(LONDON) -- There were "serious breaches" of international law and crimes against humanity were committed during the two-year Tigray War, according to a report released by U.S think tank New Lines Institute.The report said it found "reasonable basis" that all parties in the conflict committed war crimes and "serious" breaches…
(LONDON) -- Gunfire was heard Wednesday morning near the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, officials said, adding that "our team are safe.""All American personnel in Lebanon are safe and accounted for," Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, said on ABC News' Good Morning America on Wednesday. "One…
(FLORENCE, Italy and LONDON) -- An Italian court on Wednesday re-convicted Amanda Knox of slander, upholding the only conviction still standing in association with the brutal murder of her roommate in 2007.The Florence court on Wednesday sentenced Knox to three years for slandering Patrick Lumumba, a Congolese bar owner, in…
(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Cambodia's prime minister Tuesday amid concerns in Washington over the kingdom's relationship with China, which may look to the country as a foothold in southeast Asia.The Pentagon chief, who met with Prime Minister Hun Manet for the first time since…
(NEW YORK) -- Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected president of Mexico, marking the first time a woman has been chosen to lead the country, Mexico's election institute announced early Monday."For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a woman president and she will be transformative,"…
(NEW YORK) -- A North Korean official on Sunday vowed that the secretive country would stop floating trash-carrying balloons over the border into South Korea, but warned that the campaign may resume if South Korean groups continued sending leaflets north.North Korea sent about 3,500 balloons of various sizes across the…
(LONDON) -- Sudanese army leaders are rejecting peace talks with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group following U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's call with Sudanese Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan earlier this week.“We will not go to Jeddah, and whoever wants us to, should kill us in our…
(ZIMBABWE) -- A remarkable fossil finding in Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has led to a new dinosaur species being named by researchers: Musankwa sanyatiensis.The fossilized remains of the species' single hind leg, including its thigh, shin, and ankle bones were discovered embedded into a rock in the lake's shoreline, according…
(RAFAH, GAZA) -- Sumaya Samir Al-Tot, a mother-of-one in Rafah, Gaza, said she has been displaced 17 times. On Wednesday, she fled for the 18th.Sumaya is among one of the more than one million people, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), who have fled the southern…
(SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON) -- Around 260 air balloons carrying bags of manure and trash have been spotted across South Korea on Wednesday after they were sent over the border from North Korea, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.The incident reportedly stems from an incident on Sunday…
