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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Kidnappings are rampant, averaging one every six hours last year, while killings are up, with 2,200 homicides in 2022, a dramatic increase over the previous year. The size of Haiti’s national police force is less than half of w…
Protesters clashed outside London’s Tate Britain museum on Saturday over a drag queen storytelling event. About 30 demonstrators showed up to protest the Drag Queen Story Hour U.K. event, which featured drag performer and author Aida H Dee reading to …
An aerial view shows destroyed buildings as a result of the devastating earthquake that struck the Turkish city of Hatay. Abed Alrahman Alkahlout/Quds Net News via ZUMA Press/dpaThe death toll from earthquakes in Turkey and Syria neared 25,000 on Satu…
Aya, the so-called “miracle baby” who was born under the rubble after this week’s devastating earthquake destroyed her home in northern Syria, was still recovering in hospital on Friday despite reports that several had come forward to adopt her.
“My w…
After cracking down on Airbnb rentals, tourist buses and red light district tours, Amsterdam now wants to scale back its tolerance for smoking joints in public in an effort to improve the quality of life for locals.
Tourists and residents will no long…
Not since the “Harry Potter” films has a release from the wizarding world been this eagerly awaited. And yet even a vague association of “Hogwarts Legacy” with author J.K. Rowling is making it hard for many would-be fans to enjoy this blockbuster game…
A man prosecutors call “one of New York’s finch-smuggling kingpins” got a year and a day behind bars for his last bird-trafficking bust. Insaf Ali, 62, isn’t a simple bird courier, he’s the boss, federal prosecutors said, and he refused to change his …
The death toll from earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria has climbed above 20,000, a tally that is expected to rise further as crews comb the rubble of thousands of toppled buildings.
Turkey’s disaster agency raised the country’s confirmed death t…
Elian Gonzalez first gained notoriety when on Thanksgiving Day 1999 fisherman rescued the 5-year-old from a flimsy boat floating between Cuba and FloridaHavana (AFP) – Now age 29, Elian Gonzalez has grown up from the child whose 1999 family crisis bec…
Members of the White Helmets search for people trapped beneath destroyed buildings following a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit Syria. Juma Mohammad/IMAGESLIVE via ZUMA Press Wire/dpaMore than 4,200 people died following devastating earthquakes on th…