The hostages who have been freed by Hamas from the Gaza Strip were given tranquilizer pills before being transferred to Israel in a bid to make them appear happier following their treatment in captivity, a report says. Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, the head of the Israeli Ministry of Health’s medical division, told…

Kim Jong Un delivered a speech honoring North Korean mothers this week, praising their role in shaping good communists for the regime.The supreme leader spoke at the Fifth National Conference of Mothers on Monday, honoring recipients of the Communist Mother Honour Prize.”The credit for the brilliant today of our country…

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a recent interview that the Western military alliance should “be prepared for bad news” in the Ukraine war ahead of the winter months. “Wars develop in phases,” Stoltenberg told German broadcaster ARD in an interview Saturday, according to Politico Europe. “We have to support Ukraine…

A kangaroo that had been on the run for several days in Canada was captured by police on Monday, shortly after the animal punched an officer in the face during an attempt to catch it.A pair of kangaroos were being transported in a truck to a zoo in Quebec on…

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin reportedly told TF1 television on Sunday that the country was “durably under threat from Islamist terrorism” after a prosecutor identified the French 26-year-old born to Iranian parents accused of fatally stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others steps away from the Eiffel Tower in…

The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday.Impala Platinum said that the worker died Sunday from injuries sustained when the elevator plummeted around 650 feet…

Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embalo issued a decree Monday dissolving the nation’s opposition-led parliament.Embalo used a shootout between loyalist and parliament-controlled troops that occurred last week to justify the power grab.”The date for holding the next legislative elections will be set in due time in accordance with the provisions of…

A small twin-engine plane was forced to make an emergency landing Monday in the southern Paris suburbs, France’s civil aviation safety agency said.French media said the aircraft landed near a populated area in the town of Villejuif.FRENCH MINISTER WARNS COUNTRY ‘DURABLY UNDER THREAT FROM ISLAMIST TERRORISM’ AFTER PARIS STABBING SUSPECT…

The bodies of five young men were found stuffed in a vehicle on a dirt road in north-central Mexico, authorities said.Diego Sinhue Rodríguez, the governor of the state of Guanajuato, pledged an “exhaustive” investigation into the killings.The car and the bodies were found Sunday in a rural area on the…

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to address U.S. senators Tuesday during a classified briefing. The briefing, which will include secretaries of Defense, State and other top national security officials, comes as the Biden administration has been pushing Congress to pass a $106 billion aid package for the wars in Ukraine,…