India has finally released a pigeon suspected of spying for China after the bird spent eight months in police custody. The bird was held under lock and key at Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals in Mumbai while police carried out an investigation. The pigeon was caught at a port in the financial capital,…
China has executed a couple who fatally threw two children out of the window of an apartment building. Zhang Bo – the father of the children – and Ye Chengchen were previously found guilty of killing the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy in 2020. Zhang had begun an affair with Ye and later divorced his…
Almost nine decades after the plane was stolen by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, the Italian government has officially returned Ethiopia’s first plane. The official handover of the aircraft, named Tsehay in honour of the princess daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie, was celebrated on Tuesday by the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed. “Today is a day…
China’s worldwide predominance in electric vehicles assisted it with overwhelming Japan as the world’s greatest vehicle exporter last year, official information affirmed Wednesday. Japanese goliaths, for example, Toyota and Nissan have been significantly more careful than their Chinese partners, as BYD on electric vehicles (EVs), banking rather on half and half models. Figures delivered Wednesday…
A court has heard that Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay was shot dead more than two decades ago by his godson as revenge for being cut out of a drug deal. Karl Jordan Jr, 40, and another man, Ronald Washington, 59, have gone on trial in New York accused of murder. In their opening statements…
North Korea fired another round of cruise missiles on Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, extending a recent flurry of tests of weapons that analysts warned could be destined for Russia’s war in Ukraine. This month, Pyongyang has conducted tests of what it called an “underwater nuclear weapon system”, a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile, and a new…
The US government has released the names of three troops killed by an enemy drone attack in Jordan on Sunday. They are 46 year old Sgt William Jerome Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23. The three were killed when a drone hit their housing unit. The US has blamed…
Israeli forces have killed three militants inside a hospital in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. CCTV footage showed members of an undercover unit disguised as medics and other civilians making their way through a corridor with rifles raised. The Israeli military said the militants were hiding in the hospital, and that one was about…
A British-Nigerian minister, MP Kate Osamor, has been suspended following her accusation against Israel of genocide on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day. Osamor, representing Edmonton, faced backlash for suggesting in her weekly newsletter that Gaza should be included in the list of ‘recent genocides’. Osamor shared a photo of herself signing the Holocaust Education…
Spanish police have busted the owners of a funeral parlour in Valencia for allegedly selling dead bodies to university research departments for 1,200 euros per corpse. The four suspects, two owners and two employees, also helped the universities dispose of the bodies after they had been studied by incinerating them or disposing of their dismembered…
