MILE CREEK, Montana: A Montana hiker reported missing earlier this week was found dead following a suspected attack by a grizzly bear. In an interview with CNN, Sheriff Brad Bichler of the Park County Sheriff’s Office said Craig Clouatre, 40, and a friend were hiking on March 23 in the Six Mile Creek area, some […]

SEOUL, South Korea: North Korea has announced that it tested a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile, marking an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range testing in place since 2017 and attracting international condemnation. North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un directly guided the test of the Hwasong-17, a “new type” of […]

DUBAI, UAE: A giant diamond, nicknamed, The Rock, went on display for the first time in Dubai, prior to an auction where it is expected to fetch up to $30 million. Auction house Christie’s said the pear-shaped diamond, weighing 228.31-carat and mined and polished in South Africa more than 20 years ago, is the largest […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: In an open letter delivered to the White House last week, the CEOs of major U.S. airlines urged President Biden to drop his “outdated” federal mask mandate for those flying on airplanes, as well as for inside airports. The letter was signed by the CEOs of Alaska Air, American Airlines, Atlas Air Worldwide, […]

YANGON, Myanmar – According to new research published on Thursday, Myanmar’s army and the police deliberately killed civilians opposed to its rule in the six months following the February 2021 coup. This policy amounts to crimes against humanity. The rights group Fortify Rights and Yale Law School’s Schell Center for International Human Rights published “Nowhere […]

KABUL, Afghanistan: The Taliban has reversed their decision to allow girls to return to high schools, stating they would remain closed until a new plan can be drafted, in line with Islamic law. Amidst the Taliban administration seeking international recognition, the announcement took many by surprise and was condemned by humanitarian agencies, rights groups and […]

IRVINE, California: A 113-pound mountain lion shocked customers at an Irvine, California hair salon after running past the shop and later striking a glass window. Elliot Matthews, an employee at Bishops Cuts and Colors in Sand Canyon Plaza, said, “I was standing at the front desk and a client says, ‘Oh my God.’ All I […]

MANILA, Philippines: Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s political party has thrown their support behind election frontrunner Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s candidacy in the upcoming May 9 election. The PDP-Laban party has not fielded its own candidate, but announced support to Marcos, the son and namesake of the country’s late dictator, who is running alongside Duterte’s daughter, Davao […]

WASHINGTON D.C.: NASA scientists have announced that they have identified more than 5,000 planets existing beyond Earth’s solar system, adding that the Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009 and retired in 2018, has by itself led to the discovery of more than 2,600 planets. In the announcement this week, Jessie Christiansen, research scientist with the […]

GENEVA, Switzerland: Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in North Korea, has asked the communist country to release those Koreans believed to be languishing in political prison camps. “I have heard accounts that…the system, the political regime in North Korea, would not survive without the existence of political prison camps,” Ojea Quintana […]