The family of one of the Israeli hostages who were recently freed from the Gaza Strip after being held there for eight months has disclosed details about their son’s time in captivity. Andrey Kozlov, one of four hostages freed in an Israeli military operation on Saturday, was tied up for two months during his captivity, […]
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — They arrived in the middle of the day, when the squat concrete buildings of the Nuseirat refugee camp are stifling and the narrow streets outside are filled with people. No one suspected a thing until the shots rang out. The Israeli raid caught everyone off guard, from the Hamas […]
Families in Israel whose loved ones have been either killed by Palestinian Islamist Hamas militia or who remain in captivity in Gaza criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for meeting with freed hostages but not with families of other victims. A leading opposition politician joined in the criticism. “When you are prime minister, you are the […]
Four Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas from the Nova music festival during the 7 October attacks have been rescued in a daylight raid deep in central Gaza. Noa Argamani, 25, Almog Meir Jan, 21, Andrei Kozlov, 27, and Shlomi Ziv, 40, were freed during a “high-risk, complex mission” from two separate buildings in the Nuseirat […]
The African National Congress party has lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result on Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago. With nearly 99 per cent of votes counted, the once-dominant ANC […]
A recently freed man who spent more than 12 years in prison for a fatal South Side shooting in which a legally blind witness identified him as the perpetrator is suing the city of Chicago and several police officers over their handling of the murder investigation. Darien Harris is seeking compensation in a federal civil […]
CAIRO (AP) — The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen on Sunday released more than 100 war prisoners linked to the country’s long-running conflict, the International Committee of the Red Cross said. The unilateral release came more than a year after Yemen’s warring sides freed more than 800 prisoners in a major exchange in the country […]
A Pennsylvania man who faced a minimum of 12 years behind bars for bringing ammunition into the nation of Turks and Caicos is expected to be set free after paying a fine, a judge ruled Friday. Bryan Hagerich, 39, was given a suspended sentence of 52 weeks by a judge who cited exceptional circumstances in […]
It took three hours on Tuesday for firefighters to rescue a man who was trapped up to his chest in a grain silo east of Salem. Marion County Fire District No. 1 said they received a call at 1:30 p.m. that a man, who they did not name, was unable to remove himself from the […]
ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– One person was rushed to the hospital after crews freed them from the wreckage in a crash in Adams County Wednesday morning. There was a motor vehicle crash with entrapment at the 200 block of Boyd School Road in Cumberland Township just after 10 a.m., Gettysburg Fire wrote in a Facebook […]
HONG KONG — A Chinese citizen journalist who was jailed over her reporting on the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic was due to be released Monday after four years in prison, supporters said. Zhang Zhan, a former lawyer from Shanghai, went to the central Chinese city of Wuhan in February 2020 to cover the […]
A worker has been rescued from the debris of a collapsed building in the South African city of George after being trapped for nearly five days. Rescuers were able to make contact with the man and give him water after hearing someone inside the rubble. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said Saturday’s rescue was the […]