A tourist from the United States was killed by a bull elephant last week during an African safari. Gail Mattson, 79, died Saturday after being attacked at the Kafue National Park in Zambia. Mattson was one member of a six-person safari group that was participating in a game drive that day…

Dozens of Indian construction workers departed for Israel this week as the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas rages on in Gaza.Israel faces a labor shortage after barring tens of thousands of Palestinian workers following a deadly attack by Hamas last October.Approximately 18,000 Indians are currently employed in Israel, primarily…

Tensions between Iran and Israel continue to ratchet up following the strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, with the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) canceling leave for troops and Tehran vowing “revenge” for the attack. “We [have been] dealing with Iran since the 7th of October, and [on] every single front…

LONDON (AP) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three U.K. aid workers in an Israeli strike.Britain is just one…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Kuwait held national elections on Thursday for the fourth time in as many years as the oil-rich country seeks to break out of its longstanding political gridlock.The Persian Gulf country’s elected assembly has more power than most in the Arab world, but has long…

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s federal police said Thursday that they arrested two fugitives who escaped a maximum-security prison in northeastern Brazil, bringing a 50-day manhunt to an end.BRAZILIAN POLICE INVESTIGATE FORMER PRESIDENT BOLSONARO’S ALLIES OVER ALLEGED ELECTION INTERFERENCEIn February, Rogério Mendonça and Deibson Nascimento became the first inmates to…

A senator has slammed the Biden administration’s offer to reverse the Houthis’ designation as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) group in exchange for guaranteeing an end to attacks against Red Sea shipping vessels. “The Houthi terrorists and their Iranian benefactors have tried to shut down global trade in the Red…

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s move to sign into law the results of a recent referendum laying claim to two-thirds of Guyana triggered fierce condemnation Thursday from the neighboring South American country’s government.The text of the law was not immediately made public. Even so, Guyana’s Ministry of…

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Three activists of Viasna, the main human rights group in harshly repressive Belarus, have been arrested and charged with participating in an extremist organization, state television reported Thursday.The arrests were the latest in a long campaign by authorities to stifle opposition and independent media in the…

IDLIB, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber set off his explosives late on Thursday in northwestern Syria, killing the co-founder of the country’s main al-Qaida-linked group that controls much of the northwest, a war monitor said.Some activists disputed the source of the explosion, saying instead that a remotely detonated bomb…