A video, authenticated by AP news, purports to show rebels freeing dozens of women and at least one child, as they sweep into a jail run by the regime of deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The rebel forces are heard saying “please don’t be afraid, you can go out now. We’re part of the revolution.”
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned a conviction against actor Jussie Smollett, who prosecutors accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 in Chicago. Smollett, who is black and gay, was convicted of five counts of disorderly conduct in 2021. He had claimed two men targeted him in a hate-crime, yelling…
Max Verstappen cruised to a fourth consecutive Formula 1 championship on Saturday night by finishing fifth in the Las Vegas Grand Prix. Verstappen needed only to finish ahead of Lando Norris of McLaren to give Red Bull a fourth straight driver championship. The Dutchman started fifth but was already up to second by the 10th lap around…
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Gunmen in Mexico have shot dead a judge outside a courthouse in the city of Acapulco. Judge Edmundo Román Pinzón was hit by at least four bullets as he was driving out of the courthouse car park on Wednesday afternoon, local time. He was a senior judge who had been president of the highest court…
Food prices are soaring in the Gaza Strip after armed men attacked and robbed nearly 100 U.N. aid trucks that crossed over from Israel. Of the 109 trucks that entered central Gaza on Saturday, 97 were “violently looted” and “forced at gunpoint to unload aid,” according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for…
What is being dubbed as the largest gold deposit in the world has been found in China, state outlet Xinhua news said. The gold reserves are worth 600 billion yuan, according to Reuters, which amounts to $83 billion U.S. The discovery was made by geologists with the Hunan Provincial Geological Institute about 12 miles beneath…