Police guard the gated community where a plane crashed in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Police patrol the street leading to the gated community where a plane crashed in Vinhedo, Sao Paulo state, Brazil, Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Police stand along the street leading to…
FILE – Peru’s jailed, former President Alberto Fujimori, photographed through a glass window, attends his trial at a police base on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, June 28, 2016. Former President Fujimori, who was pardoned in December from his convictions for corruption and responsibility for the murder of 25 people, plans to run for Peru’s…
Fugitive Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has left Spain for Belgium after briefly addressing supporters in Barcelona, his party said Friday, leaving questions over how he evaded arrest again. Puigdemont, who fled abroad after leading a failed 2017 independence bid for Catalonia, defied an arrest warrant to return to Spain on Thursday. He delivered a speech to…
Sajad Ahmad Kumar, right, shows a photo of his brother, Azad Yousuf Kumar, who left his village in Indian-administered Kashmir in December after being lured by a false job to fight the war in Ukraine. Credit – Faisal Bashir—SOPA Images / Getty Images Ravi Moun was excited to travel to Russia from his small village…
Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro has blocked in the country after claiming that the platform’s owner had incited hatred and “violated” his own social network’s rules. “Shame on Dictator Maduro,” who that the incumbent president had committed “major election fraud.” Maduro, who also argued that his rivals were using the platform to stoke political unrest, said…
A British terror suspect has been deported to the UK after completing a lengthy prison sentence in Kenya. Jermaine Grant, 41, was arrested in London on Thursday after arriving on a flight from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. He was jailed in 2011 after bomb-making equipment was discovered in his flat in Mombasa, a Kenyan coastal city….
[Source] Anna Zhang, an immigrant from Thailand, became the latest victim in a series of recent attacks targeting Asian passengers on Auckland, New Zealand, buses. What happened: Zhang, a student and part-time hotel worker, was allegedly assaulted by a group of teenagers who attempted to rob her on a No. 70 bus traveling from Botany…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont was back in Belgium on Friday. his lawyer said, after he evaded arrest in Spain for the second time in seven years with a dramatic dash into a getaway car following a public appearance in Barcelona. Puigdemont made a much-anticipated return to Spain this week despite…
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday accused Poland’s previous government of illegally spending 100 billion Polish zlotys ($25 billion) as he announced a government effort to try to recover the money. Tusk said that six months of investigations and audits had revealed widespread financial abuse, with 62 members of the previous…
Bullseye NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been shooting lasers at Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) in an attempt to hit a retroreflector mounted right beneath the lander’s solar panels. This tiny, dome-shaped device called a Laser Retroreflector Array is a surprisingly simple contraption with an important job. It’s designed to reflect light, revealing…
VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, the airline said, but it was not immediately clear how many people were injured or killed. The airline VOEPASS confirmed in a statement that a plane headed…
The Olympic Games are entering their final days and French rail infrastructure manager SNCF is preparing to resume its summer works schedule the day after the closing ceremony. SNCF Network [Network] said it is working on 14 projects in the Hautes-de-France, the nation’s most northerly region. “SNCF Réseau is committed this summer 2024 through 14…
PISA, ITALY (WHTM) — No, it wasn’t supposed to lean. The Tower of Pisa (Torre di Pisa) is the freestanding bell tower, or campanile, of Pisa Cathedral. It took almost 200 years to complete. Get daily news, weather, breaking news and alerts straight to your inbox! Sign up for the abc27 newsletters here The foundations…
France is facing one of the worst wheat harvests of the past 40 years after a winter of rain and storms, according to a forecast released by the Ministry of Agriculture on Friday. Losses of nearly 25% compared to the past five-year average are expected for soft wheat, which accounts for nearly half of the…
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the African continent and beyond: A contestant warms up on stage on Sunday in preparation for a slap fighting match in Kagiso township, west of South Africa’s main city, Johannesburg… [James Oatway / Reuters] In the real fight, a penalty is awarded whenever the person being…
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has managed to flee Spain and is heading for Belgium, despite a large police presence and a warrant for his arrest, leading to recriminations among security officials who apologized on Friday. His plan is to continue working from the Belgian town of Waterloo, the secretary general of Puigdemont’s Together for…
Ukrainian troops remained in Russia’s western Kursk region on Friday night, as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day. The Russian defence ministry said it was “continuing to repel” Ukraine’s military, which it claimed had lost more than 280 personnel in the past 24 hours – a figure…
Brazil and Nicaragua have expelled each other’s ambassadors in a tit-for-tat diplomatic row, as Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, appears to recalibrate his approach to authoritarian leftist rulers who were once seen as allies. The dual expulsions this week came amid growing tensions between Lula and another supposedly progressive leader, Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro,…
An Israeli drone struck a car deep inside southern Lebanon on Friday, killing a Hamas member, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said. The head of Hamas security inside the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh, 40 kilometers south of Beirut, was killed in a drone attack which fired two missiles at his four-wheel drive, a…
The News A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed in Brazil’s São Paulo state Friday, the country’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in a video posted on X. It was not immediately clear how many people were killed or injured. The plane had been traveling from the southern city of Cascavel to the…
BERLIN (AP) — All Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin had with him when he was released from his penal colony in a swap was his toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste, his expired passport and the prison garb he was wearing. But he has hit the ground running. Within days of arriving in Germany, Yashin not…
A passenger airplane went down near São Paulo, Brazil, at 2 p.m. local time on Friday. CNN Brazil reports that 62 people were on board. Footage shared on social media shows a plane spiraling straight down from the clouds. Fire was visible across its fuselage and smoke filled the sky behind it. The plane, which…
Huge amounts of dead fish have been found in a reservoir in Poland near the Oder River, where wildlife was devastated by toxic algae in the summer of 2022. More than 14.5 tons of fish was recovered in recent days in the Dzierzno Duże reservoir, which branches off from the Gliwice Canal connecting to the…
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Friday accused the former Law and Justice (PiS) party of misappropriating billions in public funds during its eight years in power. Inspectors from the financial administration are currently scrutinizing 90 state institutions, Tusk said in Warsaw. According to him, the PiS government spent the equivalent of $25 billion illegally….
MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox’s hand-written memo at the center of her latest retrial for falsely accusing a Congolese bar owner in the 2007 murder of her British housemate contained enough elements for her to be reconvicted of slander in June, an Italian appeals court said Friday. The slander conviction is the only one remaining…
NASA is wrestling over how and when to bring two astronauts back from the International Space Station, after repeatedly delaying their return aboard Boeing’s troubled capsule. Do they take a chance and send them home soon in Boeing’s Starliner? Or wait and bring them back next year with SpaceX? Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have…
Israel has withdrawn the diplomatic status of eight Norwegian representatives responsible for Norway’s relations with the Palestinian Territories, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem announced on Thursday. The ministry said that Foreign Minister Israel Katz had informed Norway that he was cancelling the diplomatic status of Norwegian representatives based in Israel who dealt with the territories….
President Volodymyr Zelensky has made his first comments on the advance of Ukrainian troops into the Russian border region of Kursk. “Russia brought the war to our land, and it should feel what it has done,” Zelensky said in his evening video message. He did not mention the fighting by Ukrainian soldiers on Russian territory…
Three days into Ukraine’s cross-border attack on Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Moscow must “feel” the consequences for its invasion of Ukraine. “Russia brought the war to our land and should feel what it has done”, Mr Zelensky said in his Thursday evening address, without directly referencing the Ukrainian offensive. “Ukrainians…
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Business groups in Mexico warned Thursday of economic damage to companies and thousands of regular citizens as a protest blockade of Mexico’s main east-west highway reached its second full day. Farmers blockaded the highway between Mexico City and Puebla Tuesday. By Thursday, some truckers and drivers had spent almost two full…
