French authorities grounded a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers after receiving a tip that it could be carrying victims of human trafficking, prosecutors said Friday. Special investigators are questioning all those aboard and two people are in custody pending further examination, the Paris …
Read More »2 teens killed in reportedly 'targeted' Massachusetts shooting, police say
Two teenagers were shot and killed Wednesday in Lynn, Massachusetts, according to investigators. At about 10:21 p.m., police received several emergency calls reporting shots fired. Police responding to the address said they found two male victims suffering from gunshot wounds. The two were taken to North Shore Medical Center. The …
Read More »Feds blame 2021 DC derailment on 'poor safety culture'
A top federal transportation safety official on Thursday harshly criticized Washington’s regional transit agency, saying a “poor safety culture” led to an October 2021 derailment that caused hundreds of new Metro railcars to be pulled from service. A final National Transportation Safety Board report on the incident concluded that the …
Read More »Giant pandas set to return to California in 2024, China’s foreign minister says
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday that the United States and China must insist on peaceful coexistence and transcend their differences like they did when they established diplomatic relations 45 years ago this week. Wang also promised that giant pandas would return to the U.S. — and specifically California …
Read More »Boston police commander reaches $2.4 million settlement in gender discrimination lawsuit
Boston has reached a $2.4 million settlement with a high ranking female police commander who accused the department of gender discrimination, her lawyer said Wednesday. Beth Donovan, the first woman to reach the rank of deputy superintendent of the police department’s Bureau of Field Services, was demoted to sergeant from …
Read More »Stacks of bodies, fluids and flies found at Colorado funeral home, FBI agent says
Investigators who entered a Colorado funeral home where nearly 200 abandoned bodies were found encountered stacks of partially covered human remains, bodily fluids several inches deep on the floor, and flies and maggots throughout the building, an FBI agent testified Thursday. Twenty-three of the bodies had death dates from 2019 …
Read More »Former French President Sarkozy begins a 5-year prison sentence for campaign finance conspiracy
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday to begin serving a five-year sentence for a criminal conspiracy to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya — a historic moment that makes him the first ex-leader of modern France to be imprisoned. Sarkozy, 70, …
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