MILAN – Italy’s flagship airline Alitalia said a 24-hour strike called for Monday that will force flight cancellations is “disrespectful” of passengers when the Rome airport is still suffering disruptions due to a fire two weeks ago. Alitalia said in a statement Saturday the strike is falsely evoking the threat …
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – A Danish radio station has been met with a storm of angry protests after its hosts claimed they clubbed a young rabbit to death on air with a bicycle pump. Co-host Kristoffer Eriksen from public broadcaster Radio24syv said the Monday morning show stunt was aimed at initiating …
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UNITED NATIONS – A new U.N. report says Sudan’s government “refused to allow” an emergency medical evacuation for an injured peacekeeper who died the same day, the latest sign of worsening relations as Sudan’s president wants the mission out of the country. The secretary-general’s latest report on the joint U.N.-African …
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UNITED NATIONS – A fact-finding team with the global chemical weapons watchdog is going to Syria to look into recent allegations of attacks using toxic chemicals. The latest monthly report of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it received a letter from the Syrian government May 21 …
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Indi Gregory, the 8-month-old infant who was forced off life support by the United Kingdom courts system, was baptized before her death despite her family not originally being religious. Dean Gregory, Indi’s father, said before her death that he was inspired to baptize his daughter by Christian legal volunteers who …
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Hamas on Wednesday handed over 16 more hostages — including 12 Israelis — on the last day of an extended cease-fire with Israel. The latest round of hostages included a group of 10 Israeli women and children, and four Thai nationals. Hamas handed over the hostages to the Israeli military …
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A man in Pakistan was found dead after zoo staff saw that a big cat had a shoe in its mouth. The incident happened Wednesday at Bahawalpur’s Sherbagh Zoo, which is located in the Punjab province, according to CBS News. Zaheer Anwar, a government official, told media outlets that zoo …
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A Russian aircraft traveling from Moscow with radioactive cargo was forced to return to its point of origin due to a reported mechanical failure. The UTair plane — reportedly carrying just under 42 pounds of radioactive cargo — was scheduled to travel from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow to Khanty-Mansiysk. It …
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YOLA, Nigeria – A Nigerian civil defense official says a bomb blast near a market in the northeast Nigerian city of Yola has killed 31 people. Sa’ad Bello of the National Emergency Management Agency said Friday another 38 people are being treated in the hospitals. There was no immediate claim …
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RABAT, Morocco – Authorities say 11 teenagers have drowned in the Atlantic during a beach outing just south of the Moroccan capital after they were carried away by waves. The report by the state news agency said five bodies have been recovered and six others are still missing and presumed …
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