Category: World News
Tunisian Islamist leader, ex-parliament speaker, detained after police search
Fox News Influential Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi was detained Monday after a police search, according to his lawyer, in a move denounced by his supporters as a stepped-up effort by the president to quash Tunisia’s opposition. The move against the 81-year-old former parliament speaker comes amid growing social tensions and deepening economic troubles in…
Read MoreTracking the Chemicals in the East Palestine, Ohio, Train Derailment and Fire
New York Times Tankers of vinyl chloride were going halfway across the country, government records show, a trip highlighting the risks of transporting chemicals as plastics production grows. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/17/climate/train-fire-palestine-plastics-pvc.html
Read MoreUgandan finance minister charged in scandal implicating 22 top officials
Fox News Ugandan prosecutors on Monday criminally charged a second government minister with corruption-related offenses in a scandal stemming from the diversion of roofing sheets that should have been distributed to vulnerable people. Amos Lugoloobi, the state minister for finance in charge of planning, pleaded not guilty to the charges when he was arraigned in…
Read More3 Americans missing after leaving Mexico on sailboat
Washington Post The U.S. Coast Guard is asking for help in a search for three experienced sailors who were supposed to stop in Cabo on a trip to San Diego. https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2023/04/17/sailboat-missing-mexico-san-diego/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreChina to conduct ‘major military activity’ in Yellow Sea amid heightened tensions in region
Fox News China is reportedly planning to conduct a “major military activity” in the Yellow Sea this week amid heightened tensions in the region. China’s Maritime Safety Administration said Monday that military operations will take place in the Yellow Sea on Monday between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. local time, without disclosing further information. The…
Read MoreFormer politician known for feces protest killed in South Africa
Fox News A former politician who gained notoriety in South Africa for dumping human feces in public places as a protest against the living conditions in some of the country’s poorest townships was fatally shot Monday while meeting with a group of homeless people, police said. Loyiso Nkohla was killed by unknown gunmen, who fled…
Read MoreTunisian Islamist leader Ghannouchi detained amid tensions
Washington Post A lawyer for the Tunisian Islamist leader Rached Ghannouchi says he has been detained after a police search https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/tunisia-islam-ghannouchi-kais-saied/a118dcec-dd64-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreCBC ‘pausing’ Twitter after ‘government-funded media’ label
Washington Post The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation says it is pausing Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped CBC’s account with a label the public broadcaster says is intended to undermine its credibility https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/cbc-canada-twitter-pause-musk-government-funded/ac68c042-dd61-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreKilling of jailed lawmaker on live TV puts spotlight on India’s extrajudicial violence
Washington Post Assassins posing as journalists killed Atiq Ahmed, 60, a mobster-turned-lawmaker, and his brother Ashraf Ahmed as they answered questions on live TV. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/atiq-ahmed-killed-india-violence-hindu-nationalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIsrael president urges unity on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Fox News Israel’s president appealed for national unity as the country marked the beginning of Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday after months of mass protests that have roiled the nation. Yom Hashoah, the day Israel observes as a memorial for the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies in the Holocaust, is…
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