Year: 2023

Despite admitting to lying about significant parts of his resume, Representative George Santos was officially sworn in on Saturday morning, but many of his constituents are calling on the Republican to step down. George Santos, the 34-year-old Republican accused of lying about large swaths of his background and accomplishments, was sworn in as a member […]

An art teacher at a suburban New Jersey school is facing felony charges after a shocking overdose in a classroom of students. The Westfield Police Department said it happened at Roosevelt Intermediate School. 57-year-old Frank Thompson was found unconscious and unresponsive on the floor of his second-floor classroom just after 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, […]

Mali leader pardons Ivorian soldiers, suspends 46 prison sentences Mali’s junta leader has pardoned all 49 Ivorian soldiers whose arrest in July triggered a bitter diplomatic row, a government spokesman said, just a week after the courts sentenced them. “Colonel Assimi Goita… granted a pardon with full remission of sentences to the 49 Ivorians convicted […]

The United States on Friday issued new sanctions targeting suppliers of Iranian drones that Washington said have been used to target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine during the conflict with Russia. The US Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions on six executives and board members of Qods Aviation Industries (QAI), also known as […]

Iranian authorities have arrested a journalist who published interviews with families of death row inmates sentenced in connection with nationwide protests, the reformist daily Etemad said Friday. Fourteen Iranians have been sentenced to death in connection with the unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on September 16. The 22-year-old Iranian Kurd had been […]

Saudi Arabia’s first female international referee, Anoud al-Asmari, has been appointed by FIFA in a week of football triumphs for the Kingdom. Al-Asmari was appointed by the international football body on Thursday, less than a year after the debut of Saudi Arabia’s first women’s national team. “I am happy to be the first Saudi female […]

Kenyan police have discovered the body of prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner Edwin Chiloba stuffed inside a metal box in the west of the country, according to local media sources. Motorbike taxi riders alerted police after they saw the box dumped by the roadside from a vehicle with a concealed number plate, The Standard and The […]

New York lawmakers will consider legalizing adult possession and use of certain natural plant or fungus-based hallucinogens in this year’s legislative session. Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal (D-Manhattan) is sponsoring the legislation. The bill would “legalize the possession, use, cultivation and gifting or exchange of certain naturally occurring substances while offering protections to adults who may choose […]

The NYPD is investigating the stabbing death of a woman at an East Harlem apartment complex. Police responded to a 911 call at 435 E. 102nd St. at around 9:45 a.m. on Thursday. They found 45-year-old Lisa Epton unconscious and unresponsive lying face down on the kitchen floor. She had a stab wound to her […]

The New York City Police Department has identified a man it is searching for in connection with an anti-Semitic attack in Central Park that left a 63-year-old man with a chipped tooth and a broken hand. The man is 32-year-old Perin Jacobchuk. The incident happened Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022, at around 7:30 p.m. near the […]

In an effort to tackle environmental pollution, Angolan President João Lourenço has set up a task force to draft a national legal plan to ban plastic. In a presidential decree published in the Jornal de Angola, João Lourenço explained that there are “worrying levels of pollution resulting from the use of plastic in general”. The […]

Dubai set out a 32 trillion-dirham ($8.7 trillion) economic plan on Wednesday that includes doubling foreign trade and investment over the next decade to boost its standing as a global financial hub. The emirate, part of the United Arab Emirates’ federation, is the Middle East’s business and finance center. It’s already been deepening trade routes […]

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country’s north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday. The contract would be signed with Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), officials told a news conference in Kabul. It will be […]

Ukraine’s military estimated on Thursday that 800 Russian soldiers were killed in the past day, mostly in fighting in the eastern Donetsk region, while Western allies pledged supplies of armored battle vehicles but not the tanks Ukraine wants. Giving its regular morning roundup of the fighting, Ukraine’s military said Russian forces were focused on an […]

United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al Safadi have condemned the latest developments at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound as a “violation of international law.” Israel’s new far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the al-Aqsa mosque compound on Tuesday, a site revered by Jews, […]

Cristiano Ronaldo said he turned down offers from clubs in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and the US to join Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr, where he hopes to use his experience to develop the sport in the country. “In Europe, my work is done,” he said during a press conference at the Mrsool Park Stadium in Riyadh […]

Russia is planning to launch a long-term campaign of attacks against Ukraine using Iranian-made drones in an effort to demoralize and “exhaust” the war-weary country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, citing intelligence reports. During his nightly address on Monday in Kyiv, the Ukrainian president said he received intelligence indicating that the attacks would be carried […]

Tanzania’s president Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, in an overture to political rivals seeking the restoration of democratic traditions. “According to our laws, it is the right of political parties to hold their public meetings… my presence today in front of you is […]