British crime fighters cracked a money-laundering network that they say moved more than £100 million, equivalent to $125 million. A London court found two men guilty of illegal smuggling last week, taking convictions in the network of cash couriers to 16, according to the National Crime Agency.
SEE MORETAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwan has elected as its president Lai Ching-te, once a scrappy advocate for Taiwanese independence, now a key proponent factor of the Democratic Progressive Party’s assiduous efforts to maintain peace and order symbolically with Beijing while repelling its aggression.
SEE MORECzech police and emergency services said a shooter had been “eliminated” after killing at least10 people and wounding two dozen more at a university in the capital, Prague.
SEE MOREAfter weeks of rumbling and ominous signals,A volcanic eruption in southwest Iceland was diminishing Tuesday,Authorities said, but it could noneheless continue for hours or days.
SEE MORESmugglers have sawed through the U.S border wall here so many times lately that parts of the barrier look like something out of a sculpture garden or a Mad Max Fury Movie. Scraps of metal have been welded to the bars at odd angels by repair crews trying to hold the structure together. Along One badly disfigured segment spanning about 100 feet of the border, the wall has been cut 41 times.
SEE MOREDefense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv on Monday, as the Pentagon said he planned to discuss ways for Israel to mitigate civilian harm in Gaza and what the war’s next phase will look like.
SEE MOREPope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, a significant advance for LGBT people in the Roman Catholic Church. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church said priests should be permitted to bless same-sex and "irregular" couples, under certain circumstances. But the Vatican said blessings should not be part of regular Church rituals or related to civil unions or weddings.
SEE MORECongress this week approved a measure aimed at preventing any U.S. president from unilaterally withdrawing the United States from NATO without congressional approval.
SEE MOREIsraeli soldiers fighting in the Shejaiya neighborhood east of Gaza City mistakenly shot dead three hostages captured in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement Friday.
SEE MOREThis year, Peru suffered its worst unexpected outbreak of dengue in recorded history — a plague that some researchers say could be linked to record-breaking temperatures and precipitation driven by climate change. More than 250,000 people got infected and the inability to adapt to the change at least Killed 430 from the illness, which attacks the joints without a warning.
SEE MOREPrince Harry was the victim of phone hacking and other unlawful media practices by Mirror Group Newspapers, a high court judge ruled Friday 15th December 2023, awarding the king’s younger son 140,600 pounds ($179,500) in damages.
SEE MORERussian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia wants “to reach an agreement” on the return of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is currently in Russian custody on an allegation of espionage that he, the Journal and the U.S. government vehemently deny.
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