Winter weather brought ice to Texas and nearby states Tuesday, causing the cancellation of more than 980 flights and delays to nearly 800 more.
‘Hands off Africa!’: Pope blasts foreign plundering of Congo
Pope Francis demanded Tuesday that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” as he arrived in Congo to a raucous welcome by Congolese grateful he was focusing the world’s attention on their forgotten …
Pro-Palestine Hackers Threaten Israeli Chemical Companies
A group, named Electronic Quds Force, is threatening companies’ engineers and workers and is inviting them to resign from their positions. The attacks are retaliation against the Israeli government and its policy against Palestinians.
IMF downgrades UK growth forecast, predicting only economic decline among G-7 countries
The group expects the U.K. economy to contract by 0.6% this year where it previously forecast slight growth.
Beijing Has Hit ‘Temporary Herd Immunity’: China Health Official
Beijing has reached “temporary herd immunity” and its Covid outbreak is nearing an end, a city health official said Tuesday, in another sign China’s unprecedented virus wave is waning.
Family Says Sudan Freed Man Convicted of Killing US Diplomat
Sudanese authorities have released a man convicted of the 2008 killing of a U.S. diplomat in a drive-by shooting in the capital, Khartoum.
2 Nebraska officers wounded, suspect killed in shootout
Police in Nebraska say two officers were wounded and a suspect was killed in a shootout during an attempted burglary.
The race to find an 8mm radioactive capsule lost on an 870-mile stretch of Australian Outback
A mining company dropped a tiny capsule of caesium-137 somewhere along an 870-mile stretch of Western Australia’s Great Northern Highway. The plan is to find it before someone gets hurt, Liam James reports