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Christopher Pike/Bloomberg via Getty Images (DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — A 21-year-old New York City college student has been sentenced to prison time in the United Arab Emirates over an altercation at a Dubai airport, an advocacy group said. Elizabeth Polanco De Los Santos, a student at Lehman College in the Bronx, was sentenced to one […]

Andrea Mantovani/Bloomberg via Getty Images (LONDON) — The City of Light is battling an infestation of bedbugs as it prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Videos recently posted on social media purportedly show the tiny, bloodsucking insects crawling on public transport in Paris and even in Charles de Gaulle Airport. With the Olympic Games […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) — Eleven people have died following a roof collapse at a church in Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. Everyone else has been removed from the debris, Mexican officials said Monday. The collapse, which trapped between 30 to 40 people, happened at the Iglesia Santa Cruz Church, a Catholic […]

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images (TAMAULIPAS, Mexico) — Ten people have died following a roof collapse at a church in Mexico on Sunday, according to local authorities. The collapse, which trapped between 30 to 40 people, happened at the Iglesia Santa Cruz Church, a Catholic church in Madero, Tamaulipas, Mexico, Mexican officials confirmed to ABC News. A […]

bergserg/Getty Images (LONDON) — Virtually the entire ethnic Armenian population of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh has fled, with the last buses carrying refugees having left on Monday, according to Russia’s peacekeeping force deployed there. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians left the enclave in the last week, according to local officials, abandoning their homes after […]

Westend61/Getty Images (LONDON) — Pro-Russia hackers have claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that crashed the British royal family’s website over the weekend. The website, royal.uk, went down for over an hour on Sunday morning due to a denial-of-service attack, a tactic for overwhelming a machine or network to make it unavailable, a royal source […]

Aldo Pavan/Getty Images/STOCK (KORNIDZOR, Armenia) — Over 100,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh as of Saturday, local authorities said, with it now appearing that virtually the entire Armenian population from the enclave will leave, abandoning their homes after Azerbaijan, backed by Turkey, recaptured the region last week with a military offensive. About 85% of the […]

WIN-Initiative/Neleman/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Friday marks six months since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested and detained by Russian authorities on espionage charges, allegations that Gershkovich, the WSJ, the U.S. government and dozens of international news organizations have vehemently denied. Gershkovich remains behind bars in Moscow’s notorious Lefortovo prison. In March, Gershkovich, […]

SIRANUSH ADAMYAN/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Over 93,000 ethnic Armenian refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh as of Friday, local authorities said, meaning 75% of the disputed enclave’s entire population has now left in less than a week. Tens of thousands of ethnic Armenians have been streaming out of Nagorno-Karabakh following Azerbaijan’s successful military operation last […]

Craig Lovell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Embassy of Cuba in Washington, D.C., was “the target of a terrorist attack,” when two Molotov cocktails were tossed at the building on Sunday night, according to Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla. Embassy staff “suffered no harm” and “details are being worked out,” Rodríguez Parrilla said […]