Juanita Castro, the sister of Cuban dictators Fidel and Raúl Castro who worked with the CIA to undermine their communist government, died Monday. She was 90.Castro, an expatriate who spent most of her life in Miami, was confirmed dead by María Antonieta Collins, who co-wrote Castro’s 2009 book, Fidel and…

A man in Pakistan was found dead after zoo staff saw that a big cat had a shoe in its mouth.The incident happened Wednesday at Bahawalpur’s Sherbagh Zoo, which is located in the Punjab province, according to CBS News.Zaheer Anwar, a government official, told media outlets that zoo staff were…

A gondola in Venice, Italy, capsized after tourists didn’t listen to warnings to sit down and stop taking selfies.According to The Guardian, a group of tourists from China were taking selfies and moving around the gondola when orders were given to sit down.The gondolier was attempting to navigate the small…

Authorities say dengue fever is on the rise in Mali, posing a new threat to the West African nation struggling with extremist attacks and political turbulence.The director general of health and public hygiene, Dr. Cheick Amadou Tidiane Traore, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that his department had…

A massive fire broke out Wednesday at a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops, police and rescue officials said.The fire started at a furniture store and quickly engulfed other shops on the ground floor of the…

U.S. federal authorities said Wednesday that they detained 48 Haitian migrants who were abandoned by smugglers on an uninhabited island between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.EX-DEA INFORMANT PLEADS GUILTY IN HAITIAN PRESIDENT’S 2021 ASSASSINATIONU.S. Customs and Border Protection said park rangers on Mona Island alerted authorities to the arrival…

The British government apologized Wednesday to relatives of the 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.Downing Street’s apology comes amid claims officials are delaying their response to a 2017 report aimed at ensuring future tragedies are handled more transparently than the stadium crush incident.Calls to implement legal…

The opposition in Albania on Wednesday spoke up at the Constitutional Court against the ratification of a contentious deal the government has signed with Italy to jointly process some asylum applications of migrants arriving in Italy by sea.Last month, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni announced…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that his country’s military is now “encircling” the home of Hamas’ leader in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar. “Last night I said that our forces can reach anywhere in the Gaza Strip. Now they are encircling Sinwar’s house. So his house is not his…

Charities and NGOs supplying military aid to Ukraine’s armed forces are facing delays of several weeks to critical supplies of drones, electronics and pickup trucks due to border protests by Polish truckers, three industry sources told Reuters.Thousands of trucks carrying commercial goods have been backed up for weeks at Poland’s…