Authorities said Tuesday they had dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Mafia in the Sicilian capital by arresting 46 people, including the man presumed to have taken over as provincial kingpin after the death of “boss of bosses” Salvatore “Toto” Riina. Based on wiretaps, Italian police determined that Settimo… Read More
Battle for Nazi art treasure heads to court
Seventy-nine years ago, a Jewish woman named Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Today, her great-grandson will walk into a U.S. courtroom for the latest round of what has been a nearly… Read More
Is this world leader actually a body double?
Nigeria’s president took the extraordinary step of denying rumors that he died and was replaced by a body double, telling the country that he is alive and well. “It is the real me I assure you,” President Muhammadu Buhari said Sunday to a group of Nigerians during a visit to… Read More
After beating Mexico, Trump targets…
After teaming up with the leaders of Canada and Mexico on Friday to sign a revised North American trade pact, President Donald Trump said on Friday that he hopes the U.S. and Japan can balance their trade deficit “very quickly.” The president acknowledged that the U.S. is doing a lot… Read More
145 whales wash ashore and die in mass beach stranding
All of the 145 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote New Zealand beach have died. However, conservation workers are hoping to save some of the eight pygmy killer whales that remained stranded Monday at the other end of the country in an unrelated event. A hiker discovered the… Read More
U.S. military kills 37 radical Islamic terrorists
The U.S. military says it killed a total of 37 Islamic extremists in two airstrikes in Somalia. U.S. Africa Command, which carries out counterterrorism missions in Somalia and elsewhere in Africa, said in a statement Tuesday that both airstrikes were conducted on Monday. It said 27 members of the al-Shabab… Read More
Trump drops sanction hammer on Russia, Iran
The U.S. says it has placed a network of Russian and Iranian companies on an international blacklist for shipping oil to Syria in violation of U.S. sanctions. Officials say the network helps fuel the Syrian war effort of President Bashar al-Assad while providing revenue for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps… Read More
Arrest of top financial CEO stuns investors
Japanese prosecutors were considering Tuesday whether to file formal charges against Nissan Motor Co.’s chairman Carlos Ghosn amid a probe into allegations he misused company assets and under-reported millions of dollars of income. The arrest of Ghosn after a whistleblower disclosed the alleged misconduct left many investors stunned by the… Read More
Get out! Hundreds of Mexican protesters demand caravan go home
Hundreds of Mexican citizens congregated around a monument in an affluent section of Tijuana, the city south of California, on Sunday to protest the illegal migrant caravan that has arrived with plans to storm into the United States. And the Mexican nationals had a clear message: President Donald Trump was… Read More
Brexit cancelled? UK Prime Minister confronts critics
British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to seal business support for her Brexit deal with the European Union on Monday, but remained on a collision course with a group of lawmakers seeking to unseat her. The draft agreement has triggered an avalanche of criticism in Britain and left May fighting… Read More
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