WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Canada’s federal government and the provincial Manitoba government agreed Friday to spend tens of millions to help search a landfill for the remains of two slain Indigenous women. A sum of $20 million Canadian (US$14.7 million) from each government is to go toward a search of the privately owned Prairie Green landfill … Read more
HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwean opposition activist slain nearly two years ago was finally buried Saturday at an event marked by a low turnout and clashes between members of the main opposition party, highlighting its decline. Moreblessing Ali, 46, a member of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change, or CCC, was abducted in May 2022 … Read more
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Investigators believe suicide bombers likely carried out an attack on a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike, state media reported Thursday, as Iran grappled with its worst mass-casualty attack in decades and as the wider Mideast remains on edge. The report by the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Jamal Khashoggi’s widow, who went into hiding after The Washington Post columnist was murdered in 2018 by a Saudi assassination squad, has been granted political asylum in the United States. “I couldn’t really believe it,” Hanan Elatr said after reading the letter informing her of the decision. … Read more
MILAN — The father of a young woman whose murder galvanized Italian outrage against violence targeting women implored men during her funeral Tuesday in the northern city of Padua to be “agents of change” to a culture that often “undervalues the lives of women.” Outside, thousands of mourners rang bells and shook keys, part of … 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
Ecuadorian authorities say a seventh man accused in the assassination of a presidential candidate in August has been killed inside a prison Supporters of presidential candidate Luisa Gonzalez, of the Citizen’s Revolutionary Movement, attend a rally downtown in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Ecuador will hold a presidential runoff, Oct. 15. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) … Read more
A 5-year-old Kansas girl was sexually assaulted and killedafter neighbors say her mother kicked her out of their home. Mickel W. Cherry, 25, was arrested on charges of murder and rape of a victim less than 14 on Tuesday in connection to the death of 5-year-old Zoey Felix, local news outlet WIBW reported. A day earlier, … Read more
Authorities in Ecuador say the mayor of the nation’s third largest metropolis has been slain in a capturing that killed one different individual and wounded 4 extra, together with two suspected attackers QUITO, Ecuador — The mayor of Ecuador’s third largest metropolis was slain Sunday in a capturing that killed one different individual and wounded … Read more
NANTERRE, France — Hushed and visibly anguished, a whole lot of mourners from France’s Islamic neighborhood fashioned a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting throughout the nation. Underscoring the gravity of the disaster, President Emmanuel … Read more