An Italian journalist has been under arrest in Iran for more than a week, Italy’s foreign ministry has said. Cecilia Sala works for Il Foglio newspaper and for podcast company Chora Media. The foreign ministry said it was following Ms Sala’s case with “utmost attention” since she was detained by Tehran police on 19 December. There was no immediate confirmation of the arrest by Iranian officials. Chora Media said in…

World Health Organization (WHO), Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has revealed he was inside an airport in the capital of Yemen when Israeli forces launched a deadly strike on the facility. On Friday, the Houthi-controlled Saba news agency reported that the rebels’ forces had targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. The Israel Defense Forces and a spokesperson for the airport said they were not aware of the incident. Israel…

Osamu Suzuki, who grew small-car specialist Suzuki Motor into an international brand with huge successes in India, died Wednesday at age 94 after bouts with cancer, the company said Friday. Under the charismatic businessman’s four-decade leadership through 2021, the firm’s sales grew more than 10-fold. Born on January 30, 1930, in the central Japanese region of Gifu, he married into the firm’s founding family and later became its president in…

For decades, South Korea was an example of a vibrant democracy and economy. On Friday, the key United States ally was in uncharted territory when legislators voted to impeach an acting president less than two weeks after ousting the country’s previous leader. The ruling People’s Power Party surrounded the speaker’s podium following the vote to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, chanting that the vote was invalid and accusing parliament of…

A gay couple resident in Georgia, the United States, William and Zachary Zulock, aged 34 and 36, have been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing their adopted sons. A Walton County court, last week, imposed 100-year sentences on each, without the possibility of parole. The victims, two brothers, are now 12 and 10 years old, The Economic Times reports. The Zulocks reportedly adopted the boys from a Christian…

A former prime minister of India, Manmohan Singh, whose economic reforms made his country a global powerhouse, has died at the age of 92. Singh, who held office from 2004 to 2014, was credited with having overseen an economic boom in Asia’s fourth-largest economy in his first term, although slowing growth in later years marred his second stint. India “mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished leaders”, current…

US President-elect, Donald Trump has come out to dismiss speculation that Elon Musk would take over the presidency. He recently had his say while speaking to a crowd of supporters, at an engagement at his Mar-A-Lago Estate, amid wide speculation that the world’s richest man would be the real force running the show behind the scene when Trump ascends the presidency again on January 20. According to him, reports saying…

Three people were shot and another stabbed in a wild family fight at an Arizona airport on Christmas Day — with another man later busted for turning up with guns thinking there was an active shooting, according to cops. The violence erupted at a pre-security restaurant in Terminal Four of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport around 9:45 p.m. when someone pulled out a gun during a fight and opened fire,…

Hundreds of skiers had to be rescued by helicopter on Christmas day after chairlifts at two different resorts in the French Alps broke down. Dramatic video shows skiers at SuperDevoluy resort in Dévoluy hanging below a helicopter near a motionless chairlift. One of the resort’s chairlifts broke down around 1 p.m. local time Wednesday due to an electrical problem with one of its motors, reported Nouvelle Republique. About 240 skiers…

The passenger plane of Azerbaijan Airlines which crashed near the Kazakh city of Aktau on Wednesday, was attacked by Russian air defence, Euronews reports. According to Azerbaijani government sources, the Russians hit the plane with a surface-to-air missile. Euronews’ interlocutors clarify that the missile was fired at the plane while it was flying over Grozny, where drone activity was recorded. It exploded near the plane, and its fragments hit passengers…

…In scathing Christmas Day message Incoming US President, Donald Trump had no Christmas wishes for death row inmates whose sentences were commuted by Joe Biden. The president-elect told the prisoners to “go to hell” in a scathing Truth Social rant on Wednesday. In the lengthy two-post statement shared on his social media platform, he also aimed at the president, calling him “sleepy Joe” and the Democrats, dubbing them “radical left…

*Biden urges unity, reflection in Christmas message*Trump shares politically focused posts on Truth Social*Polarization persists despite Biden’s call for unity The outgoing and incoming U.S. presidents had different messages for the Christmas holiday, with Democrat Joe Biden urging Americans to reflect and unite and Republican Donald Trump offering a holiday greeting and a flurry of politically focused social media posts. Biden narrated a video tour of the White House Christmas…