Headlines- Maxime Prevot, the foreign minister of Belgium, said on Saturday that Palestinians, Catholic delegates, and Western diplomats and officials had been attacked by masked settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
- Three men were sentenced to more than 158 years in prison by a Mexican court on Friday for the 2024 murders of two Australian surfers and their American companion.
- The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
- said it is targeting Houthi positions in Taiz and Marib.
- A missile attack on Aden International Airport put 151 passengers on a Yemenia flight headed for Cairo in danger, the transport minister of Yemen's internationally recognized government said.
- The Amazon rainforest in Brazil has seen the least amount of deforestation in almost 40 years.
- Heidi Levine, a journalist for the Washington Post, was injured on Friday after being assaulted by some Israeli settlers while working in the occupied West Bank.
- Ahead of the country's April 2027 presidential election, French President Emmanuel Macron claimed on Wednesday that political forces are "exploiting" the country's student protesters..
- Authorities said at a press conference that the mass shooting at an elementary school in Bend, Oregon, on Thursday that claimed the lives of three students and one teacher occurred inside a special needs classroom. They also identified the suspected shooter and some of the victims.
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Banned Hong Kong Bookstore Gets New...
Causeway Bay Books Taiwan, founded by exiled Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kei, opened its doors to throngs of customers on Saturday, with a congratulatory bouquet sent by Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen
Wuhan Raises Coronavirus Death Toll Amid...
Eight doctors who tried to warn people of a new viral pneumonia similar to SARS were hauled in by police for questioning in December and accused in state media of “rumor-mongering.”
China Targets Thousands Who Spoke Out...
Since state news agency Xinhua first reported that President Xi Jinping would lead “a people’s war” on the epidemic on Jan. 20, police had handled 5,111 cases of “fabricating and deliberately disseminating false and harmful information,” according to a Feb. 21 statement from the ministry of public security
Wuhan Migrant Workers Who Built COVID-19...
Workers from other parts of China were initially attracted by a promise of 3,000 yuan/day for labor on the two field hospital sites at Leishenshan and Huoshenshan in Wuhan
Jailed Chinese Rights Lawyer May Not...
Li, who had planned to go and meet Wang on Sunday on his release from Linyi Prison, said she now fears that if she does, she won’t be allowed back into Beijing, as the birthplace of mainland Chinese residents is indicated on their national ID card
Wuhan Awaits Lift of Lockdown Amid...
People across China are still waiting for the government to publish figures of the number of people who were asymptomatic when they tested positive for coronavirus
Wuhan Residents Take ‘Zero Cases’ Claim...
Health authorities in China are reporting no new infections in the central city of Wuhan where the COVID-19 epidemic first emerged, but local residents said they fear there could be a resurgence of new cases amid an ongoing official cover-up
China Shuts Down Everest Route, Shifts...
Media reports also highlighted a video conference call between health minister Ma Xiaowei and World Health Organization (WHO) officials, during which he “shared China’s experience in resisting the epidemic.”
Coronavirus Rips Through Chinese Prisons With...
Wuhan Women’s Prison, in Hubei’s provincial capital, was the worst affected, with a total of 230 confirmed cases, while Shayang Hanjin Prison had reported 41 cases, according to official figures
Hospital Director in China’s Wuhan Dies...
Liu Zhiming, director of Wuhan’s Wuchang Hospital, died at 10.10 a.m. on Tuesday at the age of 50. He was the seventh reported healthcare worker to die from the virus since the epidemic first emerged in the city in December