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The bodies of 32 Cubans killed during the US military invention in Venezuela have arrived in Cuba for military ceremonies and burials.The Cubans were working as protection officers for Nicolás Maduro, when he was removed from Venezuelan soil and taken to the US to face drug trafficking charges. The soldiers’ remains will be received with military honours and taken to the Ministry of the Armed Forces in Havana, where the public can pay their respects.The BBC’s Will Grant is in Cuba’s capital city, where people lined the streets to pay tribute.More on this story. Source link
Guy Hedgecoein Adamuz, southern SpainReutersSpain’s King Felipe (far right) visited the crash site with Queen Letizia on TuesdaySunday’s high-speed train crash in southern Spain, the worst in over a decade, has been a devastating tragedy for the country, with the loss of at least 42 lives.And amid the grief, many are asking what could have caused such a failure on one of Europe’s most admired rail systems.The CIAF rail investigatory commission has started analysing why a train travelling north from Málaga was derailed on a straight section of the route, causing it to collide with an oncoming train, which was…
Sally Fairfax,in Market Weighton,andPaul Johnson,East Yorkshire and LincolnshireGetty ImagesA statue of Francisco de Miranda in Caracas, VenezuelaIt was an unlikely romance: he was a Venezuelan revolutionary and she was a shoemaker’s daughter from rural East Yorkshire. But together, Francisco de Miranda and Sarah Andrews helped pave the way for South American independence.After the US said the president of Venezuela was captured during an operation earlier this month, damage was reported at an airbase named after a much earlier leader of that country.General Francisco de Miranda is known as the “First Universal Venezuelan” and played a key role in the fight…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Illinois residents are once again being reminded how fragile government data systems can be. The Illinois Department of Human Services has confirmed a data breach that exposed sensitive records belonging to roughly 700,000 people.The breach is believed to have exposed two distinct sets of records. One is personal and program-related data tied to more than 672,000 Medicaid and Medicare Savings Program recipients, including addresses, case numbers, demographic details and medical assistance plan names, and another 32,000 Division of Rehabilitation Services customers whose names, addresses, case details and referral information were also exposed…
Bernd Debusmann Jrat the White HouseGetty ImagesWhen one-time Democrat Sam Negron headed to the polls to cast a ballot for Donald Trump in 2024, he did so with one thing on his mind above all – the economy.”I didn’t like paying $7 for eggs,” said Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable in the majority-Latino city of Allentown. “But basically it was all his talking points… making the US a strong country again.”Negron, who switched to the Republican Party in 2019 after decades as a Democrat, was not alone.When Trump pulled off a decisive electoral victory in 2024, he did so with…
Bulldozers leveled some structures in a compound that belonged to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, escalating Israel’s crackdown on the organization. Source link
A tribunal in Colombia has sentenced a former paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, to 40 years in prison for murders and forced disappearances committed at the height of the country’s armed conflict.Mancuso was a commander in the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary group originally created to defend landowners from attacks by Marxist guerrilla groups, which became involved in drug trafficking.The tribunal found that under his command, AUC members committed more than 100 crimes in La Guajira povince between 2002 and 2006.Mancuso was sent back to Colombia in 2024 after serving a 15-year prison sentence in the US…
The head of aid coordination office, OCHA, in the country, Paola Emerson, told reporters in Geneva that more than half a million people have been impacted by the floods, triggered by heavy rains in the first weeks of the new year.“The numbers keep rising as extensive flooding continues and dams keep releasing water to avoid bursting,” she said.Mozambique’s Gaza province is most affected along with Maputo and Sofala provinces.‘Melting’ housesSpeaking from Xai-Xai, Gaza’s capital city, Ms. Emerson stressed that 90 per cent of the country’s people live in adobe houses, which are earth-based structures “that basically melt after a few…
Responding to the dramatic development, head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees Philippe Lazzarini described it as an “unprecedented attack” against the UN, whose premises are protected under international law.The move represents “a new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law, including of the privileges and immunities of the United Nations, by the State of Israel”, the UNRWA Commissioner-General said on X.The same thing could happen to any other organization or diplomatic mission “anywhere around the world”, Mr. Lazzarini warned. “This must be a wake-up call,” he stressed. Human rights chief’s ‘outrage’Echoing those concerns, UN High Commissioner…
Naaja Nathanielsen, Greenland’s minister for industry, raw materials, mining, energy, law enforcement and equality, addresses MPs at a meeting in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) room, in the Houses of Parliament, Westminster, organised by the APPG for Greenland following US threats to take over the territory.James Manning – Pa Images | Pa Images | Getty ImagesGreenlanders are “bewildered” by U.S. President Donald Trump’s “devastating” bid to annex the Arctic island, its business minister has told CNBC, as the issue turns into a geopolitical firestorm.Speaking to CNBC on Tuesday ahead of Trump addressing the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Naaja…
As the government moves to assert control over areas under Kurdish rule, it will be the latest test of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s pledge to form an inclusive administration that empowers minorities. Source link
The Syrian Democratic Forces withdrew abruptly from the sprawling Al Hol camp, according to Syrian and Kurdish officials, during a conflict with the government. Source link
Watch: Veronika the cow shows off her unique skillsScientists are rethinking what cattle are capable of after an Austrian cow named Veronika was found to use tools with impressive skill. The discovery, reported by researchers in Vienna, suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.Veronika, a cow living in a mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of scratching herself using sticks, rakes, and brooms. Word of her behaviour eventually reached animal intelligence specialists in Vienna, who found Veronika used both ends of the same object for different tasks. Antonio J Osuna…
As the government moves to assert control over areas under Kurdish rule, it will be the latest test of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s pledge to form an inclusive administration that empowers minorities. Source link
Christian groups said gunmen abducted congregants during Sunday services at three churches, but security and government officials dismissed the reports as fear-mongering. Source link
ReutersZelensky said repelling Monday night’s attack had cost Ukraine about €80m (£69m) just in terms of air defence missilesA large Russian aerial strike on Ukraine has again left half of Kyiv’s residential buildings without heating or power as temperatures across the country continue to hover around -10C.Drones, ballistic and cruise missiles targeted several locations in Ukraine, including Kyiv, Dnipro in the centre and Odesa in the south.Air raid alerts in the capital lasted for most of the night. On Tuesday, sirens rang out again as Russian drones and cruise missiles approached the capital.President Volodymyr Zelensky said a “significant number” of…
A series of text exchanges between Donald Trump and European leaders about ownership of Greenland have sensationally been released. The US president has pledged to tell European leaders at this week’s forum in Davos, Switzerland, that “we will have to have” Greenland. Messages released on Monday between Trump and Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Støre revealed the president no longer felt obliged to think only of peace after he was not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year. On Tuesday, Trump has posted his own text exchanges with French President Emmanuel Macron and Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte. Here are the…
Temperatures in the country have dropped to around -20C. Source link
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! For the first time, Americans with depression will soon be able to use a prescription brain-stimulation device at home. The approval comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and marks a major shift in how mental health conditions may be treated. The newly approved device is called FL-100, and it comes from Flow Neuroscience. It is designed for adults 18 and older with moderate to severe major depressive disorder. Clinicians can prescribe it as a stand-alone treatment or alongside antidepressants and therapy. This decision matters because depression affects more than 20 million adults…
A bombing that killed seven people and injured a dozen more at a noodle restaurant in a busy area of Kabul is likely to heighten China’s growing security concerns in Afghanistan. Source link
Watch: At the scene of Spain’s worst rail disaster in over a decadeHeavy machinery is being used to assist in the recovery following a two-train crash in southern Spain which killed at least 41 people.Rescuers worked through a second night as more bodies are feared to be trapped in the wreckage. More than 120 people were injured when carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, hitting an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening.A faulty or damaged weld on a rail is being investigated as a factor in the crash, Spanish media report.Prime Minister…
The government approved plans for a massive new Chinese Embassy near Tower Bridge, disappointing critics who fear it will enable spying. Source link
French officials have made their first interception on the water as part of a new policy aimed at stopping small boats carrying illegal migrants to the UK.A so-called “taxi-boat” was boarded by French officers on Saturday on the Aa canal in Gravelines, which is on the Channel coast above Calais.It follows a change of tactics agreed in November following growing pressure from the UK government to step up interventions.A photograph of the aftermath of the operation obtained by the BBC shows a number of men – apparently people-smugglers – on an inflatable dinghy with the police launch alongside. The inflatable…
The aurora borealis has animated myths, art, poetry and music for thousands of years. Here are some examples. Source link
