The regional source suggested that while the deal was closer than ever, it was not fully formed yet. US and Israeli officials cautioned no green light had been given to mediators yet. In recent days Hezbollah has been considering a US-Israeli proposal for a 60-day pause in fighting that some hope could form the basis…
The engine of a Russian-made passenger plane caught fire after landing at southern Turkey’s Antalya Airport on Sunday, the Turkish transport ministry said in a statement. The ministry said landings at the airport were suspended until 3 a.m. local time while authorities towed the plane from the runway. All 89 passengers and six crew were…
The father of an Australian teenager who died from methanol poisoning while on a backpacking holiday has issued a plea to the Laos government to fully investigate his daughter’s death and ensure such incidents don’t happen again. Bianca Jones, 19, was one of six foreign tourists who died in a suspected mass methanol poisoning in…
“The city’s special services are working at the scene and leading the rescue efforts, as well as crews from the Vilnius Airport Fire Service,” the airport spokesperson said. The incident happened at about 5.30 a.m. local time (10 p.m. ET) near Zirniu Street, south of the capital. The spokesperson said due to “ongoing rescue work…
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…
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 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…
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…
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….
Venezuelan authorities are investigating opposition leader Maria Corina Machado for alleged treason after she expressed support for a US bipartisan bill that seeks to block Washington from doing business with any entity that has commercial ties with the government of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro. In a statement, the country’s Attorney General’s Office said Machado’s support…
