A French court on Thursday granted a request to delay the appeal of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, convicted of the 2016 murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki, after the defendant's lawyer was changed at the last moment.. On Thursday, Zepeda added that "I did not dismiss Mr (Antoine) Vey," as his previous lawyer had told the court, saying "I am not responsible for this situation".
The incoming Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday held his first meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar to try and break the ice on frozen reunification talks.. Christodoulides, the former foreign minister of Cyprus, told reporters the meeting was a courtesy call and that he would meet Tatar again soon, but that no date had been fixed.
Since war-torn Syria was hit by a deadly earthquake, volunteers have kicked into action, cooking food for the homeless, giving free haircuts and bringing cheer to traumatised children.. "So, I decided to volunteer doing what I love: singing and dancing for children."
Police in Northern Ireland said Thursday that they had arrested three men over the shooting of an off-duty officer, after declaring "violent dissident republicans" the "prime focus" of their investigation.. "The primary focus is on violent dissident republicans, and within that there is a primary focus as well on New IRA." The New IRA, a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army, has admitted responsibility for two attacks in recent years.
G7 ministers on Thursday discussed imposing fresh sanctions on Russia on the eve of the first anniversary of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, as the UN General Assembly prepared to vote on a motion calling for "lasting" peace.. In New York, the UN General Assembly was on Thursday to bring to a vote a motion backed by Kyiv and its allies calling for a "just and lasting peace".
At least 96 people have been killed in more than two weeks of clashes between security forces and clan members in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, a hospital director said Thursday.. "We have 96 dead and 560 wounded," Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, director of the main hospital in the contested town of Las Anod, told AFP by telephone.
In the quiet Belarusian town of Zaslavl, families carefully tread an icy path under the winter sun to an Orthodox church.. Outside the 16th century church in Zaslavl, two elderly women hold on to each other in order not to slip on the ice.
The US defense department has released a high-altitude cockpit selfie of a U-2 spy plane pilot soaring over an alleged Chinese surveillance balloon the day before it was shot down. . The photo released by the Pentagon on Wednesday shows the Chinese balloon floating over the central continental United States on February 3 as it is observed by the U-2 spy plane pilot.
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that sanctions were hurting Russia badly, as she and other G7 finance chiefs gathered to discuss further measures on the eve of the first anniversary of the Ukraine invasion.. The comments came before a meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers in Bengaluru on Thursday to discuss further sanctions and more financial help for Ukraine.
God moves in mysterious ways, the Bible says.. Bible passages are read and the priest prays for peace.
