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A would-be bourbon thief was left visibly dejected when his grab-and-go liquor store robbery was foiled by locked automatic doors, security cam footage shows. An unidentified man was caught on camera trying to steal a 10-pack of Wild Turkey 101 from The Bottle-O Beechboro liquor store near Perth, Australia, on …

What’s happening in Syria’s civil war? Fox News host Bret Baier has the latest on the Syrian civil war that erupted in 2011 and the Arab League’s consensus decision to bring Syria back into the fold on ‘Special Report.’ Fighting among various opposition groups in Syria has declined, but the …

The HIV/AIDS treatment center in Kampala is almost empty, days after Uganda enacted one of the most draconian anti-gay laws on Earth. The usual daily influx of around 50 patients has all but dried up, say staff. Antiretroviral drugs pile up unused. Andrew Tendo, resident medical officer at the US-funded …

Kosovo became the second Muslim-majority country to endorse the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization, definition of anti-Semitism, joining 43 other countries.  The southeastern European country passed the resolution on adopting the definition defined by the IHRA on Thursday, June 8.  The decision was announced on Twitter by …

Romania’s foreign ministry has informed Russia that it must reduce the number of its embassy positions in Bucharest by 51, bringing it in line with the size of Romania’s embassy staff in Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday that because some of the jobs at the Russian Embassy …

Investigators commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body on Thursday accused Israel of “delegitimizing and silencing civil society” by outlawing Palestinian human rights groups and labeling their members as “terrorists.” The findings came in the annual report by the Human Rights Council’s “Commission of Inquiry.” The commission, led by …

The emaciated inmate in black shorts lay on a thin mat in Haiti’s most notorious prison, isolated from other prisoners at Port-au-Prince’s National Penitentiary because of drug-resistant tuberculosis. He slowly sat up to talk to a visiting reporter and more than 70 fellow tuberculosis patients gathered at the door of …

The Israeli military has announced the destruction of a West Bank residence belonging to a Palestinian individual who is suspected of being involved in the twin bombings that occurred in Jerusalem. Violence in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem has intensified since the establishment of Israel’s new right-wing government …

At least five Africans are dead and dozens believed missing after three boats attempting to carry migrants across the Mediterranean Sea sank in recent days off the coast of the Tunisian city of Sfax, the Tunisian coast guard said Thursday. Bodies of five people, including one child, were recovered in …

A federal judge in Mexico has charged another Venezuelan migrant for his alleged role in the March blaze at a Mexican detention center that left 40 dead and dozens more wounded. Mexico prosecutor’s office said Thursday in a statement that a man identified as Carlos “C” was charged with homicide, …

A Moroccan migrant who was injured by gunfire while crossing from Turkey into Greece Thursday is being hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries, Greek officials said. A police statement said the 30-year-old man was found trying to cross the river Evros — Meric in Turkish — that runs along the land …

Kosovo’s prime minister on Thursday complained of bias against his country from the United States and the European Union and tolerance of what he called Serbia’s authoritarian regime. Prime Minister Albin Kurti said his Cabinet took a different stance. “We insist that behaving well with an autocrat doesn’t make him …

Philippine officials on Thursday raised the alert level for one of the country’s most active volcanoes after superheated streams of gas, debris and rocks cascaded down its upper slope in a condition they fear could lead to a hazardous eruption within days or weeks. Villagers living within a 3.7-mile radius …

The United States Agency for International Development announced Thursday the suspension of all food aid to Ethiopia. An internal investigation discovered “widespread and coordinated” theft and diversion of supplies intended for millions of the massive East African nation’s malnourished residents. “Our intention is to immediately resume food assistance once we …

A Russian man died after being mauled by a shark on Thursday off one of Egypt’s Red Sea resorts, Egyptian and Russian authorities said. Egypt’s Environment Ministry said the man was killed after being attacked by a tiger shark in the waters near the city of Hurghada. Authorities closed off …

A coalition of opposition groups won a majority of seats in Guinea Bissau’s parliament, beating the ruling party in the country’s first legislative elections since the president dissolved the National People’s Assembly more than a year ago, according to results announced Thursday. The results from the weekend vote were announced …

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission said Thursday it will investigate 237 more cases of South Korean adoptees who suspect their family origins were manipulated to facilitate their adoptions in Europe and the United States. The new cases in the commission’s expanded inquiry into South Korea’s foreign adoption boom involve …

Australia’s government plans legislation to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday. While most Australian states already ban such Nazi symbols, the federal law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, Dreyfus said. “There’s …

The Israeli army said on Thursday that it demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian involved in twin bombings in Jerusalem that killed two and wounded at least 18 others in November. Israeli authorities arrested Islam Faroukh in December on suspicion of carrying out the bombings, part of a …

A report released Thursday into a deadly shooting during Oslo’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride festival last year blasted Norway’s domestic security agency, saying it had intelligence an attack was imminent and could have prevented the bloodshed. The report focused on how the police and the Norwegian Police Security Service handled the …

A train was being recovered Thursday from an Austrian tunnel where it got stuck when a fire broke out, forcing rescuers to evacuate the 151 people on board. The regional government in Tyrol province said that 33 people were slightly injured in Wednesday evening’s incident and were taken to hospitals …

As many as eight young workers at a Mexican drug cartel’s scam call center were confirmed dead after reportedly attempting to quit their jobs. U.S. and Mexican authorities say the eight young workers were reported missing last month after relatives became suspicious when they had not returned from their office …

An Australian man who admitted killing a gay American by punching him off a cliff top in Sydney in 1988 was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison, ending the victim’s family’s 35-year battle for justice. Scott Phillip White, 52, had pleaded guilty in the New South Wales state …

A Syrian national was arrested Thursday after allegedly stabbing four children and an adult in the French Alps town of Annecy in a knife attack that President Emmanuel Macron is decrying as an act of “absolute cowardice.”  A witness told BFMTV following the stabbing spree that he saw first responders working …

JERUSALEM — The Biden administration is facing intense criticism for its reported willingness to pump $17 billion dollars into the coffers of the world’s worst state-sponsor of terrorism — the Islamic Republic of Iran — to reach a controversial deal to impose temporary restrictions on Iran’s illicit nuclear program and …

JERUSALEM — Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being clueless about the judicial reform process unfolding in the Jewish state in the latest clash between the Biden administration and Israel’s conservative government over internal domestic polices in the Mideast country.  In a response …

NATO is set to launch its largest-ever air force deployment in its history in a training scheme intended to stimulate an attack on an allied nation, officials said Wednesday. The drill – dubbed Air Defender 23 – will take place Monday over Germany and involve 10,000 participants and 250 aircraft from …

The State Department on Tuesday issued a travel advisory for Americans looking to visit the Dominican Republic, a top Caribbean destination, amid an increase in violent crime and sexual assaults.  A yellow flag-level two advisory was issued urging travelers heading to the Caribbean hotspot to “exercise increased caution.” “Violent crime, …

Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office is investigating a possible case of extrajudicial killings by soldiers that left five men dead in May in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, according to a federal official. A video, originally reported Tuesday evening by U.S.-based Univision and Spain’s El Pais newspaper, apparently shows …

In an ironic twist, Canada recognized it’s annual Clean Air Day as wildfires continue to ravage Ontario and Quebec and pour smoky, yellow haze into the northeastern U.S. creating a dangerous air quality.  Canada’s government took the unique situation to remind residents that, “air pollution knows no boundaries.” Created in …

United Nations judges have declared an 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would establish a procedure to go on hearing evidence without the possibility of convicting him. The majority decision published Wednesday by judges at the International Residual Mechanism for …

Dozens of Ukrainians in the path of devastating floodwaters from a breached dam evacuated under the echoes of Russian shelling on Wednesday, as the U.S. State Department estimates that 20,000 people will need to relocate. The rising floodwaters let loose from the ruptured Kakhovka dam forced residents of Kherson, an island …

A minibus crash in northern Afghanistan killed 25 people, including nine children and 12 women, a police spokesman said Wednesday. The accident happened in a mountainous area with half-paved roads in Sar-e-Pul province as the passengers were returning from a wedding. They were traveling from one part of Sayyad district …

Authorities in Poland, including prosecutors and the patients’ ombudsman, are currently conducting an investigation into the unfortunate death of a pregnant woman at a hospital.  The woman’s family has accused the doctors of withholding information about the danger and failing to take necessary measures to save her life.  The situation …

Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has vowed to conduct early parliamentary elections in the wake of extensive demonstrations and two recent tragic mass shootings in May.  Many opposition parties have rejected the idea of an election, citing Vucic’s firm control over the country’s institutions, including the media, which is largely under …

Six people have been arrested in Romania, Germany and Bulgaria in raids targeting a network alleged to have smuggled hundreds of migrants into Romania and Germany, authorities said Wednesday. Fifteen properties were searched on Wednesday, 11 of them in Romania, German federal police said in a statement. Four of the …

Poland and Germany’s environment ministers met at the border between the two nations to address the safeguarding of a river from a potential recurrence of lethal pollution that resulted in the death of numerous tons of fish in the previous year. The ministers discussed safeguarding the shared parts of the …

Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Tuesday the temporary closure of its overseas consulates — including those in Paris and New York — as unprecedented political violence wrought havoc on the West African nation and its diplomatic missions abroad. The ministry called the move a “precautionary measure,” in a statement, …

Poland has deported a former Russian intelligence officer with the counterintelligence unit of the Federal Security Service (FSB), denying his repeated requests for asylum and handing him back over to Russian authorities, reports said Wednesday. Emran Navruzbekov was deported to Russia after a Polish court ruled last week that he …

Spain experienced its hottest spring on record and the second driest ever, according to the country’s meteorological agency. The scorching temperatures observed this year follow the trend of exceptionally high temperatures in 2022, which marked Spain’s hottest year on record. The Spanish government has allocated $2.4 billion for drought response …

Parkeru Ntereka lost almost half of his goat herd to hungry lions that wandered into his pen located near Kenya’s iconic Amboseli national park. The 56-year-old’s loss made headlines in the east African country as it led to the spearing to death of six lions in retaliation by the Maasai …

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak may look to forge closer economic ties with the U.S. during upcoming meetings with President Biden, appealing to their cooperation and close ties militarily. “Just as interoperability between our militaries has given us a battlefield advantage over our adversaries, greater economic interoperability will give us …

A British woman is accused tricking a nearsighted woman into sex by pretending to be a man while requesting that the woman take off her glasses. Georgia Bilham, a 21-year-old woman who went by the alias “George Parry,” allegedly tricked a 19-year-old woman into a sexual relationship by creating fake …

Canadian officials are warning that this year could be the country’s worst-ever in terms of wildfire destruction as millions of Americans are being impacted by smoke from the blazes that is drifting south.  There are currently 413 active wildfires across Canada, 249 of which are deemed out of control, according …

An informal group known as the Bucharest Nine met in Slovakia’s capital to discuss how the countries involved will approach the NATO Summit beginning on July 11. The leaders agreed that NATO must push to boost support for Ukraine and listen to Ukraine’s aspirations of joining the military alliance. The …

A Thai state enterprise that has been exporting electricity to neighboring Myanmar has cut off power to two border towns with notorious casino complexes that allegedly host major organized crime operations, Thai officials said Tuesday. The towns of Shwe Kokko and Lay Kay Kaw in Myanmar host gambling and entertainment …

Pope Francis is undergoing abdominal surgery Wednesday at a hospital in Rome to treat an intestinal blockage, the Vatican says.  A statement from the Holy See Press Office said the operation, which was “decided upon over the past few days by the medical team assisting the Holy Father, became necessary …

President Biden and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will continue their work toward strengthening relations between the two allies during the U.K. leader’s visit to Washington. “Firstly, this is an effort by Sunak to reach out to Biden and develop a warmer relationship,” Nile Gardiner, director of The Heritage Foundation’s …

Belarus was denied a spot on the United Nations Security Council Tuesday as five other nations joined the rotational ranks, granting them voting powers for the next two years.  Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone and South Korea won the top spots after running unopposed with their terms set to begin on …

A U.S.-bound Air India plane carrying 216 passengers and 16 crew members was diverted to a port city in Russia after the aircraft developed an engine problem, officials said on Wednesday. The aircraft was “likely” carrying U.S. citizens, a U.S. State Department official confirmed. The plane, a Boeing 777, safely …