Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the U.N Human Rights office to suspend operations and gave staff 72 hours to leave the country. (Feb 15). Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the U.N Human Rights office to suspend operations and gave staff 72 hours to leave the country. (Feb 15). Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The shooting after the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration that killed one woman and injured more than 20 people appears to have stemmed from a dispute, police said Thursday. Shots rang out at the end of the celebration outside the city’s historic Union Station. Fans had lined the parade
SAO PAULO (AP) — Two inmates escaped from a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil, the first time detainees manage to escape from one of the country’s five maximum security federal penitentiaries, authorities said Thursday.Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said 300 security agents are involved in the search for Rogério da Silva Mendonça and Deibson Cabral
JERUSALEM (AP) — The families of two Palestinian-American teenagers killed in separate but eerily similar incidents in the West Bank say investigators from the American Embassy have visited their homes to look into the shootings.Launching American probes into the killings of Mohammad Khdour and Tawfic Abdel Jabbar reflects what appears to be a lack of
NEW YORK (AP) — As some of the world’s biggest economies stumble into recession, the United States keeps chugging along. Both Japan and the United Kingdom said Thursday their economies likely weakened during the final three months of 2023. For each, it would be the second straight quarter that’s happened, which fits one lay definition
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House publicly confirmed on Thursday that Russia has obtained a “troubling” emerging anti-satellite weapon but said it cannot directly cause “physical destruction” on Earth.White House national security spokesman John Kirby said U.S. intelligence officials have information that Russia has obtained the capability but that such a weapon is not currently
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel on Thursday urged the United Nations’ highest court to reject an urgent South African request to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah breach provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide.South Africa asked the International Court of Justice
BOSTON (AP) — With back-to-back Super Bowl victories for the hometown Chiefs, Kansas City football fans gathered for another championship parade and a second celebratory pep rally in a row.Don’t expect there to be a third.Not because the Chiefs, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes still just 28 years old, can’t win another NFL title. But
WASHINGTON (AP) — The kind of systemic failures that enabled the high-profile prison deaths of notorious gangster Whitey Bulger and financier Jeffrey Epstein also contributed to the deaths of hundreds of other federal prisoners over the years, a watchdog report released Thursday found. Mental health care, emergency responses and the detection of contraband drugs and
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s top election authority on Thursday voided the government’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling for December, ruling that the moves were unconstitutional.Senegal’s Constitutional Council cancelled the decree signed by President Macky Sall that postponed the election, according to a judgement approved by seven members
