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ISLAMABAD —  Taliban authorities in northeastern Afghanistan said Wednesday that a gun attack resulted in the death of a Chinese national, while his local interpreter escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based Islamic State affiliate, IS-Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the deadly overnight shooting in Takhar province, which sits on the country’s border with Tajikistan. The terrorist outfit said on its Amaq media outlet that its “soldiers” used a machine gun to target the Chinese man. Taliban officials said the slain foreigner was working for a mining company in the country. Mohammad Akbar, the provincial police chief, said the Chinese citizen was being driven…

The southern states of the U.S. are facing a winter storm this week that will bring heavy snow and ice to a region that rarely experiences such conditions. More than 220 million people are expected to be affected from Texas to South Carolina. Several states, including Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, have each already declared a state of emergency following cold weather advisories and warnings from the National Weather Service (NWS). Texas has also ordered its agencies to prepare resources. More than 2,200 domestic flights were cancelled by Jan. 21Tuesday, BBC reported, citing online tracker FlightAware. On…

Police in Kenya have arrested a man carrying a mutilated corpse in his backpack, which he reportedly said belonged to his 19-year-old wife.Officers came across 29-year-old John Kiama Wambua while patrolling Huruma, a district east of Nairobi, just before dawn.Suspecting Wambua was carrying something illegal, they searched his backpack and “to their shock” found the body parts, said a statement from Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI).This is far from an isolated case – Kenya has one of the highest rates of femicide, or killings with a gender-related motivation, in Africa. After police officers interrogated Mr Wambua, he told them…

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – In September 2024, Vida Livre Institute, a wildlife rescue center, received an unusual call from the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden staff. They were sending over two monkeys who were behaving strangely and had to be assessed by the Institute’s veterinarian. After running a few tests, the vet confirmed that the animals had been drugged in broad daylight, in one of Rio’s most popular green spaces.This tactic is often employed by poachers to sell animals as pets in local markets or online. A quick search on Instagram reveals videos of monkeys dressed in diapers, showcasing…

Mayeni Jones & Khanyisile NgcoboBBC News, Johannesburg & LondonReutersPraise poets honour the servicemen, more than a century after World War OneHundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century.The 1,772 men worked in dangerous and gruelling non-combatant roles in East Africa but until now, they had no known grave or commemoration.Individually engraved timber posts now bear each serviceman’s name at the new memorial.Princess Anne, president of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), unveiled the memorial at a moving…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A woman accused with her husband of forcing their adopted children to perform hard farm labor denied confining two of the children to a shed despite police finding them in the structure behind a locked door, news outlets reported.Jeanne Kay Whitefeather took the stand Tuesday as the second week began in the trial of her and her husband, Donald Ray Lantz. They are accused of mistreating four of the five children, all of whom are Black. Whitefeather and Lantz, who are white, each face more than a dozen felony counts that include forced labor, civil rights…

When the sun is blazing and the wind is blowing, Germany’s solar and wind power plants swing into high gear. For nine days in July 2023, renewables produced more than 70% of the electricity generated in the country; there are times when wind turbines even need to be turned off to avoid overloading the grid. But on other days, clouds mute solar energy down to a flicker and wind turbines languish. For nearly a week in January 2023, renewable energy generation fell to less than 30% of the nation’s total, and gas-, oil- and coal-powered plants revved up to pick…

(Beirut) – Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today.On January 8, 2025, the Iranian Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, who is accused of membership in in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) and “armed rebellion against the state” through arm efforts to advance the goals of groups opposing the state. Amir Raesian, Azizi’s lawyer, in an interview with Shargh Daily on January 8 said that Branch 39 of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence without considering the numerous flaws in the case…

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said.“He was a devoted agent who served with honor and bravery,” a family statement provided to The Associated Press late Tuesday said. “He had a tremendous respect and pride for the work he did; he truly embodied service over self.” CORRECTS TO JOAN MALAND INSTEAD OF MUSSA – This undated image courtesy of Joan Maland shows U.S. Border Patrol agent David…

Shaken, not stirred: That’s how fictional secret service agent James Bond prefers his martini. And now there’s a lizard in the Caribbean that shares his name: the James Bond forest lizard, found close to where author Ian Fleming wrote his iconic Bond novels. Researchers recently described the new species alongside 34 others in a 306-page study that has shaken up what researchers understand about Caribbean lizards. The taxonomy of neotropical forest lizards, those found in Central and South America and the Caribbean islands, remains poorly understood, the study’s authors write. Among these are lizards from the subfamily Celestinae,…