Mar 29 Russian journalist who covered Navalny's trials is jailed in Moscow on charges of extremism By Associated Press Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya, was arrested earlier in March as part of a crackdown on dissent in Russia. She is to remain in custody pending an investigation and trial on charges of extremism. Continue reading
Mar 29 Syria reports Israeli airstrikes near the city of Aleppo. A war monitor says 44 people are dead By Bassem Mroue, Albert Aji, Associated Press The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitor, said Israeli strikes hit missile depots for Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group in Aleppo's southern suburb of Jibreen and a nearby town that houses a military facility. Continue reading
Mar 29 France asks for foreign police and military help for Paris Olympics security By John Leicester, Associated Press Organizers are finalizing security planning for the Olympic Games in Paris, the French capital’s first in a century, while on heightened alert against potential attacks. The Interior Ministry is seeking over 2,100 foreign security reinforcements. Continue reading
Mar 29 South African investigators search for bodies of Easter pilgrims killed in bus crash By Gerald Imray, Nqobile Ntshangase, Associated Press Forensic investigators in South Africa are searching for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying people to a popular Easter pilgrimage in the town of Moria plunged off a bridge and caught fire. An 8-year old child is the… Continue reading
Mar 29 In Jerusalem, Palestinian Christians observe scaled-down Good Friday celebrations By Julia Frankel, Associated Press Hundreds of Christians have joined the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Continue reading
Mar 28 Bus plunges off a bridge in South Africa, killing 45 people. 8-year-old is only survivor By Gerald Imray, Associated Press Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch 9:31 Sister of Evan Gershkovich discusses fight to free him from Russian detention By Nick Schifrin, Dan Sagalyn Thursday marks one year since Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by Russian police. He has remained in detention ever since on espionage charges, an accusation both the U.S. and Journal strongly deny. Nick Schifrin speaks with Gershkovich's… Continue watching
Mar 28 Palestinian Authority announces a new Cabinet amid calls for reform By Associated Press The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform. President Mahmoud Abbas, who has led the PA for nearly two decades, announced the new government in a presidential decree on Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 28 UN top court orders Israel to open more land crossings for food and water into Gaza By Associated Press The International Court of Justice issued two new so-called provisional measures in a case brought by South Africa accusing Israel of acts of genocide in its military campaign launched after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas. Continue reading
Mar 28 What family and supporters have said about U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich's year in Russian prison By Emma Burrows, Associated Press When Gershkovich was arrested a year ago — the first U.S. journalist taken into custody on espionage charges since 1986 at the height of the Cold War — it came as a shock, even though Russia had enacted increasingly repressive… Continue reading