Category: World News
Mexican volcano spews ash and smoke as authorities urge caution
Washington Post Popocatépetl, Mexico’s second largest volcano, has been spewing ash onto an area accustomed to such rumblings, but authorities are telling them to be cautions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/23/mexico-volcano-popocatepetl-warnings/
Read MoreRoman Catholic priest killed in Mexico; 9th under current administration
Fox News A Roman Catholic priest has been killed in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, the ninth killed during the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. The church’s Catholic Multimedia Center identified the priest as Rev. Javier García Villafaña, who had been assigned to the Capacho parish in Huandacareo just one month earlier.…
Read MoreCourt acquits German coronavirus denier of incitement over antisemitic remarks
Fox News A prominent critic of Germany’s pandemic restrictions who repeatedly spread false information about the coronavirus has been acquitted of incitement to hatred for comments about Jews and Israel. A regional court in the northern town of Ploen ruled Tuesday that Thai-German microbiologist Sucharit Bhakdi didn’t break the law when he described Israel as…
Read MoreMilitants attack Pakistan oil plant near Afghan border killing 6 troops and guards
Fox News Dozens of militants attacked an oil and gas plant on Tuesday in Pakistan’s remote northwest, near the border with Afghanistan, killing four security troops and two private guards, officials said. Oil production was temporarily suspended following the attack on the oil and gas extraction facility run by a multinational European company, MOL Pakistan…
Read MoreBare-chested climate activists in Rome smear themselves with mud to protest fossil fuel use, evoke flooding
Fox News A pair of bare-chested protesters smeared themselves with mud outside the Senate building in Rome on Tuesday to protest fossil fuel use and remind people of the dangers of flooding linked to climate change. Police quickly removed the two. Since last year, an activist group called Last Generation has staged numerous attention-grabbing events…
Read MoreTurkish strike kills 3 Yazidi militiamen, injures 3 others in northern Iraq
Fox News A Turkish strike in northern Iraq killed three Yazidi militiamen and wounded three others on Tuesday, regional officials said. A local official affiliated with the militia disputed that account, saying none of its fighters were killed, but that a shepherd died in the Turkish drone strike. According to the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdish regional…
Read More7 people arrested in Spain for allegedly racially abusing Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior
Fox News Seven people accused of racially abusing Real Madrid player Vinícius Júnior have been arrested in Spain, police said Tuesday. Three were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vinícius in a Spanish league match on Sunday. Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge…
Read MorePakistan’s Imran Khan presses legal battle in Islamabad court
Fox News Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday pressed his legal battle before a court in the capital, Islamabad, which granted him protection from arrest until early next month in several cases including terrorism charges for inciting violence. The development comes as authorities have been cracking down on the supporters of Khan, now…
Read MoreMalaysian authorities raid Swatch stores, seize Pride Collection watches, according to the Swiss watchmaker
Fox News Swiss watchmaker Swatch said Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores and confiscated 164 watches from its Pride Collection. It said Ministry of Home Affairs officials raided its outlets in various malls across Malaysia on May 13 and 14 and seized the watches because they “bore LGBT connotations.” The watches come in a…
Read More7 dead in Thailand after roof collapses at school
Fox News Seven people, including four children, died Monday when strong winds from a rainstorm caused a metal roof on a school’s activity center to collapse in northern Thailand, officials said Tuesday. The latest casualty was a 6-year-old boy who died late Monday night in a hospital after the collapse at the Wat Nern Por…
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