By AP News A Florida judge sentenced a 16-year-old Florida boy to life in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a 13-year-old female classmate on Mother’s Day in 2021. Aiden Fucci, 16, was 14 when he stabbed Tristyn Bailey at least 114 times in the woods near where the teens lived in north Florida, prosecutors […]
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Today’s Top News Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition plunged into chaos after mass overnight protests over the sacking of his defense chief piled pressure on the government to halt its bitterly contested plans to overhaul the judiciary. NATO slammed Vladimir Putin for “dangerous” nuclear rhetoric after the Russian president announced plans to station tactical nuclear […]
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NEW YORK (AP) — A cleric arrested in his native Jamaica and extradited to New York to face state terrorism charges on accusations of recruiting support for the Islamic State group was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison. Abdullah el-Faisal was convicted in January in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on counts including soliciting […]
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RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has canceled his trip to China after contracting pneumonia, the presidential palace said on Saturday. Lula, 77, was admitted to a hospital in the capital of Brasilia with flu-like symptoms and was diagnosed with “bacterial and viral bronchopneumonia due to influenza A,” the […]
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By DAVID BILLER A woman, center, holds a sign that reads in Portuguese “A paradise that cannot become a private enterprise,” during a protest against the installation of a zip line on Sugar Loaf Mountain, an iconic of the city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, March 26, 2023. (AP […]
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By Dave Sherwood A woman walks to cast her vote at a polling station during the legislative elections in Havana, Cuba, March 26, 2023. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini HAVANA, March 26 (Reuters) – Upwards of 70% of eligible Cubans had cast ballots by late Sunday afternoon in an election for the 470 lawmakers who will represent them […]
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By Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang TAOYUAN, Taiwan, March 27 (Reuters) – Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou left for China on Monday on a landmark trip, saying he hoped to bring about peace and improve relations through the interactions of young people. Ma, in office from 2008-2016, will be the first former or current Taiwanese […]
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Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered to pay five million Brazilian Reals (£780,000) for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton. The 70-year-old Brazilian used a racially offensive term in referring to Hamilton in an interview in 2021. Hamilton called for “archaic mindsets” to change after the footage surfaced. Piquet […]
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By Toby Luckhurst BBC News Every Sunday morning for nearly five decades, millions of Mexican families gathered around their televisions to watch Chabelo. The squeaky-voiced, short-wearing child character was played by Mexican actor, entertainer and businessman Xavier López Rodriguez, who died on Saturday at the age of 88. His children’s game show En Familia con […]
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has warned that an escalation in violent rhetoric by former President Trump has the potential “to get someone killed.” Trump, who is under investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) related to hush money payments to an adult film actress, had written hours earlier that charges brought against […]
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