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Israeli police detained two travelers with Belgian passports after airport staff watched the couple seemingly abandon their baby at airport check-in.  The parents arrived at the Ben Gurion Airport to catch a Ryanair flight from Tel Aviv to Brussels, but they had arrived late and check-in had already closed. It …

The Russian city of Volgograd — formerly known as Stalingrad — unveiled a bronze bust of former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin on Wednesday.  The statue was commissioned to honor the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, a major turning point in World War II.  RUSSIA TO REQUIRE BASIC MILITARY …

MANCHESTER, England – Police say they have traced a “key witness” as they continue to search for a missing mom who disappeared five days ago. Nicola Bulley, 45, was last seen on Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, walking her springer spaniel on a path by the River Wyre, in St Michael’s …

A Sudanese teen refugee has been released from a detention center in western Libya where he was held for five months after being kidnapped and tortured by gunmen demanding ransom, his family said Wednesday. Mazen Adam, 15, from Sudan’s conflict-torn Darfur region, walked free on Monday from a juvenile detention …

French special forces boarded an Iranian smuggling vessel bound for Yemen and recovered thousands of assault rifles and anti-tank missiles this month. A French warship halted a suspected smuggling vessel off the Yemeni coast on Jan. 15, sending French special forces operators to board and search the ship. The soldiers …

Ian Maxwell, brother of convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, says allegations of Prince Andrew having a “grand old sex time” with Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre are “ludicrous” due to the size of a bathtub. Giuffre alleges that Ghislaine Maxwell — a British socialite found guilty of collaborating with sex criminal …

Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced several new clean energy initiatives in the government’s annual federal budget speech on Wednesday, saying “green growth” is a top priority for the country. More than $8 billion dollars were announced for projects like mangrove restoration which help suck carbon dioxide out of the …

Australian police plan to ask a judge to ban gay rights protesters from demonstrating outside the funeral of Cardinal George Pell in Sydney on Thursday due to public safety concerns. Pell, who was once considered the third-highest ranking cleric in the Vatican and spent more than a year in prison …

Australian authorities have deployed more personnel and specialized equipment as they continue searching for a small radioactive capsule that fell off a truck somewhere in the Outback.  “Today’s delivery will further boost our search efforts and complement the equipment we have been using since the search started last Thursday,” Darryl …

Italy’s government has increased security around its diplomatic missions around the globe in response to “a crescendo of terroristic attacks” by an anarchist network that has been acting in solidarity with an imprisoned Italian militant, the foreign minister said Tuesday. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani cited nearly a dozen attacks since …