A collision between a semitruck and an SUV carrying more than two dozen people near the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday morning has left 15 dead and several others injured, officials said. Twenty-seven people were in the SUV when it struck a tractor-trailer hauling gravel, said Judy...
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Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls released unharmed following armed mass kidnapping
Hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls abducted last week from a boarding school in the north-western Zamfara state have been released. Key points: Gunmen kidnapped more than 300 Nigerian schoolgirls on Friday The girls were freed unharmed and will be reunited with their families Witnesses say the...
With new mass detentions, every prominent Hong Kong activist is now either in jail or exile
Then, on Sunday afternoon, the Hong Kong pro-democracy activists fanned out to police stations across the territory, where more than 40 of them were officially charged with “conspiracy to commit subversion” under the national security law, according to police. They were detained immediately, will be...
Anxious wait after mass child abduction
The parents of more than 300 girls who were abducted from a boarding school by armed men now face a horrific wait to see if they can be saved. Parents of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren could only wait for news on Saturday, as...
Anxious wait for news after mass child abduction
Parents of more than 300 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren could only wait for news on Saturday, as more than 40 others seized elsewhere more than a week ago were freed. Hundreds of schoolgirls were abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria on Friday in the country’s latest...
Anthem Development Ceases, BioWare to Focus on Dragon Age, Mass Effect – IGN
After over a year of internal overhaul on Anthem, EA and BioWare have decided to stop development on the 2019 action-RPG, and move on to other projects. In an announcement today penned by executive producer Christian Dailey, he explains that the decision to quit work...
‘Digital waiting room’ added to mass vaccination site scheduling system
Approximately 50,000 new appointments for first doses of COVID-19 vaccines at mass vaccination sites will be opened for booking on Thursday and Gov. Charlie Baker said the state has taken steps to improve the stability of the booking websites.Last week, the state’s online directory of...
Russia’s Putin, Belarus’ Lukashenko spark backlash for skiing, snowboarding during mass protests
From Minsk to Moscow, there has been an extended season of discontent, so the images of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarussian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko shushing down ski slopes and snowboarding in the mountains around Sochi evoked some strong reaction. There were meetings, of...