Mourners chanted “Death to America” at the funeral service for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday in the nation’s capital of Tehran. President Raisi, Iran’s foreign minister and others were killed Sunday in a helicopter crash. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei presided over the service at Tehran University, where caskets of the dead draped in Iranian flags were seen …
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Indira Gandhi, a prominent Indian politician and the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s inaugural prime minister, was tragically assassinated by her own bodyguards on Oct. 31, 1984. Born Nov. 19, 1917, she emerged as a central figure in her country’s political landscape, eventually becoming prime minister in her father’s footsteps. The trust she placed in her favorite Sikh security guard, …
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Prosecutors in Mexico say they have found the bodies of four men and two women piled up on a street in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco. The victims, who were strangled and had their hands tied behind their backs, were discovered late Monday. The killings remain under investigation and their identities have not been released. Last week, five dismembered …
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The first lady of Syria, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukemia, according to the nation’s top officials. Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has been forced to temporarily withdraw from public life for the time being due to the disease. She was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and will “adhere to a specialized treatment protocol that includes …
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Video shows several Iranians celebrating President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in the streets even as thousands participate in mass demonstrations mourning the controversial leader. Fireworks are launched in the night, a woman passes out sweets and several people can be heard cheering in the video posted online by opponents of the regime after Raisi died Sunday in a helicopter crash that …
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The United Nations flag was lowered to half-staff Tuesday in honor of the late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash Monday. Raisi, nicknamed the “Butcher of Tehran” for his oversight of mass executions of political prisoners in 1988, died along with Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other Iranian officials who were in the helicopter when it …
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Ninety percent of paralyzed patients regained strength or function in their upper limbs after receiving an experimental therapy, a new study found. After receiving spinal cord simulation from ONWARD Medical’s ARC-EX system, the participants saw “significant improvement” in their hand and arm function, according to a press release. The study, published on Monday in Nature Medicine, included 65 participants at …
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A Virginia man has pleaded guilty to one count of possession of ammunition in Turks and Caicos (TCI) after airport security found stray bullets in his luggage as he prepared to fly home last month. Five Americans have been arrested and detained since February for possessing ammunition on the islands under a new ordinance that requires both residents and tourists …
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) should be defunded over its decision to pursue arrest warrants againstIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before it targets the United States, according to ex-National Security Council official Richard Goldberg. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan announced Monday that his office has “reasonable grounds” to believe Netanyahu, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders have committed “war …
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The extreme heatwave in Mexico is not only affecting the environment, it’s wreaking havoc on the howler monkeys and causing them to fall dead out of trees, the Associated Press reported. “They were falling out of the trees like apples. They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes,” wildlife biologist Gilberto Pozo …
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