A suspected gas explosion destroyed two homes and injured multiple people in Pennsylvania just hours after ringing in the New Year on Sunday. Two homes were completely destroyed in the blast, while others nearby suffered shattered windows, footage from the scene shows. The blast sent at least five people to the hospital, including a 65-year-old … Read more
Russia on Saturday fired 20 cruise missiles at Ukraine as civilians looked to welcome in the New Year, resulting in the death of at least one and dozens injured. Ukraine’s air defenses shot down 12 of the 20 missiles launched using Tu-95ms strategic bombers positioned in the Caspian Sea along with ground-based missile systems Commander-in-Chief of … Read more
Comment on this story Comment MITROVICA, Kosovo — Serbs on Tuesday erected more roadblocks in northern Kosovo and defied international demands to remove those placed earlier, a day after Serbia put its troops near the border on a high level of combat readiness. The new barriers, made of heavily loaded trucks, were put up overnight … Read more
CNN — Three foreign aid groups said Sunday that they were moving to temporarily suspend their operations in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred female employees of non-governmental organizations from coming to work. “We cannot effectively reach children, women and men in desperate need in Afghanistan without our female staff,” aid organizations Save the Children, Norwegian … Read more
The congressional panel probing the Jan 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol released its final report late on Thursday, outlining its case that former US president Donald Trump should face criminal charges of inciting the deadly riot. The House of Representatives Select Committee also made public the transcripts of a number of its interviews … Read more
Business & Finance 22 December 2022, 6:13 pm. 1 minute Reuters was first to report that popular short-video app TikTok is offering to operate more of its business at arm’s length and subject it to outside scrutiny as it tries to convince the U.S. government to allow it to remain under the ownership of Chinese … Read more
Activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) 2022 Meeting on September 20, 2022, in New York City. — AFP Pakistan’s Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai Wednesday slammed the Afghan Taliban-run administration’s decision to ban female students from tertiary education. Hundreds of young women were stopped by armed guards … Read more
Authorities are trying to determine if driver impairment led to a car crash in Gilbert that left the son of a Pinal County sheriff dead at the scene along with an infant. Gilbert police identified the victims as 22-year-old Cooper Lamb and his 1-year-old daughter. Pinal County authorities said Cooper Lamb was the son of … Read more
Missing person Ken DeLand Jr. has been found and is reunited with his mother in Lyon, France as he prepares for repatriation. DeLand, the upstate New York college student who had been missing in France since last month, was found to be alive in Spain nearly three weeks later after spotting himself in media reports, … Read more
Comment on this story Comment NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia has not yet fallen into famine but several parts of the country are in danger of it in the coming months, according to a new food security report on the Horn of Africa’s worst drought in decades. The report released Tuesday by United Nations and other … Read more