PERUVIAN COURT SENTENCES RETIRED SOLDIERS TO PRISON IN CONNECTION WITH RAPING RURAL WOMEN, GIRLS IN 1980s
Ten retired soldiers were sentenced to up to 12 years in jail by a Peruvian court on Wednesday for sexually assaulting nine rural women and...
RAMAPHOSA SWORN IN FOR SECOND TERM AS SOUTH AFRICA’S PRESIDENT
On Wednesday, Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, took the oath of office for a second term in full in Pretoria, following the ANC's...
NEWS: DEADLY FIRE BREAKS OUT AT CHAD ARMY AMMUNITION DEPOT
Agency Report The capital of Chad, N'Djamena, saw a fatal fire break out at a sizable military ammunition storage that sent enormous explosions into the...
WORLD NEWS: BIDEN SEEKS TO RELAX VISA RULES IN WAKE OF CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSERS
Agency Report President Joe Biden announced Tuesday a new potential citizenship path for immigrants married to US nationals, balancing a recent crackdown on illegal...
AT LEAST FOUR DEAD, OVER A DOZEN MISSING AS EXTREME WEATHER HITS CHINA
At least four people were killed when record rains hit parts of southern China, state media reported Tuesday, while more than a dozen were missing...
NEWS UPDATE: EIGHT DEAD, DOZENS INJURED AS BUS CATCHES FIRE IN ZIMBABWE
Eight people died and dozens were injured in Zimbabwe when a bus carrying churchgoers caught fire on its way back from an annual gathering, police...
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT, PUTIN TO TRAVEL TO NORTH KOREA FOR ‘FRIENDLY’ VISIT
Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to North Korea on Tuesday for a “friendly” visit, the Kremlin announced, as the West suspects Pyongyang of supplying...
SEVEN DEAD AS PASSENGER, GOODS TRAINS COLLIDE IN INDIA
Seven people were killed when an express passenger train and a goods train collided Monday in India’s West Bengal state, derailing three passenger carriages, police...
NEWS: EIGHT DIE FROM SUFFOCATION IN REFRIGERATED TRUCK IN CHINA
Eight people died after suffocating in a refrigerated truck in central China’s Henan province, investigators said. In a statement released Sunday, a local investigative team...
UPDATE: LATE MALAWI VP’S PARTY DEMANDS PROBE INTO PLANE CRASH
On Thursday, the party of Saulos Chilima, the vice president of Malawi who passed away in an aircraft crash this week, called for an inquiry....