New K-pop group BabyMonster will debut with one less member than expected — YG Entertainment just announced Ahyeon has left the ensemble to focus on her well-being. The label addressed the news in a press release Wednesday … saying, “Although we are saddened to be unable to introduce Ahyeon as a member of BabyMonster, we … Read more
Syrian pro-government media and an opposition war monitor say the Islamic State group ambushed pro-government militiamen in an overnight attack in the country’s east, killing at least 21 fighters ByKAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press November 8, 2023, 6:55 AM This is a locator map for Syria with its capital, Damascus. (AP Photo) The Associated Press BEIRUT … Read more
BEIRUT — When the Lebanese militia Hezbollah announced last week that its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, would deliver his first public speech since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, much of the region held its breath. Would Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the Arab world’s most powerful paramilitary force, continue its limited exchanges of fire with Israel or throw … Read more
INDIANAPOLIS — IMPD officers arrested a woman, who police labeled a “terrorist,” after she drove her car into a building in what she described as a planned attack on the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge. Ruba Almaghtheh, 34, was arrested on a preliminary charge of intimidation which is a level 5 felony if … Read more
A Ugandan military spokesperson says troops have captured a commander of an extremist group whose fighters are accused of killing two tourists last month ByRODNEY MUHUMUZA Associated Press November 1, 2023, 10:40 AM KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan military spokesperson says troops have captured a commander of an extremist group whose fighters are accused of … Read more
An organiser of a Black Lives Matter protest used her profile to raise money for charity she then spent it on herself, a judge said as she was jailed for two and a half years. Xahra Saleem, now aged 23, gained a high public profile as a member of the BLM march in Bristol in … Read more
As war progresses between Israel and Gaza, the battle is raising the specter of a wider regional conflict in the Middle East. Whether the militant group Hezbollah — which operates in Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbor — will become involved, opening a second front of the war, is a central question. Hezbollah and Israel, longtime enemies, … Read more
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an explosion in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least four people ByThe Associated Press October 28, 2023, 3:08 AM An Afghan man removes the burnt shoes in the site of an explosion in a sports club, in the west of Kabul, Afghanistan, … Read more
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled Thursday a new advisory body dedicated to developing consensus around the risks posed by artificial intelligence and how international cooperation can help meet those challenges. While the body will have little power itself, its recommendations could decide the form and function of a U.N. agency for the governance of AI, … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Bruno Plácido, a well-known leader of a civilian “self-defense” group, was shot to death Tuesday in southern Mexico, eliminating one of the last true chiefs of the country’s armed vigiliante movements that sprang up a decade ago. Vigilante squads in other parts of southern and western Mexico still call themselves “self-defense” groups, … Read more