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A magistrate in Zambia on Thursday granted bail to eight Croatian nationals charged with child trafficking. Magistrate David Makalicha in Ndola, in the mineral-rich Copperbelt province, said the eight should each pay about $1,000 bail and surrender their passports to the court. The eight were named as Damir Magic, 44, …

Europeans are feeling the pinch of multiple crises, with nearly half of them saying they have already seen a decline in their standard of living. A staggering 46% of Europeans living in the European Union bloc of countries say their standard of living has recently decreased, while 45% say they …

The mayor of Mexico City announced Thursday that 6,060 National Guard officers will be posted in the city’s subway system after a series of accidents that officials suggested could be due to sabotage. Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said mechanical problems in recent months may have been due to “not normal” causes. …

A shirtless man went viral on social media after being caught on video brawling with another man on a Boeing 777. The fight, initially posted on Twitter two weeks ago, showed a shirtless man punching another passenger during a struggle on a flight operated by Biman Bangladesh Airlines, New York …

A British actress has admitted to driving under the influence but says she only did to avoid being forced into a threesome. Honeysuckle Weeks, 43, was out drinking in November when, she said, she was invited to stay the night with friends in the town of Arundel, England, but she …

The notorious terrorist and member of the ISIS cell dubbed “The Beatles,” who was serving a life sentence for the kidnap, torture and murder of western journalists and aid workers in Syria, has disappeared from the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), Fox News Digital confirmed Thursday.   Alexanda Kotey, 39, …

Iranian authorities may be using new technology to help enforce the country’s strict dress code for women, expanding the use of facial recognition technology to issue fines and other penalties for those breaking the rules. “Many people haven’t been arrested in the streets,” Shaparak Shajarizadeh, who fled from Iran to …

Mexico City police said Wednesday an extortion and drug-dealing gang was behind the Dec. 15 shooting attack on one of Mexico’s best-known journalists. Police Chief Omar Garcia Harfuch said 11 people had been detained in connection with the attack on a vehicle driven by journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva. The little-known …

Several harrowing videos of heavy waves battering cruise ships in the Drake Passage as passengers look on have gone viral in recent months, serving as a reminder that the high-priced cruises to Antarctica, while breathtaking, take passengers through arguably the most treacherous waters in the world. In early December, a …

Iran has sentenced a former senior defense official to death after convicting him on charges of spying for Britain, state-linked media reported on Wednesday. The judiciary said Ali Reza Akbari, who was deputy defense minister until 2001, was a “key spy” for British intelligence, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported. …