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In this file photo, pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted into a Correctional Services van outside the Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on Feb. 1, 2021. — AFP via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — After more than three years in prison, pro-democracy activist and media mogul Jimmy Lai’s long-awaited and delayed national […]

An attendee wearing a Bitcoin necklace during the Adopting Bitcoin 2023 Summit in San Salvador, El Salvador, Nov. 7, 2023. (Camilo Freedman/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — El Salvador says it’s now making a profit on the Bitcoin investments at the center of President Nayib Bukele’s economic and social reforms, a surprising turnaround for […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For three Israelis who have been waiting two months for the safe return of their families from Hamas captivity, this year’s Hannukah celebrations have been anything but joyful. Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise terror attack on […]

A student writes on a blackboard during a class at Averroes high school in Lille, northern France on Sept. 28, 2023. (Sameer Al-doumy/AFP via Getty Images) (PARIS) — Opened 20 years ago and voted best high school in France in 2013, with baccalaureate success rates between 97% and 100% each year, the Averroès school group […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended on Dec. 1, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, […]

Nancy Brown/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces said they mistakenly killed three hostages during combat this week in Shejaiya, Gaza, spokesman Daniel Hagari said during a press briefing Friday. The three men killed have been identified as 28-year old Yotam Haim; 26-year old Alon Shamriz; and 22-year old Samer Talalka. Haim is survived […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (ROME) — The Vatican city court on Saturday sentenced Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once touted as a possible papal contender, to 5 1/2 years in prison for mismanaging a Vatican property portfolio which included a luxury flat in London. Becciu, the former Substitute for General Affairs in the Vatican Secretariat of State, is […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Ukrainian military’s ammunition stocks are now running so low that units are unable to respond to Russian attacks, according to a prominent member of Ukraine’s Parliament. Alexandra Ustinova said Ukraine today has half the munitions in its arsenal that it had a year ago with supplies of ammunition from […]

JeanUrsula/Getty Images (WASHINGTON)– The U.S. military accused the Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen of having fired a ballistic missile at a container ship in the Red Sea Thursday in the latest provocation that is raising tensions in the region. “Midday Dec. 14 (Sanaa time), a ballistic missile was fired from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen […]

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex leaves from the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain’s High Court, in central London on March 27, 2023. (Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images, FILE) (LONDON) — A U.K. judge on Friday issued a ruling in Prince Harry’s lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Daily Mirror, saying the Duke […]