❌

Normal view

There are new articles available, click to refresh the page.
Yesterday β€” 27 December 2024Main stream

US missile defense system used for first time in Israel to intercept attack from Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen

President Joe Biden placed the anti-missile system, along with about 100 US soldiers, in Israel to help defend the country following Iran’s Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack on the Jewish state.

Before yesterdayMain stream

Royal Caribbean halts travel to Manzanillo due to high murder rates and kidnappings

The State Department uses a four-level warning system which urges tourists to exercise caution during travel. The agency only advises travelers to avoid visiting a location when it issues a Level 4 warning.

Putin to question ousted Syrian President Assad about location of missing US journalist Austin Tice

"Does President Assad himself know what happened to this American citizen, a journalist who was doing his journalistic duty in a combat zone? Nevertheless, I promise that I will ask this question to those people who control the situation on the ground in Syria today."

Belgium grants sex workers maternity pay, pensions under historic new law: β€˜An incredible step forward’

"I had to work while I was nine months pregnant. I was having sex with clients one week before giving birth,'' said a Belgium sex worker named Sophie, lamenting conditions before the new law.

Laos hostel owner detained in methanol-tainted alcohol poisonings that killed six tourists

Employees of a Laotian hostel were detained after an American tourist and five others died from suspected methanol poisoning following a night of drinking tainted booze. The owner and manager of the Nana Backpacker Hostel in Vang Vieng were among a β€œnumber of people” being questioned by police as a sixth tourist – an Australian...

Pope Francis refuses glitzy burial β€” opts for wooden casket as he simplifies papal funeral rites

The 87-year-old pontiff – who turns 88 next month – enacted a new set of liturgical rites aimed at modernizing the Catholic Church that scraps lengthy, garish funeral practices his predecessors observed upon their deaths.

❌
❌