(INVERCARGILL, New Zealand) -- A Virgin Australia flight made an emergency landing in New Zealand after a "possible bird strike," the airline said in a statement.Flight VA 148 from Queenstown to Melbourne was diverted shortly after takeoff, the airline said on Monday. The Boeing 737 landed at Invercargill Airport, where…
(LONDON) -- A Virgin Australia flight made an emergency landing in New Zealand after a "possible bird strike," the airline said in a statement.Flight VA 148 from Queenstown to Melbourne was diverted shortly after takeoff, the airline said on Monday. The Boeing 737 landed at Invercargill Airport, where it was…
(RUSSIA) -- U.S. Army service member Gordon Black, who has been detained in Russia since early May, pleaded partially guilty to charges of theft during the second hearing of his ongoing trial in the Primorsky Court, Russian media reported Monday.Black, 35, admitted to theft, but he did not admit to…
(LONDON) -- The first hearing in the espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been scheduled for June 26 in Russia, according to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.The Russian prosecutor's office announced earlier this month that the reporter would stand trial on espionage charges, officially ending any future…
(GREECE) -- An American tourist found dead over the weekend on a beach on the Greek Island of Mathraki has been identified by authorities.Toby Sheets, a 55-year-old New Yorker, died from drowning, Ioannis Aivatidis, the coroner in Corfu, Greece, who performed the autopsy, told ABC News on Tuesday.The U.S. Embassy…
(SOMALIA) -- A United States military airstrike in Somalia targeted the top Islamic State leader in late May, but it remains unclear if the leader was killed in the airstrike, according to U.S. officials. Abdulqadir Mumin has been identified by the U.S. as the head of the Islamic State in Somalia, an African…
(SWITZERLAND) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke warmly about the recent Ukrainian-American security agreement before a bilateral meeting at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine on Saturday in Switzerland.Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian "teams have started to implement" the U.S.-Ukraine bilateral security agreement that was recently…
(GAZA) -- In Deir Al-Balah, a city in the Gaza Strip, Marwa Al-Hasanat has found a way to bring some joy to her community amid the destruction and hardship of war in the form of a roadside bookstore.Al-Hasanat, 22, a lifelong lover of books inspired by her grandfather who authored…
(LVIV, Ukraine) -- Col. Oleh Avtomeenko was wounded while performing a combat mission in Donetsk region, on the first days of the Russian full-scale invasion in late February 2022, and lost his eyesight.And now, after 20 years in Ukrainian Army, he has to say goodbye to it and learn how…
(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. military is once again suspending operations of its pier off Gaza, temporarily moving the floating structure to an Israeli port to ride out high seas and rough waves expected to hit the region in coming days, officials said Friday.It's the latest setback for the ambitious…
