Category: World News
US government begins land evacuation of American civilians in Sudan: Official
Fox News The United States government has begun a land evacuation of American civilians who are in Sudan amid a growing civil conflict. A U.S. official told Fox News that there’s an ongoing effort to bus a large group of Americans to the Red Sea, where Port Sudan is located. It’s unclear how many Americans…
Read MoreNew surge of migrants strains U.S. capacity ahead of May 11 deadline
Washington Post Border Patrol facilities are stretched to capacity along the U.S.-Mexico border as the Biden administration plans to lift pandemic-era restrictions May 11 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/28/border-migrants-biden-title-42/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreChile, Peru discuss safe passage for stranded migrants
Washington Post Stranded for five days under the scorching desert sun alongside a highway, Venezuelan Rosmary Morales looks on helplessly at a wall of police officers blocking her passage into Peru https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/28/peru-chile-border-migrants-venezuela-corridor/a23b62c8-e608-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreMexico leader beats COVID, vows to end transparency agency
Washington Post Mexico’s president has returned to his morning press briefings after recovering from COVID-19, and he came out swinging https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/28/mexico-lopez-obrador-transparency-covid19/e50e66ec-e606-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreItaly returns 2,000-year-old grave marker, exported illegally, to Turkey
Fox News Italy on Friday returned to Turkish authorities a funerary stele, dating from the second century and carrying a loving inscription to the dead woman’s spouse, after investigation determined that it was illegally excavated from southeastern Turkey. Italy’s specialized Carabinieri paramilitary police art squad said it had determined after extensive investigation that the object…
Read MoreZimbabwe to introduce gold-backed digital currency
Fox News Zimbabwe will launch a digital currency next month by introducing “tokens” that are backed by gold reserves and can be transferred between people and businesses as a form of payment, the country’s central bank said Friday. The move is aimed at shoring up Zimbabwe’s faltering national currency, the Zimbabwe dollar, which is fast…
Read MoreAzeri protesters will end blockage of key road
Fox News Protesters who have blocked the road leading from Armenia to an ethnic Armenian region within Azerbaijan for four months said Friday that they will end their actions because Azerbaijan has established a checkpoint at the start of the road. The blockage of the so-called Lachin Corridor, which leads from the Armenian border to…
Read MoreBing censored more search results in China than did domestic rival platforms, new study finds
Fox News A new report found that Microsoft’s Bing search engine restricted search results more than any other platform among eight China-accessible platforms analyzed by the University of Toronto. “These findings call into question the ability of non-Chinese technology companies to better resist censorship demands than their Chinese counterparts,” the report from the university’s Citizen…
Read MoreExtremists kill 33 soldiers in latest Burkina Faso attack
Fox News A large number of Islamic extremists launched an attack on Burkina Faso’s military in the country’s east, killing 33 soldiers and wounding a dozen others, the army said Friday. The assault took place Thursday in the Gourma province town of Ouagarou, according to an army statement. “During particularly intense combat, the soldiers of…
Read More2 bodies found in collapsed dump site at Indonesia nickel plant
Fox News Two bodies have been recovered following the collapse of a nickel waste disposal site in Indonesia, in the latest of a series of deadly accidents at Chinese-owned nickel smelting plants on the Southeast Asian country’s Sulawesi island, officials said Friday. The victims were operating two dump trucks Thursday in the disposal area when…
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