TORKHAM, Afghanistan — The order was clear and indisputable, the timeline startling. You have 45 minutes to pack up and leave Pakistan forever. Sher Khan, a 42-year-old Afghan, had returned home from his job in a brick factory. He stared at the plainclothes policeman on the doorstep, his mind reeling. How could he pack up…
The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a draft resolution that demands an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the war in Gaza after the United States vetoed a similar effort in the Security Council last week. The 193-member General Assembly is likely to adopt the text with overwhelming support, diplomats say,…
AHMEDABAD, India (AP) – An Air India passenger plane bound for London with more than 240 people on board crashed Thursday in India’s northwestern city of Ahmedabad, and there were no known survivors, officials said. Black smoke billowed from the site where the plane went down in a populated area near the airport in Ahmedabad,…
An Air India plane crashed on its way to Gatwick. (Image: AP) A flight from India to London crashed moments after taking off with over 200 passengers onboard, all of whom were killed. The Air India plane erupted into a dark grey cloud of smoke after leaving Sadar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport in Ahmedabad, Gujarat….
OXNARD, Calif. — At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for signs of trouble. An eerie silence hung over the morning. The workers who would typically be shuffling up and down the strawberry…
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Days before his arrest outside his daughter’s house in the outskirts of San Salvador, constitutional lawyer Enrique Anaya called Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele a “dictator” and a “despot” on live TV. This week, lawyer Jaime Quintanilla stood outside a detention facility in El Salvador’s capital with a box of food…