Month: May 2023

The death toll of crisis in Sudan has surpassed 500, according to the World Health Organization, as a tense 72-hour ceasefire was extended for three more days on Friday. The fragile truce has calmed more than a week of intense fighting between two well-armed factions led by rival commanders. Here’s what’s happening in the East African nation and why: Who is fighting in Sudan? Clashes in Sudan are between the Sudanese Armed Forces, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. Until recently, the leaders of the two…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Singaporean man is scheduled to be hanged next week for trying to smuggle cannabis into the island state, in a resumption of executions after a half-year hiatus, activists said on Thursday. The family of Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, was notified in a letter that he would be executed next Wednesday, anti-death penalty activist Kokila Annamalai said. Tangaraju was arrested in 2014 for drug use and failure to submit to a drug test, according to another activist, Kirsten Han. He was later linked to two drug traffickers through a phone number used to coordinate the delivery of…

top line At least eight people were killed and 13 wounded in a shooting on Thursday afternoon in Serbia, an incident that comes just a day after another mass shooting at a school in the capital Belgrade claimed nine lives. Police officers block the street near the scene of Thursday night’s attack in the town of Dubona, … [+] about 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday. Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Key factors The incident took place near Mladenovac, a municipality on the outskirts of Belgrade, when a gunman opened fire on people…

The NFL said suspended five players Friday for violating the league’s gaming policy. Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus and safety CJ Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are now suspended indefinitely, while Lions wide receivers Stanley Berryhill and Jameson Williams have been suspended for six games. His suspension will begin in the fall when the 2023-24 season begins. Cephus, Moore and Toney are suspended indefinitely from betting on NFL games in the 2022 season. However, they can apply for reinstatement at the end of the 2023 season, league officials said. The NFL’s betting policy prohibits all team…

NEW YORK (AP) — The marketing executive who oversaw a partnership between Bud Light and a transgender influencer is taking a leave of absence after it snowballed into boycott calls from some angry customers, reports say of the media Alissa Heinerscheid, Bud Light’s vice president of marketing, will be replaced by Todd Allen, most recently Budweiser’s global vice president, according to reports from Beer Business Daily and Ad Age. A spokesman for Bud Light’s parent company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, on Saturday would not directly confirm the leave, but said Allen as vice president of Bud Light will report directly to Benoit…

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) — Police are searching for the person who stabbed a man in the back at a Manhattan subway station. The stabbing happened on the 42nd Street platform or the A train shortly before 4pm on Saturday. The victim was taken to the hospital and is expected to survive. Police say they are looking for a female suspect. MORE | Dash cam video offers first look at Lower Manhattan parking lot when it collapsed EMBED More videos ———- * Get news from eyewitnesses * More Manhattan news * Send us a news tip * Download the abc7NY app…

GRAVESEND, Brooklyn (WABC) — The NYPD now confirms that a woman caught on surveillance video being led into a car was not being kidnapped. Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman they say was abducted in the Gravesend section of Brooklyn early Friday morning. According to police, a man approached the woman at the intersection of Avenue W and Stillwell Avenue around 1:45 a.m. and then led her into a minivan before driving away. It turned out that the woman and the man in the video knew each other and both say no crime was committed….

For free real-time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox, sign up for our breaking news emails Sign up to our free emails for breaking news Massachusetts emergency responders have recovered the body of a person who died Thursday after a powerful explosion ripped through a pharmaceutical chemical plant. Acting Newburyport Fire Chief Stephen Bradbury III described the explosion as a seven-alarm hazardous materials event and said crews were expected to resume cleanup Friday morning, including removing chemicals of the building Authorities said there was no threat to the nearby population. The explosion occurred around 1 a.m. Thursday at…