Boat carrying 396 Haitian migrants intercepted by US Coast Guard
"Unsafe, overloaded" Haitian sailing vessel carrying 396 migrants was intercepted by US Coast Guard on Saturday, 21 January.Source: @USCGSoutheast, Twitter
"Unsafe, overloaded" Haitian sailing vessel carrying 396 migrants was intercepted by US Coast Guard on Saturday, 21 January.Source: @USCGSoutheast, Twitter
Rescuers airlifted two climbers injured in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Granada, Spain, to safety on Thursday, January 26.Video posted by the Guardia Civil shows emergency responders using a helicopter to rescue the two people from the Granada mountain. Officials said that the rescue took place at an altitude of 9,800 feet (3,000 meters) after the mountaineers fell down an icy 160-foot (50-meter) slope.Local news outlets reported that both climbers sustained serious injuries, but said that it “could have had much more serious consequences.”Officials said that climbing the mountain range in snowy and icy conditions is “extremely dangerous” even for “technically gifted and experienced people.” Credit: Guardia Civil via Storyful
STORY: On Tuesday (January 24), the vessel, operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), picked up 69 migrants south of Malta, including 9 women and 25 minors, and was told to go to the northern port of La Spezia.While heading north on Wednesday (January 25), the MSF team received a distress alert by Alarm Phone and saved other 61 migrants - including 13 women and 24 minors, the youngest one being less than 1- year old - from an overcrowded rubber boat in distress in international waters near Libya.The Geo Barents, which is currently carrying 237 migrants onboard, is heading towards La Spezia, the furthest and northernmost destination that Italy has assigned to an NGO ship.This month, the right-wing government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, told other vessels to reach Livorno in Tuscany, and the eastern Adriatic ports of Ancona and Ravenna.Until recently, these ships would usually have been made to dock on Lampedusa island or other Sicilian locations.
Officials recover bodies of 41 people, including women and children, after bus falls into ravine
Polling began in the second round of elections for Tunisia's toothless parliament on Sunday, but as the divided nation grapples with economic woes, all eyes will be on turnout.The latest polls, whose first round in December saw just 11.2 percent of registered voters take part, are seen as the final pillar of Saied's transformation of politics.
"A week before my mother died, her house was broken into and burned down," said Mathieu Okoma Agoa, from a village in Ivory Coast.Okoma Agoa's mother suffered from leprosy, a disease that made her a social outcast long before she died.
North Korea on Sunday denied providing arms to Moscow after the United States said the nuclear-armed state supplied rockets and missiles to Russia's private military group Wagner."We also know that North Korea is providing military support to the Russian war efforts with the rockets and missiles," he added.
Demonstrations in Lima turned fatal on Saturday as one protester died in clashes with police near Congress after lawmakers rejected a request by Peru's embattled president to bring elections forward.In the early hours of Saturday, lawmakers had rejected her request to move the polls forward to December, even as anti-Boluarte protests raging across the country have left dozens dead.
The idea of New York in wintertime conjures up images of Manhattan's Times Square and Central Park shrouded in snow.Meteorologists define snowfall in NYC as snow that measures at least 0.1 inches in Central Park.
India's rising tide of Hindu nationalism is an affront to the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, his great-grandson says, ahead of the 75th anniversary of the revered independence hero's assassination.Today, Gandhi's assassin is revered by many Hindu nationalists who have pushed for a re-evaluation of his decision to murder a man synonymous with non-violence.
The pensioner who allegedly sent letter bombs to Spain's prime minister and the Ukrainian embassy was placed in pre-trial detention on Friday on grounds he could flee to "Russian territory". The home-made devices were sent in late November and early December to Spain's prime minister and defence minister, the Ukrainian and US embassies, the European Union Satellite Centre near Madrid and to a Spanish arms manufacturer in the northeastern city of Zaragoza.
New York officials and members of the city's Jewish community called Friday for the removal of plaques bearing the name of French Nazi collaborators from Manhattan's celebrated Broadway street.The parade took place before they worked for the Nazis during Germany's occupation of France during World War II. "Removing the plaques is not a whitewashing of history.
Hundreds of people, including foreign diplomats and activists, paid homage Saturday to a human rights lawyer who was shot dead in Eswatini, sparking alarm over political violence in Africa's last absolute monarchy.EU ambassador Dessislava Choumelova called for the "safety of all citizens including political activists".
Two Indian Air Force fighter jets crashed Saturday, killing one pilot and injuring two others, in an apparent mid-air collision while on exercises south of the capital New Delhi."The aircraft were on routine operational flying training mission," the country's air force said in a statement, adding that one of the three pilots was fatally injured.
Authorities in Chile on Saturday raised the alert level and limited access to the area around the Lascar volcano, after an increase in seismic activity raised fears of a possible eruption.Following "an increase in seismicity," the National Geology and Mining Service has raised the alert level for Lascar from yellow to orange.
With anti-France feelings running high in many of its former colonies in West Africa, Paris is being forced to retreat ever further from the increasingly unstable region and re-think its presence, experts say.After the ruling junta in Mali forced French troops out last year, the army officers running neighbouring Burkina Faso followed suit this week, asking Paris to empty its garrison in the next month.
Italian energy giant Eni signed an $8 billion gas deal with Libya's state-run National Oil Corporation Saturday as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni visited Tripoli.Meloni also visited Algeria this week seeking supply deals from Africa's top gas exporter.
Rwandan authorities on Saturday said they had arrested six people for allegedly hurling insults at a woman who made history as one of the first female referees chosen for the men's World Cup.The 34-year-old made history last year by becoming the first woman to referee at the Africa Cup of Nations.
The United States said Friday it would refuse entry to two Serbian ultra-nationalist former members of parliament wanted by a UN court for witness tampering in a trial over crimes against humanity."The United States continues to stand with all Serbians in support of democracy and the rule of law and will continue to promote accountability for those who abuse public power for personal gain," State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.
Driver Tharaa Ali takes her seat at the helm of a high-speed train ferrying pilgrims to Mecca, a beneficiary of conservative Saudi Arabia's bid to employ its booming female workforce.But last year she joined some 28,000 applicants vying for just 32 slots for women drivers on the Haramain High Speed Railway, which plies the 450-kilometre (280-mile) route between the holy cities of Mecca and Medina at speeds of up to 300 kilometres (186 miles) per hour.
Revealed and launched at the Xbox Developer Direct showcase on 26 January, Hi-Fi Rush is an action-adventure game for the musically-inclined. Here's our review.