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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh’s capital on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop sexual harassment charges against her Islamic school’s principal. Nusrat Jahan Rafi told her family she was lured to the roof of her rural school […]

The tens of thousands of bees living on Notre Dame’s roof survived the horrific fire that overtook the famed cathedral earlier this week. Bees have been buzzing atop Notre Dame since 2013, when three beehives with about 60,000 bees each were put on a roof over the sacristy. The flames that engulfed the cathedral miraculously […]

By Maile Hutterer The Notre-Dame de Paris had been damaged and changed many times since it was begun in the mid-12th century. But the fire on April 15 might have been its most catastrophic event. Located on the eastern end of the Ile-de-la-Cité, an island on the Seine River, the site was a Christian church […]

UPDATE (1 a.m. EDT April 23): The New IRA, an Irish republican paramilitary group, has accepted responsibility for the killing of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee. In a statement to The Irish News, the group apologized for McKee’s death, which it characterized as collateral damage. “In the course of attacking the enemy, Lyra McKee was tragically […]

A 29-year-old journalist was shot dead in Northern Ireland on Thursday night in what police called “a terrorist incident.” Lyra McKee was fatally struck by gunfire at around 11 p.m. during a riot in Derry/Londonderry. She was hit by shots that an unidentified gunman fired at police during the “orchestrated violence,” according to Assistant Chief […]

French officials are planning to construct a temporary wooden cathedral on the esplanade in front of the Notre Dame while the fire-ravaged landmark is being rebuilt.  Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, Notre Dame’s chief priest, has suggested building an “ephemeral cathedral” to give faithful Catholics a place to congregate until the 850-year-old architectural treasure reopens. “We mustn’t say […]

A massive fire at Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral on Monday was likely caused by an electrical short-circuit, according to multiple reports on Thursday. A French judicial police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press the investigation was still ongoing. Investigators still have not been able to go inside the cathedral to search for […]

SEOUL: North Korea said Thursday that it had test-fired a new type of “tactical guided weapon,” its first such test in nearly half a year, and demanded that Washington remove Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from nuclear negotiations.The test, which didn’t appear to be of a banned mid- or long-range ballistic missile that could scuttle […]

SEOUL, April 18 (Reuters) – North Korea said on Thursday it no longer wanted to deal with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and said he should be replaced in talks by someone more mature, hours after it announced its first weapons test since nuclear talks broke down. The North’s official KCNA news agency quoted […]

PARIS: Fueled by a lattice of centuries-old timbers, the fire moved hungrily across Notre Dame’s rooftop toward the cathedral’s iconic spire. It belched yellow smoke, spitting out gritty particles of wood, stone, lead and iron and wanted more. Far below, their vision obscured by fumes and tears, firefighters, priests and municipal workers passed treasures hand-to-hand, […]

North Korea tested a new type of tactical guided weapon on Wednesday, the regime’s state-run news agency said. Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency said the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, oversaw the testing of the weapon this week. It’s unclear what type of weapon it is, but KCNA said it had a “powerful warhead” and […]

The search for a man and a little girl featured in a viral photo taken in front of Notre Dame Cathedral is over. Brooke Windsor of Michigan announced on Twitter Thursday that the father and child she captured having a sweet moment in front of the historical monument just an hour before it caught fire Monday […]

A flight attendant in Israel has been in a coma for 10 days after contracting measles following a flight from New York, CNN reported Wednesday, as measles outbreaks in both countries raise public health concerns. “She’s been in a deep coma for 10 days, and we’re now just hoping for the best,” Itamar Grotto, associate […]

PARIS: France on Wednesday announced it would invite architects from around the world to submit designs for replacing the spire of Notre-Dame cathedral after a devastating blaze, as the government braced for a mammoth restoration challenge.Prime Minister Edouard Philippe said the contest would decide whether the monument should have a new spire at all and […]

UPDATE: 5:24 p.m. ― While it appeared that a miniature horse with a pink mane was roaming around Saint Helen’s Island in Montreal, it turns out looks were deceiving. A popular TV show in Quebec called “Vlog” owned up to the stunt, pulling what it’s calling a “test on the impact of unusual news on digital platforms in […]

LIMA, April 17 (Reuters) ― Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima on Wednesday, hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday. Garcia was 69. A skilled orator elected president twice, first as a firebrand leftist and then as […]

PARIS (AP) — Nearly $1 billion in donations have poured in for the vast restoration of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral — but a pledge by French President Emmanuel Macron that it will be completed within five years was facing accusations of being wildly off track. Macron said the renovations to restore iconic 19th century […]

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Tuesday vetoed a resolution from Congress directing him to end US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the second such move of his presidency.The resolution was a harsh bipartisan rebuke to Trump that took the historic step of curtailing a president’s war-making powers – a step he condemned in […]

Some of the wealthiest families in France have pledged to donate more than half a billion dollars to rebuild Notre Dame de Paris after a fire caused devastating damage to the iconic cathedral. So far, the moguls behind L’Oreal, Louis Vuitton, Gucci and other luxury brands, as well as some of France’s biggest companies, have promised […]

A Parisian chaplain who aided survivors during a 2015 terrorist attack in his city is being credited with running into the burning Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday to help rescue its priceless relics. Rev. Jean-Marc Fournier, the chaplain to the Paris Fire Brigade who previously served as a military chaplain in Afghanistan, entered the cathedral with firefighters […]

Shortly after the fire was extinguished, people all over the world got a glimpse inside the cathedral via images that revealed the roof had been burned away and the inside of the iconic church had been charred. Check out the before-and-after sliding images below, which highlight the damage from the fire. 

French President Emmanuel Macron told a grieving nation that he aims to restore the Notre Dame cathedral within five years after a monstrous fire tore through the historic monument on Monday.  “We will rebuild Notre-Dame because that is what the French expect,” Macron said of the more than 850-year-old Gothic icon in his Tuesday afternoon […]

DUBAI: The Gulf state of Bahrain on Tuesday jailed 138 people and revoked their citizenship for plotting to form a “terror” group with links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the public prosecutor said.The verdict was swiftly condemned by the Bahraini opposition, while human rights group Amnesty International decried the “mockery of justice” and “mass arbitrary denaturalisation”.The […]

Victor Hugo’s classic novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” skyrocketed to the top of Amazon France’s bestseller list on Tuesday after the iconic cathedral was engulfed in fire the day before. The French landmark lost its spire to the flames, but city officials confirmed on Monday night that the main structure was “saved and preserved.” Hugo’s […]

ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party has submitted its appeal for the annulment and rerun of Istanbul‘s municipal elections, broadcaster CNN Turk said on Tuesday, more than two weeks after the vote.Initial results showed the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) narrowly won control of Turkey‘s biggest city in the elections, seemingly ending 25 […]

As hundreds of firefighters battled the inferno that tore through Paris’ famed Notre Dame Cathedral on Monday, French officials worried aloud whether the Roman Catholic icon and the priceless artifacts stored within could survive the blaze. Parisians — and people the world over — breathed a sigh of relief when French President Emmanuel Macron later […]

Pope Francis offered prayers as Paris’ iconic Notre Dame cathedral was engulfed in flames on Monday. “Today we unite in prayer with the people of France, as we wait for the sorrow inflicted by the serious damage to be transformed into hope with reconstruction,” stated a tweet from the pontiff’s account on Tuesday. Today we […]

Just hours after Notre Dame was devastated by a fire, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault pledged that he and his family would donate 100 million euros ($113 million) to help reconstruct the cathedral, Agence France Presse reported. Pinault, who is married to actress Salma Hayek, is the CEO of the international luxury group Kering, the parent […]

LAHORE: Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif may undergo a heart surgery if his angioplasty is not possible, said his personal physician.Sharif, 69, who has been serving a seven-year imprisonment in the Al-Azizia Steel Mills graft case, was examined on Monday by the doctors of Aga Khan University at the Sharif Medical City in Lahore, […]