The UN mission in Mali on Thursday blamed Malian and Niger troops for scores of extra-judicial killings between January and March. According to a quarterly MINUSMA report, Mali’s forces carried out 101 executions and Niger forces 34 more between January 1 and March 31 in the country. The report from MINUSMA’s human rights division found […]

A person was arrested early Thursday after opening  fire on the Cuban embassy in Washington, the US Secret Service said. No one was injured. The unidentified person fired multiple rounds from what some reports said was a high-powered assault rifle. “This morning at approximately 2:15 am, US Secret Service officers responded to the Embassy of Cuba following […]

Chinese doctors removed a live six-inch worm (parasite) from a 23-year-old Chinese female patient who was complaining of having continuous headaches. Xiao Yi (pseudonym) was reported to have visited a local clinic in Jiangsu province of eastern China in January but was transferred to a provincial hospital in Nanjing after she suffered an epilepsy attack. […]

Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87. As a member of the ANC’s military wing, he was convicted of armed resistance to white-minority rule and sentenced to four life terms in 1964. He was imprisoned for 22 years. Confirming the news of […]

Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would keep the US embassy in Israel in Jerusalem if elected — even though he disagrees with Donald Trump’s controversial 2017 decision to move it out of Tel Aviv. The former vice president said the embassy should never have been moved without that decision being part […]