Israel launches Gaza strikes after rockets fired at Tel Aviv
Israeli military aircraft bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on Friday, hours after two rockets were launched at Tel Aviv in the first such attack since a 2014 war. Following the overnight exchanges, sirens sounded again in Israeli border towns after dawn broke. The Israeli military said its Iron Dome defence system intercepted […]
African nun scolds bishops on their errors at Vatican abuse summit
An African nun scolded Roman Catholic bishops on Saturday for many mistakes in handling the sexual abuse crisis, saying the Church had to acknowledge its “mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency”. Sister Veronica Openibo, a Nigerian who has worked in Africa, Europe and the United States, spoke with a soft voice but had a strong message for […]
Trial of Vietnamese woman accused of killing Kim Jong Nam to continue
A Vietnamese woman will continue her trial for the murder of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, after Malaysian prosecutors rejected a request from Vietnam to free her on Thursday. The Vietnamese government had made the call after Doan Thi Huong’s co-accused, Indonesian woman Siti Aisyah, was released on Monday. Huong and […]
College student falls to his death from hotel balcony while vacationing in Cancun
A college student on spring break died after he fell from the seventh floor of his hotel balcony in Cancun, authorities in Mexico said. Ahmed Altaii, 19, of Dearborn, Michigan, was vacationing with his girlfriend, Heidi Newman, when the incident happened Saturday night, the Mexican Municipal Secretariat of Public Security and Transit told NBC-affiliate WDIV. […]
