Category: World News
Boy, 6, dead after lion mauling at Gaza zoo
Fox News A Palestinian boy was mauled to death by a lion in a private zoo in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the coastal territory’s police force, run by the militant Hamas group. OHIO ZEBRA BADLY MAULS MAN’S ARM, DEPUTIES PUT IT DOWN: ‘I THINK HE TORE MY ARM OFF’ Police officers said…
Read MoreUS says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December
Fox News The White House said Monday it now estimates that just since December Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties, including 20,000 killed, as Ukraine has rebuffed a heavy-assault by Russian forces in eastern Ukraine. RUSSIAN MISSILE BARRAGE RAINS DOWN ON KYIV AS UKRAINE PREPARES COUNTEROFFENSIVE In what has become a grinding war of attrition, the…
Read MoreFrom Tallahassee to Tuscany, a Florida teacher’s renaissance: ‘gracious and hospitable’
Fox News The Florentines made good on their promise to give Hope Carrasquilla a hero’s welcome to the Italian city because that’s how many here view her. They see a woman in faraway Florida having fallen on her sword for a subject Florence feels passionately about. Renaissance art. The Tallahassee principal was forced to resign earlier this…
Read More‘Hungry’ South Korean student finds banana artwork very appealing: report
Fox News A South Korean art student consumed a $120,000 piece of art that comprised a banana duct-taped to a wall because he was “hungry,” according to media reports. Noh Huyn-soo was filmed removing and peeling the fruit at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul in front of stunned onlookers, The Guardian reported. He…
Read MoreCanada contract accord ends strike for most public workers
Washington Post The Canadian government has reached a tentative contract agreement with its largest workers union, ending a 12-day strike by more than 120,000 public servants https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/01/canada-public-workers-strick-tentative-agreement-contract/12cccd3a-e850-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreBolivia to investigate late Spanish priest accused of abuse
Washington Post Bolivia’s top prosecutor is investigating a late Spanish priest who allegedly abused several minors in Bolivia dating back to the 1980s https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/01/bolivia-spanish-jesuit-priest-abuse/6326e90e-e851-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreToll rises from 103 to 110 in Kenya cult starvation deaths
Washington Post Kenyan officials say the number of deaths linked to a cult in the area on the country’s Indian Ocean coast has risen to from 103 to 110 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/01/cult-church-shakahola-kenya-africa-ruto-odinga-autopsies/2e5fb628-e84d-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreMexico’s Senate approves reform of mining laws, 17 bills signed into law
Fox News Mexico’s Senate has approved a wide-ranging reform of laws governing the mining industry, including a requirement that companies pay 5% of profits to local communities. The mining bill was among 18 pieces of legislation, some controversial, that were passed in a frenzied rush late Friday and early Saturday. The bills were approved with…
Read MoreUN food relief agency suspends aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region
Fox News The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers. The World Food Program is responsible for delivering food from the U.N. and other partners to Tigray, the center of…
Read MoreTaiwan’s president says her country is willing to deepen cooperation with United States to safeguard peace
Fox News Taiwan’s president told visiting ex-U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Monday that her country is willing to deepen cooperation with the U.S. and “other like-minded partners” to safeguard peace, as the self-governed island faces increasing military threats from China. President Tsai Ing-wen also expressed hopes to Bolton, a potential Republican presidential candidate…
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