PARIS — Judges will decide Sunday whether about 300 Indian citizens, suspected of being victims of human trafficking, should continue to be sequestered in a small French airport. En route to Central America, the passengers have been held at Vatry airport — in Champagne country — since Thursday after a dramatic police operation prompted by … Read more
A worker heats the seal of a joint between two segments of pipe during construction of a section of an interconnector gas pipeline, linking the gas networks of Bulgaria and Serbia, on the outskirts of Sofia, Bulgaria, on Friday, Feb.24, 2023. Bulgaria has begun work on a new pipeline to neighboring Serbia that will enable … Read more
LUSAKA, Zambia — A man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain, rescuers said Wednesday. The 49-year-old survivor was rescued Tuesday night, according to a statement by Zambia’s Disaster Management and Mitigation Unit. He told rescuers he … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave More than 100 hostages held in the Gaza Strip have been released since they were taken in the cross-border Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Estimates for the total number of hostages seized in the attack that left at least 1,200 people dead in Israel have shifted … Read more
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie’s adopted son Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt humiliates father in social media post Brad Pitt plans to remain silent as Angelina Jolie uses their kids to break him Brad Pitt has no intention to react to his son adopted son, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt’s post in which he called him a “f*****g awful human … Read more
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Health officials said 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” were transferred safely Sunday from Gaza ‘s main hospital and will go to Egypt, while over 250 patients with severely infected wounds and other urgent conditions remained stranded days after Israeli forces entered the compound to look for Hamas operations … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave China’s leader Xi Jinping seemed to have a lot to smile about on Wednesday night. He had more than four hours of dialogue with President Biden, who described the meeting as among the “most productive and constructive” sit-downs the two had ever had. Earlier, the American president … Read more
LUCKNOW, India — Forty-one workers remained trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day Saturday as a new drilling machine arrived on site to replace the damaged one. The nature of the exceptionally hard rock formation in the area coupled with the clearing of debris damaged the original machine and … Read more
MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s ruling party on Saturday named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City. But after ruling out the most popular candidate for the capital, questions remain about whether the party can avoid desertions. For the moment, former capital police chief Omar García Harfuch — who won polls on … 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