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Mexican authorities in at least one major city have taken steps to improve security ahead of a busy tourist season and spring break as high crime remains a chief concern.  “We strengthen security with the construction of three filters at points marked by the heat map, such as the accesses …

Dashcam footage captured the moment another earthquake hit Turkey on Monday. The 70mai video seems normal, with men having a conversation in a parked car on the side of a lighted street. However, about eight seconds into the video, the streetlights go out and then the vehicle begins to rock …

A former fighter with the Kosovo Liberation Army was responsible for the murder of one person and the illegal detention and torture of nearly 20 more during his country’s war for independence from Serbia, an international prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of a war crimes trial. The defendant, Pjetёr …

The main crossing on the Afghan-Pakistan border remained shut Tuesday for the third straight day, officials said, after Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers earlier this week closed the key trade route and exchanged fire with Pakistani border guards. The closure has added to increasing tensions between the two neighboring countries and concerns …

Human rights advocates on Tuesday urged South Korea to offer radiation exposure tests to hundreds of North Korean escapees who had lived near the country’s nuclear testing ground. Tests conducted by the South Korean government on 40 people in 2017 and 2018 found at least nine of them had abnormalities …

A spectacular collection of centuries-old Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Southeast Asian country, the latest treasures to be retrieved from the estate of well-known antiquities collector and dealer Douglas Latchford, who was accused of buying and selling looted artifacts. Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts announced Monday …

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that Russia was pulling back from the new START treaty with the United States which reduces and limits each country’s nuclear arsenal. “In this regard, I am forced to announce today that Russia is suspending its participation in the strategic offensive arms treaty,” Putin …

Senior aides to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been engaged in secret talks for nearly two months in an effort to mitigate tensions in the West Bank, according to an Axios report.  The White House is said to have been updated about the “backchannel.” …

An Irish inquest found that a man who died in April 2022, was attacked by a rooster with a history of attacking people, according to reports. The Irish Examiner in Cork, Ireland, reported that Jasper Kraus was allegedly attacked by a Brahma chicken that was moved to his property in …

Suspected separatist gunmen have killed at least eight police officers over the past three days in southeast Nigeria, authorities said Monday, raising concerns ahead of weekend presidential elections. Four officers were killed in an attack at a station in Anambra state Monday, while authorities searched for suspects accused of killing …