Prince Andrew’s military affiliations and royal patronages are being returned to Queen Elizabeth II at her behest in the wake of his ongoing legal battle with Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre. On Thursday, Buckingham Palace confirmed in a statement sent to Fox News that the reigning monarch, 95, agreed to accept the returned accolades. […]
Mexican authorities detained 252,256 migrants from January to November of 2021, breaking the country’s yearly record for migrant detentions. The statistics, released this month by Mexico’s interior secretary, show a 206 percent increase in migrant detentions from the 82,379 migrants detained in 2020. The detention numbers from 2020 are an outlier, as the coronavirus pandemic […]
India’s government has refused to renew the license of the Missionaries of Charity, an organization founded in the 1950s by the late Mother Teresa, and it blocked the nonprofit from accepting donations from foreign places to use for its humanitarian work. No reason has been given about the government’s refusal, carried out under India’s Foreign […]
Attorney Pat Harris, who is representing Scott Peterson — a California man convicted in 2004 of murdering his wife, Laci Peterson, and their unborn son on Dec. 24, 2002 — claimed on Thursday that new evidence will exonerate his client. Harris’ comments came after Peterson was resentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after […]
SHAIDAI, Afghanistan — Bashful, with long locks of rust-colored hair dyed with henna, Benazir fidgets with a handful of gravel when the topic of her marriage comes up. She looks down at the ground and buries her head in her knees when she is asked whether she knows she has been promised to another family […]
Satellite images captured by a Colorado-based company show China has built mock-ups of a pair of U.S. Navy ships for possible target practice for a future naval clash as tensions have risen between the two countries, the Associated Press reported. The images were captured by satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies on Sunday and show the outlines of a […]
The U.S. expressed alarm on Monday over an apparent military coup in Sudan, shortly after the Biden administration’s special envoy for the Horn of Africa was in the country encouraging cooperation between civilian and military leaders of Khartoum’s transitional government. Thousands of protesters took to the streets after reports emerged that the country’s Prime Minister […]
The Israeli Air Force has reportedly been ordered to resume training for a possible strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities. The Times of Israel, citing a report from Channel 12 news in Israel, said money has already been set aside for the training. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi is said to have told […]
In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory. Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, tweeted an unfounded claim that Covid-19 could have […]
RIO DE JANEIRO — Police in Rio de Janeiro said Wednesday they had found a haul of Nazi memorabilia and weapons worth an estimated $3.5 million at the home of a Brazilian man suspected of raping a minor. Rio’s civil police said they found more than 1,000 items at the home of the 58-year-old unnamed […]
PARIS — One of France’s biggest unsolved criminal cases appears to have been cracked and the decades-long hunt for a suspect in at least six rapes and four killings during the 1980s and 1990s led to a former police officer. Prosecutors announced late Thursday that DNA from a 59-year-old retired officer corresponded to genetic traces […]
Israeli agents killed Iran’s top nuclear scientist late last year using a remote-controlled machine gun and artificial intelligence, according to a report from The New York Times. Iranian intelligence knew an attack was likely against Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but major breaches of security protocols enabled the assassination, sourced told the Times. On the day of the […]
