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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save The United States abstained Friday on a painfully negotiated U.N. Security Council resolution on Gaza, allowing passage of a measure designed to rapidly expand and facilitate humanitarian aid to a Palestinian civilian population now said to be close to famine. The measure also reiterated a […]

Joe Biden emphasised the disproportionate nature of sentences, noting that individuals would have received significantly shorter terms if charged today Biden commutes sentences of 11 convicted of Marijuana-related offences.—marijuanamoment President Joe Biden is set to commute the sentences of 11 individuals serving excessively long terms for nonviolent drug offences, with additional pardons for marijuana-related offences,

One person was injured at a hospital in Virginia when a man who had come to the facility for a mental health evaluation Friday began shooting, police said. Richmond Police Chief Rick Edwards told reporters that a 911 call came in at 4:11 a.m. of shots fired at Chippenham Hospital. Officers who were already in

French authorities grounded a flight from the United Arab Emirates to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers after receiving a tip that it could be carrying victims of human trafficking, prosecutors said Friday. Special investigators are questioning all those aboard and two people are in custody pending further examination, the Paris prosecutor’s office said in a

The United States on Friday abstained from a vote on a United Nations Security Council resolution in support of an indefinite pause in fighting to allow the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza. The vote came after a series of delays, with Washington — Israel’s stalwart ally — negotiating language that it would not feel

Prague shooting: 24-year-old Kozak is described as an excellent student with no criminal record Images and videos on social media show eight students perched on a ledge to hide from the gunman (L) and David Kozak has been identified as the gunman (R).—Instagram/Czech Police Prague shooter, David Kozak, 24, reportedly forst gunned down his father and

Just months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, an al Qaeda supporter snuck onto American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with explosives packed into his shoes, but his failed attempt to detonate spared the lives of nearly 200 people and sent him to prison for the rest of his life. According to

A prolific child serial killer sentenced in England, hundreds of dead bodies recovered from a Christian cult in Kenya, and a violent takedown of El Chapo’s son in Mexico were among some of the most notable crime stories from around the world this year. Four Americans were kidnapped in Mexico by cartels shortly after crossing