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Leak suspect shared classified secrets with foreigners, prosecutors say

Washington Post The Justice Department, in a court filing ahead of Jack Teixeira’s next detention hearing, also says it found red flags in his Air Force record. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/17/leak-suspect-jack-teixeira/

Colombia plane crash: Four child survivors found in Amazon rainforest two weeks later

Fox News Four children missing after a plane crash in Colombia have been found alive two weeks later, the country’s president said Wednesday. Authorities and the military have searched the Colombia Amazon for the children, ages 13, nine, four and an 11-month-old baby and two other passengers. WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, RANGERS…

Former Bosnia wartime prison guard who settled in US faces federal charges

Fox News A former guard at a notorious prison camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina who used a fabricated story to obtain refugee status in the U.S. and settled in the Boston suburbs has been arrested on fraud and other charges, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. Kemal Mrndzic, 50, was living in Swampscott, about 13 miles from Boston, at…

Hamas calls on Palestinians to confront Israeli victory parade in Jerusalem

Fox News The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday called on Palestinians to confront a flag-waving parade planned by Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City. The comments by Hamas added to the already heightened tensions ahead of Thursday’s march and threatened to reignite fighting between Israel…

Four killed in attack on U.S. Embassy convoy in Nigeria

Washington Post The convoy was carrying nine Nigerian nationals: five U.S. Mission employees and four Nigeria Police Force members, the State Department said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/17/nigeria-convoy-attack-united-states-embassy/

Nearly 50 migrants kidnapped by gang in northern Mexico

Fox News A busload of about 50 migrants were kidnapped by a gang in northern Mexico in the latest of a series of mass abductions, though nine were later found, Mexico’s president and police said Wednesday. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said National Guard troops were searching for the migrants in an area around the…

Death toll in Malawi hippo attack up to 7, 17 still missing

Fox News The death toll has risen to seven after a hippopotamus charged into and capsized a canoe on a river in the southern African nation of Malawi. 1-YEAR-OLD DEAD, 23 MISSING AFTER MALAWI HIPPOPOTAMUS ATTACK Six bodies were recovered floating in the river on Wednesday, police said, following the incident on Monday. A 1-year-old…

Suspected deadly fungal infections linked to surgery in Mexico

Washington Post The CDC issued a health advisory and a travel advisory after five women developed meningitis following surgical procedures in the border city of Matamoros. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/05/17/fungal-infections-mexico-surgery/

Three protesters face death in Iran, in year of more than 200 executions

Washington Post Tehran is using capital punishment to crack down on and deter dissent, rights groups say, amid a spate of executions in 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/17/iran-protests-executions-prisoners/

Abortion pill at heart of Supreme Court ruling is approved in over 90 countries

Washington Post Legal wrangling over abortion and mifepristone — most recently in a federal appeals court — places the U.S. on a different trajectory from the rest of the world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/19/abortion-pill-mifepristone-global-approved/