Tuesday, the governments of Bulgaria and North Macedonia held a joint session to strengthen their tense relations, which have been strained by a long-running dispute and a Bulgarian blockade of its Balkan neighbor’s European Union application. Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital, is the location of the meeting between the two governments. A week ago, Bulgarian Prime Minister
The Robertson County Sheriff’s Department’s Deputy Savanna Puckett was found shot in a burning house on Sunday night. In a news release from the sheriff’s office, the agency confirmed that the 22-year-old was dead at the scene. Puckett’s home on Highway 41 in Springfield was engulfed in flames when another deputy went to check on
According to state prosecutors, the country’s top cartel boss, known as “El Marro,” was sentenced to 60 years in prison on Friday. In 2020, Jose Antonio Yepez was arrested back as one of Mexico’s most wanted criminals, Reuters reported. The leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel in Guanajuato, Reuters reported. Yapez and his
Havana Syndrome is still an unknown illness and the United States does not know where it came from, State Department spokesperson Antony Blinken said in an interview on Thursday after more American diplomats fell ill in Paris and Geneva. In addition to about 200 diplomats, officials and family members overseas suffering from the illness, Blinken
After revelers welcomed in the new year in downtown Sarasota, a man was shot and sustained life-threatening injuries. Nearly two hours before 2 a.m., police said, a shooting took place on Main Street in the 1400 block. As per a police statement, police believe there was no danger to the public because this was an
Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Thursday that a joint delegation of Qatari and Turkish companies has arrived in Afghanistan to discuss plans to run Kabul’s international airport jointly. According to Anadolu Agency, Turkish and Qatari representatives met at the Qatar International Convention Center this week to coordinate details and are scheduled to travel to Kabul
Majid Al Futtaim, the Emirati billionaire who rose from working as a bank clerk to creating an eponymous business empire with four major brands including Dubai Mall and indoor ski slope in just over two decades has died on Friday. He described him as the sheikhdom’s “most important merchant” in a tweet, which Al Futtaim’s
On Friday, German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle has suspended four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into allegations that they expressed anti-Israel, antisemitic views. DW’s Arabic service is alleged to have made online comments this week decrying the Holocaust or perpetuating anti-Jewish stereotypes in some instances, according to the Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The
Three men were gunned down and four others injured during a shooting at an apartment Friday night, police in Nashville said. The victims suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds; the Homicide Unit is investigating what led to this tragedy The twitter post from MPD reads: “Three male victims shot last night -all expected survive,” adding that
President Joe Biden called on FTC chair Lina Khan to investigate immediately if oil and gas companies are conducting any illegal conspiracies to keep high prices at the pumps to extract high profit amid wholesale oil prices dropped already. This is the latest action implemented by the white house to control inflation and price hike.
The California parent, Homayoun Zadeh, 60 was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for unlawful activities to admit his daughter into a university. He agreed to pay $100, 000 to help the admission process to the University of Southern California in a sweeping admission scheme. He was also observed pleading guilty in June for filing
A conjugated study conducted by university researchers showed the presence of harmful chemical phthalates, associated with many health problems in foods from high selling chains like McDonald’s, Chipotle, and many others. The study was conducted by researchers of George Washington University, the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas, Boston University, and Harvard University and
