(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. citizen Siamak Namazi has begun a seven-day hunger strike while urging President Joe Biden to do more to bring him and other American detainees in Iran back home. Namazi began the strike Monday to mark the seventh anniversary of a prisoner swap with Iran that failed to…
(NEW YORK) -- The National Hurricane Center on Monday issued a rare tropical weather outlook for January: a strong, non-tropical low pressure system in the Atlantic Ocean. The powerful storm, located about 300 miles north of Bermuda, will soon lose steam. It was unable to transition to a subtropical or…
(MEXICO CITY) -- Mexican authorities said Monday that the recent death of an American tourist appears to be "an unfortunate accident." U.S. citizen Elliot Blair died on Jan. 14 at Las Rocas Resort and Spa, located on the shores of Rosarito Beach, just south of Tijuana, along the western coast…
(MANCHESTER, England) -- -- Ademola Adedeji had a place secured to study law at a top university in England. As part of a charity initiative, he had authored a book about inspiring his local community in Moston, Manchester, made an address to parliament and was seen by family and friends…
(NEW YORK) -- One of the World’s strictest anti-tobacco laws has been imposed in Mexico, setting in force a total ban on smoking in public places, including hotels, beaches and parks. The new law, which is part of the country's General Law for Tobacco Control reform, came into force on…
(KATHMANDU, Nepal) -- Search crews on Monday recovered the black boxes from Yeti Airlines NYT 691, the short-haul flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday with 72 people on board. Both the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered as more than 300 people combed the site of…
(NEW YORK) -- “When you’re cooking, steam comes out of your mouth,” Svetalana told us, standing in her bitterly cold, pitch-black kitchen, near where seven months earlier a Russian bomb caused the windows to blow out and her bedroom walls to cave in. Svetlana is now dealing with another kind…
(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. Navy veteran was released from Russian custody Thursday after being held since last April, according to statements from his family and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson's office. Navy veteran Taylor Dudley left Russia at the Bagrationovsk-Bezledy border crossing with Poland, and "is currently with…
(NEW YORK) -- As thousands of supporters of former far-right Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro stormed three major government buildings in Brazil's capital on Sunday in protest of the presidential election results, the shocking, violent scene drew immediate comparisons to another post-election uprising -- the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.…
(LONDON) -- Prince William and Kate made their first public appearance Thursday since the release of Prince Harry's memoir Spare. William and Kate stepped out in Liverpool, England, but did not issue a public comment on Harry's memoir, in which he details an ongoing rift with William, including claiming that…
