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Viral videos posted online show rhinos aggressively chasing visitors in India safari parks as the drivers do their best to outrace the beasts.  In the first video, filmed on Dec. 30, 2022, a rhino in the Manas National Park in Assam, India charged at tourists while they were in a …

A 10-year-old Australian boy remained in a coma Friday following a collision earlier this week between two helicopters that killed four people, including the boy’s mother. Another boy, age 9, who was hospitalized in critical condition after the crash, awoke Thursday after suffering brain trauma, according to health authorities. The …

Dozens of Christian graves were found defaced and toppled at a historic cemetery in Jerusalem and Israeli police say they have arrested two people related to the crime. Police officers were sent to the Protestant cemetery on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion to investigate the crime at a site that is associated …

A Beijing hospital has run out of beds, forcing patients to rest on stretchers or lay on the hallway floors as COVID-19 infections run rampant in the country and stretch thin the public health sectors’ resources. “We have no beds, we have no oxygen, and we have a room full …

Officials in Taiwan say that 17 Chinese military aircraft along with three ships entered an area close to the island on Friday morning local time amid an increase in tension. The Taiwan Ministry of National Defense said the aircraft and ships were detected around 6 a.m., adding that officials have …

A Mexican cartel leader was killed in a shootout with police early Thursday, days after a violent escape from prison, according to reports.  Intelligence forces tracked down Ernesto Alfredo Pinon de la Cruz – known as “El Neto” – in the border town of Ciudad Juárez where he was ultimately killed …

Head of Russia’s mercenary Wagner Group released the first round of convicts who traded jail time for the war in Ukraine, reports said Thursday.  A video was posted by Russian state-owned media RIA showed Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin addressing the convicted recruits dressed in military fatigues and shaking hands with …

The son of notorious Mexican drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán was nabbed Thursday after a six-month interagency investigation, Mexican authorities confirmed.  During an afternoon press conference, Defense Secretary Luis Cresencio Sandoval said Guzmán’s son – whom he only identified as “Ovidio” – was arrested early Thursday morning northwest …

A total of three cruise ships over the past few weeks in Australian waters have been denied entry into New Zealand and forced to change itineraries due to a buildup of marine fungus. The Seven Seas Explorer, a luxury cruise ship in the Regent Seven Seas Cruises fleet, was denied …

Germany is working on legislation to enable the use of the much-discussed technology of underground carbon storage, a top government official said Thursday, adding that it is preferable to releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Speaking to an industry group in Norway, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who is also Germany’s …