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'Unfit to hold office': Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to censure Dem for 'insurrection'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered a resolution on Thursday to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (R-MI) for what she said was an "insurrection."

Greene brought the resolution to the House floor after Tlaib participated in a peaceful protest at the Capitol to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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Hungary's Orban says is "proud" of Putin meeting

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday that he was "proud" of his contacts with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he met in China this month despite European Union efforts to isolate Moscow for waging a war against Ukraine. Orban spoke on arriving to a summit of the EU's 27 national leaders in Brussels. He drew criticism for his talks with Putin, which had been organised with great pomp. "We would like to do everything to have peace. Therefore we keep open all the communication lines to the Russians, otherwise there will be no chance for peace. This is...

‘The man was circulating among us every day’: How cops nabbed Haiti assassination suspect

Ernst Dorfeuille, a Haitian police officer dressed in plain clothes, was walking out of Big Star Market in the hills of Port-au-Prince on Oct. 19 when he took a quick glance at the man walking in and realized who he was: Joseph Félix Badio, the former government functionary and a key suspect wanted in the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. It was the second time that Dorfeuille had run into the fugitive, by this time sporting a gray beard and salt and pepper hair, inside a Pétionville market. But unlike their previous run-in at the now-closed Giant Supermarket further down the road, thi...

Hurricane Otis pummels Mexico's Acapulco, cutting off famous beach resort

By Javier Verdin ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) -Hurricane Otis, one of the strongest storms ever to hit Mexico's Pacific Coast, roared into the beach resort of Acapulco early on Wednesday, smashing buildings and vital infrastructure and leaving the city incommunicado and without power. Footage on social media showed hotels wrecked by Otis, ceilings and walls ripped open, windows shattered and cars partly submerged in floodwaters as the rare Category 5 storm barreled ashore in the southern state of Guerrero. Debris was strewn around lobbies, patios, streets and hotel balconies, and remnants of man...

Israel bombards Gaza, prepares invasion as Biden urges path to two states

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Henriette Chacar GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel kept up its strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza as it prepared for a ground invasion while more Palestinian civilians were killed and world powers at the United Nations failed to secure plans to deliver critical humanitarian aid. U.S. President Joe Biden, in remarks looking beyond the war that began with an Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants, said on Wednesday that the future should include Israeli and Palestinian states side by side. "Israelis and Palestinians equally deserve to live side by side in s...

New Zealand city’s sleep-deprived residents beg for end to overnight blasting of Celine Dion hits

Residents of the small coastal city of Porirua, New Zealand, are asking local music geeks to think twice about blasting Celine Dion hits from bullhorns at earsplitting levels in the middle of the night, according to reports. Dubbing themselves the Siren Kings, groups of people strap multiple massive speakers to their cars and blare music ranging from reggae to Dion classics including “My Heart Will Go On,” robbing residents of sleep. The goal is reportedly to see whose music broadcasts the loudest and clearest. While some people in the 62,000-population city outside of Wellington are fine with...

'The Hunger Games' to be turned into London stage play

LONDON (Reuters) - "The Hunger Games" is set to open at a London theatre next year in the first live stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novels and the hugely successful film franchise. Irish playwright, screenwriter and director Conor McPherson has adapted for theatre the first book in Collins's young adult dystopian trilogy and the first film from "The Hunger Games" Lionsgate movie franchise, which starred Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen. Matthew Dunster, playwright, director and former associate director at Shakespeare's Globe theatre, will direct. "To receive Su...

Israel to ban UN officials after sec-general says Hamas attack didn’t happen ‘in a vacuum’

Israel on Wednesday said it will deny visas to United Nations officials “to teach them a lesson,” following recent comments by the U.N. chief about the Israel-Hamas war. On Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres angered Israeli officials over his remarks about the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip following the deadly attack on Israel earlier this month. Addressing the U.N. Security Council in New York, Guterres said that while he “unequivocally” condemned “the horrifying and unprecedented … acts of terror by Hamas in Israel,” it was also important to recognize those at...

Global number of refugees has reached a record high, says UN agency

Conflicts raging on three continents have driven the global number of refugees to a new record of more than 114 million, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. This number does not include people displaced by the current war between Israel and Hamas. Between January and June, 1.6 million people around the world applied for asylum, the highest in a half year to date, according to the UNHCR. Conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and the Russian war on Ukraine drove the most people from their homes this year. Droughts, floods and the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan...

Confrontations between Israel and Hezbollah militants continue

Confrontations between Israel and militants in Lebanon continued on Wednesday, with Israel striking areas in the south of the country. The Lebanese state-run National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli plane fired two rockets into areas near Kfar Chouba. A Lebanese security source said Israeli artillery shelled from its posts in the Jal al-Alam area at the outskirts of Ramia and Aita al-Shaab, in southern Lebanon. The source added that there is heavy Israeli aerial activity over the southern Lebanese border area. The pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement said an Israeli drone fired three missiles. One...

Ghana send its vital plant seeds to the Arctic Circle 'doomsday vault'

Ghana deposits essential crops in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault for long-term security.Svalbard now safeguards over 1.2 million seed samples from 74 countries.Arctic 'Doomsday Vault' plays a crucial role in ensuring agricultural diversity amid climate change concerns.Ghana has placed seeds in the Arctic Circle's "doomsday vault" to safeguard the long-term survival of the country's primary food crops. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, located in an arctic mountain on the isolated Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, protects approximately 1.2 million seed samples, making it the world's biggest colle...

Feds levy more charges against Haitian gang leader accused of kidnappings and murder

U.S. authorities upped the ante Tuesday against a powerful gang leader who is considered one of the most dangerous criminals in Haiti, charging him anew with the kidnapping of a Haitian American couple and murder. Vitel’homme Innocent, who heads the Kraze Barye (Destroy the Barrier) gang and was indicted on similar federal charges last year, is accused of ordering the kidnapping of Haitian Americans Jean Franklin and Marie Odette Franklin from their home in Haiti on Oct. 7, 2022. The wife was shot and killed and the husband held in captivity until his family paid a ransom for his release 21 da...

‘Mummified’ mice found at volcano summits in Peru, researchers say. ‘Boggles the mind’

“Mummified” mice were recently discovered atop towering volcanoes in Peru where the Incas once performed ritual sacrifices. Thirteen of the whiskered rodents were found across three peaks in the Andes, where archaeologists first began encountering mysterious rodent remains in the 1970s and 1980s. At the time, it was presumed that the animals — known as leaf-eared mice — had traveled with the Incas, and had perhaps fallen victim to their sacrifices (The Incan Empire lasted from 1400 to 1532, and it covered a large swath of South America, according to the British Museum). But new research indica...