Children once held hostage still working through trauma: 'Are they coming for us again?' Young hostages who were once held captive by Hamas after the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks face unique mental health and psychological challenges, say experts who have treated them. 09/20/2024 - 9:30 pm | View Link
US soldier who fled to North Korea is free after sentencing U.S. Army Private Travis King, who last year ran into North Korea and was taken into custody there, was sentenced on Friday to one year of confinement then freed based on time already served, his ... 09/20/2024 - 12:51 pm | View Link
Honduran men kidnapped migrants and held them for ransom, Justice Department says "We will use our powerful tools to hold accountable those who use violence to profit off of vulnerable victims," said U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada. 09/16/2024 - 6:36 pm | View Link
DOJ: Illegal immigrants kidnapped other migrants, held them for ransom in L.A., across southwest U.S. A Honduran man living illegally in New Mexico has been federally indicted for allegedly conspiring to kidnap an illegal Guatemalan immigrant and demanding a ransom payment from the man’s SoCal family ... 09/16/2024 - 10:27 am | View Link
Kidnap suspects arrested after migrant held for ransom escaped into L.A. boba shop, feds say Captors allegedly threatened to harm the migrants unless family members paid a ransom, which in one case totaled $11,000. 09/9/2024 - 12:40 am | View Link
Kamala Harris still has time to change direction on U. S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that could secure her the presidency, reduce further damage to Washington’s standing internationally, stop what many—including many Jews, Israelis, and Holocaust scholars—have called a genocide in Gaza, and prevent a regional war.
U. S., U. K. and United Nations officials urged restraint as tensions ramped up between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. After days of escalating conflict, Israel carried out extensive airstrikes targeting Southern Lebanon on Sept. 19 and Hezbollah retaliated on Sept. 20, prompting fears of further conflict and a wider Middle East war.
TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani’s feat of becoming the first major leaguer with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season was met with extra editions of newspapers for fans to read on their way to work on Friday morning in Japan.
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Ohtani raced past the 50-50 milestone as he hit three home runs and stole two bases in a game during the 20-4 rout of the Miami Marlins on Thursday, securing a playoff berth for the Dodgers.
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The news topped morning headlines, and “Ohtani-san” was the No.
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court upheld the legality of the death penalty but moved to limit its use, in a decision that strikes a balance between keeping the punishment’s deterrent effect and preventing its abuse.
The court on Friday affirmed the constitutionality of capital punishment but restricted its use to only the most serious crimes, while emphasizing the need for better safeguards.
First, on Tuesday, there were exploding pagers. On Wednesday, walkie-talkies began detonating, along with other electronic devices. Panic took hold of whole areas across Lebanon—particularly in Shia communities where Hezbollah are present—as devices designed to be held in the hand and close to the face blew fingers off hands and took out eyes.
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“We were confused at first,” Joumana, who was visiting loved ones at a hospital in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Wednesday, tells TIME.
A lot has changed since my last conversation with Anwar Ibrahim 10 years ago, when he jumped on a crackly phone call between court hearings to reveal his chances of beating a trumped-up sodomy charge “didn’t look good.”
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Things looked considerably brighter for Malaysia’s Prime Minister when we caught up last month at the opening of German semiconductor giant Infineon’s new Malaysia plant.