A climate activist who allegedly smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th century French artist Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was charged. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, N.Y., got 60 days of prison
More than a dozen Chinese military aircraft and four naval vessels were detected around Taiwan on Friday morning, defense officials said. The incursions by Chinese warplanes have become almost a daily occurrence in recent months, but Friday’s show of aggression comes ahead
A 23-year-old beautician allegedly trolled social media platforms in a search for someone who looked like her – found a TikToker and lured the victim out into a German forest to kill her, according to authorities there. Police in Upper Bavaria say
The State Department announced new visa restrictions this week on current and former Taliban officials who were involved in the decision to ban women and girls from higher education. The Taliban doubled down on their ban of women in girls in college
El Salvador has doubled its prison capacity after opening a 40,000-person facility this week in an effort to further crack down on the country’s gang violence problem. “All those home boys, those terrorists in the organization that made our beloved Salvadoran people
A cow that died recently on a Dutch farm tested positive for mad cow disease, the government of the Netherlands announced Wednesday, in a rare case of the cattle illness that can cause a fatal brain disease in people who eat tainted
Rio de Janeiro’s brutal summer heat has reached 122 degrees Fahrenheit on some recent days, sending locals to cool off in the ocean. There weren’t many options for residents of the city’s zoo, however, until a team of experts started offering them
Germany will give $141.87 million to the World Health Organization this year, its health minister said on Thursday following a meeting with the U.N. health agency’s head. However, the announcement was not enough to return it to the top donor spot after
Prosecutors have accused former kickboxing star and right-wing personality Andrew Tate, 36, of intimidating and deceiving six women to “transform them into slaves.” Bucharest court officials released a 61-page document covering a hearing from Dec. 30, 2022, one day after Tate and
Appeals judges at a European Union-backed court on Thursday upheld most of the convictions of two leaders of a Kosovo war veterans’ association who were found guilty last year of witness intimidation and obstructing justice. The appeals panel of the Hague-based Kosovo
The Hungarian foreign minister accused the United States ambassador to Budapest on Thursday of trying to interfere in Hungary’s internal affairs, amid a growing diplomatic rift between the U.S. and the Central European country. At a news conference in Budapest, Foreign Minister