News in brief
Dozens of Alawite families in Syria were compelled to leave their neighborhood near Damascus following threats from armed men, residents told AFP on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that an armed group entered the Soumariya district, west of Damascus, on Thursday, forcing......
US authorities are raising concerns over the potential use of drones by far-right extremists in domestic attacks. Experts warn that both commercially available and home-built first-person view (FPV) drones could become key tools in an anticipated insurgency against the government. Analysts report that......
The Utah Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, a 67-year-old man convicted of killing Maurine Hunsaker in 1986, after his attorneys argued that he suffers from severe dementia. Menzies had been scheduled to face a firing squad on September 5, a method he chose......
A tragic incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday in Évreux, Normandy, when a man drove a car into a crowd outside a bar, killing one person and injuring five others. According to prosecutors, the attack followed a dispute inside the establishment around 4 a.m. Staff members had escorted......
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a stark warning on Saturday regarding Israel’s plan to evacuate Gaza City, stressing that such an operation is “impossible” under the current humanitarian conditions. Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the ICRC, declared that......
Former speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament, Andriy Parubiy, a prominent figure of the 2014 pro-European Maidan revolution, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv, according to national authorities. The assailant fled the scene, prompting a large-scale manhunt. The prosecutor general’s......
Chinese President Xi Jinping began hosting foreign leaders on Saturday in Tianjin, northern China, ahead of the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. Among the first to meet Xi were United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, according......
The Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine was struck by a large-scale Russian attack during the night of Friday, August 29, to Saturday, August 30, according to the regional governor. This comes as Kyiv acknowledged earlier this week that Russian forces had breached the region for the first time since the......
Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous and wealthiest province, faces severe flooding as heavy monsoon rains continue to batter the region. Authorities have already evacuated nearly half a million residents living along swollen rivers, where 30 deaths have been reported so far. In total, over 1.5 million......
A devastating migrant tragedy unfolded off the coast of Mauritania on Tuesday night when a pirogue carrying 160 people capsized, resulting in at least 49 deaths, according to AFP. Survivors recount the disaster Seventeen men survived the incident, including eleven Senegalese and six Gambians. After......
Russian firefighters were still battling a large blaze on Saturday in the Krasnodar region, southern Russia, after debris from a Ukrainian drone ignited a forest fire earlier this week near a luxury residence often referred to as “Putin’s palace.” Local authorities reported that the......
A federal judge in Washington has blocked the Trump administration’s nationwide expansion of a fast-track deportation process, dealing a blow to the president’s pledge of mass expulsions of undocumented migrants. The “expedited removal” procedure was initially applied only to......
French Catholic education authorities in the Loire-Atlantique region announced Friday that new testimonies of sexual abuse have surfaced concerning the Saint-Stanislas secondary school in Nantes. The alleged acts, committed between 1958 and 1995, involve ten victims and five priests, all now deceased,......
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