23, had been deployed in South Korea and spent 47 days in a local jail […]
Russian Emergency Ministry/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A gas station in the Russian town of Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan, exploded on Monday evening, killing at least 25 and injuring dozens of others, local officials said. Sixty-six people were being treated for injuries at hospitals, with 10 in serious condition, the […]
A Sudanese officer speaks to civilians recruited by the army as they take part in a military training in the Kassinger area of Sudan’s Northern State on August 9, 2023. — AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Sudan is facing the risk of “major disease outbreaks,” with medics reporting “thousands of corpses” decomposing in the […]
Neda Sharghi via Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials said Thursday. Four of the five were released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison on Thursday, according to a lawyer for one of the detainees. The […]
RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images (QUITO, Ecuador) — One suspect in Villavicencio’s assassination is dead and six other suspects, said to be Colombian nationals, have been arrested, according to a press conference from Interior Minister Jose Serrano. The six suspects currently in custody are reported to have ties to organized crime, as the local government […]
Jose Antonio Caravaca/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After months of quiet negotiations, Iran and the U.S. have reached an agreement that would see five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained released from custody and allowed to leave the country, ABC News has learned. A lawyer representing one of the detainees tells ABC News that four […]
Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace on Feb. 16, 2023 in Paris. — Chesnot/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — There is “growing concern” for the safety of Niger’s democratically elected president who remains under house arrest amid an apparent coup there, according to the U.S. Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller. “We are greatly […]
Courtesy of Hesham Sallam (NEW YORK) — Scientists have identified a new species of ancient miniature whale, which is now thought to be the smallest known basilosaurid to ever exist. Remnants from the whale, named the Tutcetus rayanensis after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, were found in 2012 embedded in limestone rock in the Fayum […]
RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images (QUITO, Ecuador) — Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in Ecuador, whose campaign highlighted alleged connections between gangs and government officials, was assassinated at the end of a campaign rally in Quito on Wednesday. He was 59 years old and was one of nine candidates running for office. Villavicencio, who was […]
Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LAMPEDUSA, Italy) — Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told the deputy general secretary of the Red Cross. Four migrants told the Red Cross that on Thursday they left Sfax, Tunisia and were shipwrecked the next […]
