At least one person is dead and 38 remain missing as rescue crews continue to search the waters off Florida coast after a boat capsized over the weekend, the United States Coast Guard said. Captain Jo-Ann Burdian, the commander of …
The advocacy groups Human Rights Watch and OutRight Action International on Wednesday in its report said that (LGBT) Afghans and people who do not conform to rigid gender norms in Afghanistan have faced an increasingly desperate situation and grave threats …
Rescue crews are currently searching for 39 people believed to be missing after their boat reportedly capsized off eastern Florida, the United States Coast Guard announced on Jan. 25. The U.S. Coast Guard said they received a report at about …
Shane Lee Brown, a 25-year-old Black man, is suing two Nevada police departments for wrongfully detaining him in jail after mistaking him for an older white suspect with a similar name. Shane Lee Brown alleges in the federal civil lawsuit …
Authorities in Wisconsin found six people dead with gunshots wounds in a house in Milwaukee, launching a homicide investigation. Milwaukee police were responding to a welfare check at a residence at about 3:45 p.m. local time on Jan. 23 when …
An 18-year-old man killed one woman and injured three others when he opened fire in a packed lecture hall at Heidelberg University in southwestern Germany on Jan. 24, police said. The attacker, who was a student at the university, entered …
The Civil Society Coalition against Torture and Impunity on Monday said two Tajik police officers were fired after being found guilty of extortion and blackmailing a Finland citizen in Dushanbe, Tajikistan’s capital city. The two officers – the head of …
An eight-year-old girl died from a stray bullet following a shooting in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood over the weekend. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the girl as Melissa Ortega. Ortega was walking northbound with her mother on Jan. …
Four people were killed and another was injured at a “targeted ambush” shooting during a house party in Inglewood on Jan. 23. Authorities responded to a report of “shots being fired” at around 1:30 a.m. local time at a rental …
Iran, Russia, and China will hold joint naval exercises in the north of the Indian Ocean on Friday, involving forces from the marine and airborne units of the Iranian Navy, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy, and flotillas from …