Austria’s foreign ministry said that unknown assailants kidnapped a female citizen in the military-run West African state of Niger. AFP confirmed the incident and said they were aware of the “possible abduction of an Austrian woman” in Agadez, which is…
The flight data and voice recorders in the cockpit of the South Korean passenger plane that crashed last month stopped recording four minutes before the crash, the country’s transport ministry said. The Jeju Air plane crash killed 179 people, making…
Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday. The two men are receiving “necessary medical assistance” and are in the custody of the…
German authorities have said the oil tanker stuck in German waters belongs to Russia’s “shadow fleet”, which Berlin says is being used to evade sanctions. The German Maritime Authority (CCME) said on Friday that the Panamanian-flagged ship, known as the…
Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who led two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, has resigned from the Justice Department before the president-elect takes office later this month. According to the court filing submitted on Saturday, Mr. Smith “separated from…
Tessa Moura Lacerda Tessa Moura Lacerda is a professor of philosophy at the University of São Paulo “Did we really do that?” Tessa Moura Lacerda asked her mother in disbelief as they stood outside a government office on a rainy…
Alamy Abdul Kadir Bawla was one of the richest men in Bombay at the time of the murder It looked like an ordinary murder. One hundred years ago today – January 12, 1925 – a group of men attacked a…
Fritz Pinnow “It all started as a small passion project,” says Fabriccio Díaz, 28, who, along with his wife Lucía Ramírez, 25, runs the only fully operational photo film developing lab in Central America from his apartment in Guatemala City.…
Getty Images An eerie whistling sound followed by a loud noise startled Kenyan villagers relaxing one recent afternoon with family and friends. “It sounded like a bomb, I was shocked. I started looking around, also wondering if it was gunshots,”…
Malala Yousafzai called on Muslim leaders to challenge the Taliban government in Afghanistan and its repressive policies against girls and women. “Simply put, the Taliban in Afghanistan do not see women as human beings,” she said at an international summit…