Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave BANGKOK — Nearly every morning since her son went missing in southern Israel, Buasri Jirachart, 50, visited the Buddhist temples near her home in northeast Thailand to pray for his release. He was one of several dozen Thai migrant workers taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7 … Read more
JERUSALEM — Plastic chairs as beds. Meals of bread and rice. Hours spent waiting for the bathroom. As former hostages return to Israel after seven weeks of Hamas captivity, information about the conditions of their confinement has emerged. The 58 hostages freed under a cease-fire deal over the past three days have largely stayed out … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave TEL AVIV — After weeks without news, followed by days of anticipation and then tense hours Friday when it seemed like anything could go wrong, it happened all at once. Around 6 p.m., a convoy of white International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) SUVs rolled toward … Read more
A police officer being investigated in the killing of a 17-year-old of North African origin that touched off riots around France was freed from jail Wednesday while the probe continues ByThe Associated Press November 15, 2023, 2:20 PM FILE – A demonstrator runs on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting … Read more
CANBERRA, Australia — Three murderers are among 81 foreigners recently released in Australia after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention in migrant centers was unconstitutional, the immigration minister said on Tuesday. The court hasn’t released the reasons behind its ruling last week that overturned a 2004 precedent that stateless people could be detained indefinitely. … Read more
Body camera footage shows deputies in rural Wisconsin working together to cut free a “massive” buck that got himself caught in barbed wire on Sunday, November 12. According to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office WI, the deer had been stuck in barbed wire around a tree “for the past two days.” The department wrote on … Read more
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is ready to step up to a microphone once she’s released from prison — but it won’t be for fame and attention, instead, she wants to help others who suffer like she once did. The infamous felon, who pled guilty to second-degree murder for the 2015 slaying of her mother, is ready … Read more
RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel escalated its bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip, the military said Tuesday, ahead of an expected ground invasion against Hamas militants that the U.S. fears could spark a wider conflict in the region, including attacks on American troops. The stepped-up attacks, and the rapidly rising death toll of thousands … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave President Biden told the American mother and daughter released by Hamas militants after 13 days in captivity that he was “just delighted” about their freedom and pledged to work toward the release of other U.S. hostages. During a call Friday, Biden told Judith Raanan, 59, and her … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Sasha Ariel was watching the news Friday night — as she has done almost constantly since her sister Karina was kidnapped by Hamas militants on Oct. 7 — when she finally heard the alert she’d been praying for: Hamas was releasing two hostages. For a … Read more