The discovery of a severed horse head, and a cow quartered with its bloodied dead calf on top, have rattled a Sicilian town, with authorities treating the incident as a mafia threat. The gruesome scene was reminiscent of the 1972 film “The Godfather” where a character wakes up to find a decapitated head of a…
The Israeli Prime Minister’s office says that an Israeli citizen living in the United Arab Emirates has been missing for two days. The PMO said in a statement Saturday that Zvi Kogan, an Israeli-Moldovan citizen, had been missing since Thursday afternoon. Kogan is a representative of Chabad, a religious movement of Hasidic Jews with communities,…
The police chief in a small town in central Mexico took his own life Friday as troops closed in to arrest him as part of anticorruption raids that also detained several other top police commanders and a mayor in other towns. The massive, near-simultaneous raids, which federal officials called “Operation Swarm,” took place in two…
Kirra Pendergast talks to thousands of teenagers each year in her role as a cyber safety educator. She knows what they get up to online – the texting, the bullying, the sextortion, the threats – but nothing prepared her for the hostility she faced this month in a roomful of students ages 12 and 13….
Armed and hooded members of the Venezuelan security forces have surrounded Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, according to leaders of the country’s opposition. Six members of the opposition are currently taking refuge in the embassy, having fled there to escape a crackdown by Venezuelan authorities in the run-up to July’s presidential elections. Pedro Urruchurtu, who has…
Bitcoin achieved five new all-time high prices this week, boosted by a wave of renewed optimism and growing confidence in the future of the cryptocurrency. Meanwhile, MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) increased its Bitcoin holdings, sending its share price to record-high valuations, and a major development in Google’s (NASDAQ:GOOGL) anti-trust trial weighed heavily on investors. 1. Bitcoin nears…
Weighing in on Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s November 14 comments, she said he remains steadfast in his message that while inflation is coming down to the Fed’s 2 percent target, there’s a bumpy path ahead that will require patience. ‘I think the idea here is not so much to hang onto every single word he’s…
Israeli strikes on northern and central Gaza killed at least 87 Palestinians in 24 hours, local health authorities said, as the death toll in the enclave surpassed 44,000. In an interview with Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV, he said about 200 people were believed to have been at the site when the Israeli military struck. “The hospital…
Human error led to the death of a young gorilla in Alberta, Canada, according to officials at the Calgary Zoo. Eyare, a 2-year-old western lowland gorilla, died last week after being struck in the head by a hydraulic door a staff member accidentally activated, the zoo said in a statement Wednesday. The worker was trying…
The Nicaraguan parliament, dominated by the ruling Sandinista Front, on Friday approved a constitutional reform that hands more power to President Daniel Ortega as well as the Central American nation’s police and military. The reform increases the president’s control over the media, extends the presidential term to six years from five, and changes the roles…
