Kosovo police on Monday closed six branches of a Serbia-licensed bank in line with the decision on the ban of the use of the Serbian dinar currency in the country, a move that has raised tension with neighboring Serbia. A police statement
A South Korean court on Friday sentenced a former justice minister, Cho Kuk, to two years in prison, after he was found guilty of creating fake credentials to help his children get into prestigious schools, a scandal that rocked the country’s previous
One boy was killed and another seriously injured when they were hit by a freight train in western Germany, police said Friday. The boys, ages 9 and 10, were hit by the train in Recklinghausen, in the Ruhr industrial region, on Thursday
The People’s Republic of China confirmed Friday that the balloon craft floating over the northern United States is Chinese. “The airship is from China. It is a civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Friday.
A man was arrested after threatening to commit an attack while traveling on a high-speed TGV train in eastern France on Friday. Police sources said the individual threatened to blow up himself or the train. There was no immediate suspicion that terrorism
Canadian national defense forces are monitoring the Chinese spy balloon detected over Montana and a “potential second incident.” The U.S. government is monitoring a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been moving over northern states over the past several days. US GOVERNMENT
Karla Jacinto estimates she has been raped more than 40,000 times. A victim of human trafficking, she was forced to have sex between 30 and 40 times per day from the ages of 12 to 16 years old. “It was always [an]
Pope Francis opened the second and final leg of his African pilgrimage by heading to South Sudan on Friday, hoping to encourage the young country’s stalled peace process and draw international attention to continued fighting and a worsening humanitarian crisis. Francis had
Troops raided a militant hideout in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold near the border with Afghanistan on Friday, triggering a shootout that killed two insurgents, the military said. Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif summoned the country’s opposition leader to forge a response
The Israeli government has launched an investigation to determine if the Biden administration violated any international laws, including the Oslo Accords, when it sent a historic artifact to Palestinian authorities last month. The probe was prompted after a spoon dating back 2,700
China has announced its government is looking into reports that a suspected Chinese spy balloon was discovered flying in U.S. airspace over Montana. “China is a responsible country and has always strictly abided by international laws, and China has no intention to