An alternative healer who advocated “slapping therapy” to treat a range of maladies was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for the death of a 71-year-old diabetic woman who stopped taking insulin during one of his workshops.Hongchi Xiao, 61, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence for failing to…

Italian police arrested a nun known for her prison work and 24 other people on Thursday as part of an investigation into the ‘Ndrangheta mafia in the northern city of Brescia, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.They said Sister Anna Donelli, a volunteer in Milan’s San…

JERUSALEM — After Turkey-backed radical Islamist forces seized the pivotal Syrian city of Hama on Thursday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cheered the astonishing military advance of his allies.”I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues,” Erdogan said on Friday, according to a Reuters report.He…

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A top Romanian court annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election after intelligence was declassified alleging that Russia ran a large scale social media campaign to promote the candidate Calin Georgescu.Reformist Elena Lasconi, who Georgescu was due to face in a runoff on Sunday, condemned the court’s decision.In…

A metal detector led to a “first of its kind” ancient discovery in the Netherlands. The finding turned out to be a 10th-century Viking sword fragment, the Fries Museum and the Fryske Akademy announced in a press release. On May 3, 2024, Sander Visser was exploring farmland near Witmarsum, Netherlands, with his…

South Korean lawmakers are calling for suspending the constitutional powers of President Yoon Suk Yeol after his short-lived martial law declaration earlier this week, raising the prospects of impeachment. Opposition parties are pushing for a parliamentary vote on Yoon’s impeachment on Saturday, calling his martial law declaration an “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion…

Canada on Thursday announced a ban on 324 assault-style firearms in a continued effort for more stringent gun control.Leaders in Canada also said that they are working with the government of Ukraine to see how the guns can be donated to support the fight against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”Every bit…

A Mexican actress is dead after voluntarily participating in a spiritual cleansing ritual during which she reportedly consumed poisonous Amazonian frog venom.Marcela Alcázar Rodríguez, 33, took some of the poison as part of a spiritual cleansing return that some South American natives have used for toxic cleansing, according to local…

A Canadian man leaped to the defense of his wife after a polar bear lunged toward her in a dramatic ambush by the animal in rural Ontario.According to the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service, the unidentified couple left their house at around 5 a.m. Tuesday to find their dogs.They were met…