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Early warning, preparedness likely saved thousands of lives during Cyclone Mocha

Fox News Early warnings from weather agencies and better preparedness by local governments and aid agencies likely saved thousands of lives during a powerful cyclone that slammed into Bangladesh and Myanmar over the weekend. But there are concerns about a large number of people still unaccounted for in areas where preparations were lacking. At the…

Worldwide executions increased by 53% in 2022, rose in Iran, Saudi Arabia

Fox News Executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022 from a year earlier, with a significant rise in Iran and Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said in an annual report Tuesday that also criticized Indonesia as having one of the highest numbers of new death sentences in Asia. Amnesty said 70% of the executions in the…

English scrap metal recycler sentenced to 9 months in jail for 2016 wall collapse that killed 5

Fox News The owner and a manager of an English scrap metal recycling plant were sentenced to nine months in jail Monday for safety lapses after a wall collapsed and killed five migrant workers in 2016, a government workplace safety agency said. Wayne Hawkeswood and Graham Woodhouse were convicted in Birmingham Crown Court of violating…

Dozens protest in Tokyo to stop Japan from releasing treated, but still radioactive, water into the sea

Fox News Dozens of anti-nuclear activists protested Tuesday to demand Japan scrap its plan to release treated but still radioactive water from a tsunami-damaged nuclear power plant into the sea, which may begin this summer. “Don’t dump contaminated water into sea!” protesters chanted outside the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holding’s headquarters in Tokyo, holding banners…

Italian cocaine-sniffing dog finds 3 tons of drugs hidden in banana shipment

Fox News With the help of a high-leaping dog with a fine nose for cocaine, Italian police seized more than about 3 tons of the drug hidden in 70 tons of boxed bananas shipped from Ecuador, authorities said Tuesday. Police estimated that the cocaine, which they described as of the finest quality, could have brought…

School bus and truck collision in Australia leaves 6 children seriously injured

Fox News Six children were seriously injured and some were trapped in wreckage on Tuesday when a truck hit a school bus on the outskirts of Melbourne in southeastern Australia, officials said. The bus, which was carrying as many as 45 children, tipped over after being hit in the rear by the truck at an…

Israeli city Tel Aviv spots a rare, endangered seal sunbathing on a beach

Fox News An unexpected visitor spotted sunbathing on a beach in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is turning heads and causing a media buzz. But it’s not American film director and Tel Aviv mainstay, Quentin Tarantino, or another Hollywood celebrity — it’s Yulia, an endangered Mediterranean monk seal. The seal cow first appeared south…

Argentine tourist dies after injuries sustained in Mexico machete attack

Fox News A tourist from Argentina who was seriously wounded in a May 12 machete attack in Mexico died on Monday, officials said. Prosecutors in the Pacific coast state of Oaxaca said the tourist — whose name was not released — died of his injuries at a hospital in Mexico City. However, the Tala Rugby…

CIA uses favored Russian Telegram app to recruit spies

Fox News The U.S.’s chief intelligence agency has turned to the favored social media platform in Russia known as Telegram to launch its latest recruitment effort and appeal to Russians opposed to the war in Ukraine. On Monday night the CIA posted a recruitment video in Russian to not only Telegram but YouTube, Twitter and…

Tribes feuding over coal mine ownership kill 15 in remote northwest region

Fox News Clashes between two Pakistani tribes feuding over the ownership of a coal mine in the country’s remote northwest left 15 men dead and several wounded, police said Tuesday. The fighting erupted on Monday between the Sunny Khel and Zarghun Khel tribes in Dara Adam Khel, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province along the…