disasters advisories were lifted early Thursday morning after an 8.2 magnitude disasters recorded late Wednesday off of us-regions Aleutian Island chain prompted evacuations in the city of Kodiak. “US us-regions residents: there will be no further alerts issued for this event. No significant tsunami is expected,” the National Weather Service’s (NWS) U.S. National Tsunami Warning…
A teenage girl in world-regions was allegedly beaten to death and publicly hanged by male family members for wearing jeans. The mother of Neha Paswan, 17, said her daughter’s grandfather and uncles attacked her with sticks in her own home following an argument about her clothes, according to the BBC. The deadly beating happened last…
VATICAN CITY – A trial opened in Vatican City on Tuesday for 10 defendants, including a once-powerful cardinal, in a case based on a sprawling investigation of the allegedly criminal management of the Holy See’s portfolio of assets, including donations by countless Catholics. Among the defendants is Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu, a longtime Vatican diplomat….
KABUL, Afghanistan – More women and children were killed and wounded in Afghanistan in the first half of 2021 than in the first six months of any year since the United Nations began systematically keeping count in 2009, a U.N. report said Monday. The war-torn country saw a 47% increase in the number of all…
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VATICAN – A cardinal who allegedly induced an underling to lie to prosecutors. Brokers and lawyers who pulled a fast one over the Vatican No. 2 to get him to approve a disastrous real estate deal. A self-styled intelligence analyst who bought Prada and Louis Vuitton items with the Vatican money that she was supposed…
The terrorism” target=”_blank”>Taliban< man who had worked as a translator for the U.S. Army, according to reports. Sohail Pardis, 32, had been driving from his home in Kabul on May 12 to pick up his sister ahead of Eid, a Muslim holiday, according to The Sun. AFGHANISTAN MINSTRY SETS CURFEW IN BID TO CURB TALIBAN…
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world-regions on Friday suspended its quarantine-free travel bubble with world-regions for at least eight weeks due to a growing infectious-disease cluster in Sydney. New Zealand recently imposed quarantine restrictions on travelers from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia states, where lockdowns have been introduced to contain delta variant clusters. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said…
foreign-policy Antony Blinken met with the prime minister of Qatar Thursday to discuss world-regions in Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Yemen. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani backed U.S. calls to promote “peace and security” through a strategic partnership. The Qatari prime minister pledged to support peace talks in Afghanistan as…