Mexican authorities announced Monday the discovery of the bodies of a human rights activist and her husband, six months after they were reported missing in the southern state of Oaxaca. The Oaxaca State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that lawyer and activist Sandra Estefana Domínguez Martínez and her husband Alexander Hernández Hernández were found Thursday in the municipality of Santiago Sochiapan in neighboring Veracruz State. The bodies were found in two graves and authorities waited until testing confirmed their identities before announcing the discovery. The couple were last seen Oct. 4, in the town of María Lombardo de Caso, in eastern...
Army Veteran Convicted Of Killing Girlfriend And Her 3 Children Set To Be Executed In Florida
An Army combat veteran whose Gulf War experience triggered severe mental problems is scheduled to be executed Thursday in Florida for the shotgun killings of his girlfriend and her three young children in 1998. Barring a last-minute reprieve, Jeffrey Hutchinson is set to receive a lethal injection starting at 6 p.m. Thursday at Florida State Prison near Starke. The execution, if carried out, will be the fourth in Florida this year under death warrants signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, with a fifth execution planned for May 15. Hutchinson, 62, has long claimed he is innocent and that two unknown assailants perpetrated the killings...
Kuwait Frees 10 More Americans In The Second Release In As Many Months
Kuwait has released an additional 10 American detainees, bringing to nearly two dozen the total number freed by the country in the past two months, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.The pardons of 23 Americans, done as a goodwill gesture by a U.S. ally, have yielded a quick succession of prisoner releases in the early months of a Trump administration that has sought to make hostage and detainee issues a foreign policy priority.The prisoners, both men and women, include military contractors and veterans held for years on drug charges and other offenses by the small, oil-rich nation. One...
Iran Executes A Man Convicted Of Spying For The Israeli Mossad
Iran executed Wednesday a man it said worked for Israel’s foreign intelligence agency and played a role in the 2022 killing of a Revolutionary Guard colonel in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. The report identified the man as Mohsen Langarneshin and said he was hanged. It called him a “senior spy” for the Mossad who provided “technical support” in the assassination of Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, shot five times by gunmen on a motorbike outside his home in Tehran. The agency said the Mossad recruited Langarneshin in 2020 and that he met with Israeli intelligence officers in Georgia...
State Secretary Calls India And Pakistan In Effort To Defuse Crisis Over Kashmir Attack.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called senior officials in India and Pakistan in an effort to defuse the crisis that followed last week’s deadly attack in Kashmir, the State Department said. Rubio urged Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to de-escalate tensions on Wednesday. India has vowed to punish Pakistan after accusing it of backing the attack, which Islamabad denies. The nuclear-armed rivals have since expelled each other’s diplomats and citizens, ordered the border shut and closed their airspace to each other. New Delhi has suspended a crucial water-sharing treaty with Islamabad. Soldiers on each...
“We Are Witnessing The Greatest Manmade Economic Crisis In Modern Presidential History.”— Kamala Harris Condemns Trump Administration 100 Days In Office.
Marking her return to the public glare, former United State Vice President Kamala Harris condemned the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term on Wednesday Harris in her statement claimed that Trump had pulled America to the verge of a constitutional crisis, devastated the economy and abandoned world allies “The American people deserve leaders who make their lives better, and make our country stronger. But sadly, we have seen quite the opposite over these past few months.” The former V.P. intoned
Christian Organization Long Plagued By Allegations Of Child Sex Abuse Faces Another Lawsuit
A Florida-based Christian organization with a history of child sex abuse allegations against it has been hit with a lawsuit claiming one of its missionaries sexually assaulted a minor overseas 15 years ago. Ethnos360, a nonprofit formerly known as New Tribes Mission, sends missionaries and their families throughout the globe. In 2019, multiple women told NBC News that they had been sexually abused decades earlier by their “dorm dads” — missionaries who were supposed to care for children at the mission’s boarding schools while their parents served in foreign countries. The group settled several suits related to those allegations and issued a public...
Fan In Critical Condition After Falling From Clemente Wall At Pirates Game
A man was in critical condition after he plunged around 20 feet from the stands to the ground at a Pittsburgh Pirates home game at PNC Park on Wednesday, officials said. The man was seen tumbling in the air before he landed on the warning track area of right field during the seventh inning, stopping the game as players looked shocked. He was taken to Allegheny General Hospital, where he was in critical condition, a spokesperson for Pittsburgh Public Safety said. The Pirates said in a statement, “Pittsburgh EMS, as well as the Pirates and Cubs athletic training teams and...
U.S. And Ukraine Sign Long-Awaited Minerals Deal
The White House announced Wednesday night that it had signed an economic partnership with Ukraine that includes an agreement on the ownership and extraction of natural resources from the war-torn nation. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the agreement, established as the United States-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, will allow the United States to “invest alongside Ukraine” to unlock its growth assets and ultimately accelerate its economic recovery. “As the President has said, the United States is committed to helping facilitate the end of this cruel and senseless war. This agreement signals clearly to Russia that the Trump Administration is committed to a peace process...
“The Darkest Moments Of Illness Can Be Illuminated By The Greatest Compassion”—King Charles Sends Heartfelt Message To Fellow Cancer Patients
King Charles has sent a personal message to fellow cancer patients, speaking of the “daunting and at times frightening experience” for cancer sufferers and their loved ones. In a heartfelt message to guests at a Buckingham Palace reception for cancer charities, the King spoke about becoming a cancer “statistic” – referencing the more than 1,000 new cases recorded in the UK every day. He said his experience of living with cancer had shown that “the darkest moments of illness can be illuminated by the greatest compassion”. The message doesn’t provide an update on the progress of the King’s own cancer...