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Three Uzbek nationals have been taken into custody by UAE authorities in relation to the death of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi who was discovered dead in the Gulf state. Israeli officials expressed indignation over the murder, which also brought attention to the small but expanding Jewish community in the Emirate, which established diplomatic relations with the Jewish state in the 2020 Abraham Accords. Israel's attack on the Gaza Strip and the subsequent Arab outcry have put pressure on that opening. On Monday, the Ministry of Interior in the United Arab Emirates revealed the identity of "the three perpetrators arrested for committing the murder of the Moldovan resident, Zvi Kogan." It stated that it was "conducting initial investigations" with Azizi Kamilovich, 33, Makhmudjon Abdurrahim, 28,...

Authorities in Lithuania confirmed Monday that an ADHL freight jet killed one person on board and injured three others when it crashed into a house in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Less than a mile from the airport where it was headed, the plane crashed on Pea Street, a major thoroughfare that runs through Leipzig, Germany, around 5:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday). "A cargo plane carrying four people crashed close to Vilnius International Airport at 5:30 AM local time, according to early statistics. In an emailed statement to NBC News, Lithuania's national police agency said, "One person was declared dead, three injured." "It turned out that a cargo plane had crashed and a residential house caught fire," the Department of Fire Protection and Rescue stated in a statement. ...

Authorities in the Baltic republic of Lithuania said Monday that a DHL freight jet killed one person on board and injured three others when it crashed into a house in Vilnius, the capital. Less than a mile from the airport where it was headed, the plane crashed on Pea Street, a major thoroughfare that runs through Leipzig, Germany, around 5:30 a.m. local time (10:30 p.m. ET on Sunday). "A cargo plane carrying four people crashed close to Vilnius International Airport at 5:30 AM local time, according to early statistics. In an emailed statement to NBC News, Lithuania's national police agency said, "One person was declared dead, three injured." "It turned out that a cargo plane had crashed and a residential house caught fire," the Department of Fire Protection and Rescue stated in a statemen...

According to a UNICEF report issued Monday, gangs in Haiti are recruiting youngsters at previously unheard-of levels, with the number of minors targeted increasing by 70% over the previous 12 months. According to the U.N., children currently make up between 30% and 50% of all gang members in the violent nation. UNICEF's representative in Haiti, Geeta Narayan, called this trend extremely alarming. The rise coincides with growing poverty and political unrest, as gangs that control 85% of Port-au-Prince attack once-calm neighborhoods in an attempt to seize complete control of the capital. In a phone conversation from Haiti, Narayan stated that young boys are frequently utilized as informers since they are invisible and not perceived as a threat. Some are armed and coerced into taking part in ...

Conservation workers and locals assisted in refloating around 30 pilot whales that became stranded on a New Zealand beach by raising them on sheets, allowing them to be safely returned to the water. According to New Zealand's conservation agency, four of the pilot whales perished. Pilot whales are very common stranders in New Zealand, which is a hotspot for whale strandings. The Department of Conservation informed The Associated Press that a team was keeping an eye on Ruak K Beach, which is close to the city of Whang Rei in the north of New Zealand, on Monday to make sure there were no indications that the whales that were salvaged on Sunday were stranded once more. The efforts of hundreds of volunteers to save the foundering pod were hailed by the agency as amazing. Joel Lauterbach, a spo...

Remaining differences raise questions about whether a final deal is imminent as representatives from 175 nations convened in Busan, South Korea, on Monday for the fifth round of negotiations aimed at establishing an international convention to reduce plastic pollution. After the previous round of negotiations in Ottawa in April concluded without a resolution on limiting plastic output, South Korea is holding the fifth and supposedly final meeting of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5). After petrochemical-producing countries like Saudi Arabia and China fiercely rejected efforts to target plastic manufacturing despite the concerns of countries that bore the brunt of plastic pollution, discussions will now be centered on chemicals of concern and other measures. Talks ove...

Australia's SydneyThe government of Australia announced on Sunday that it has abandoned plans to punish internet companies up to 5% of their worldwide turnover for their inability to stop the spread of false material online. Ahead of a federal election that is scheduled for within a year, the law was part of Australia's extensive regulatory crackdown, in which politicians have expressed dissatisfaction about foreign-domiciled internet platforms displacing the nation's sovereignty. There is no way to pass this idea through the Senate, according to public remarks and interactions with senators, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said in a statement. According to Rowland, the law would have brought about a previously unheard-of degree of openness by making large corporations answerable ...

Pakistan's Peshawar A seven-day ceasefire agreement between competing sectarian groups was brokered by a Pakistani government team on Sunday, ending days of fighting in the country's northwest that has left at least 68 people dead and several others injured, according to one of the mediators. At least 40 people, primarily Shiite Muslims, were killed when gunmen assaulted convoys of civilian vehicles on Thursday, sparking the bloodshed. Sunni Muslim citizens became the target of reprisal attacks as a result, and armed organizations from both sides have engaged in fierce combat. A land dispute in Kurram district, close to the Afghan border, has led to decades of tribal and sectarian conflict between armed Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Muhammad Ali Saif, a member of the mediation team, told Reu...

Romania's political scene is in shock after a little-known far-right populist defeated the incumbent prime minister in the first round of the presidential election, according to electoral results released Monday. In two weeks, reformist Elena Lasconi will compete in a runoff against independent Calin Georgescu. After almost every ballot was counted, Georgescu, 62, had about 22.95% of the vote and was in the lead. With 19.17%, Lasconi of the progressive Save Romania Union party, or USR, came next. She narrowly defeated Social Democratic Party, or PSD, incumbent Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, who had 19.15% of the vote. The far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, or AUR, was led by George Simion, who received 13.87% of the vote. The PSD has never had a candidate in the second round of...

Rico Carty, who hit a major league-best.366 with the Atlanta Braves and won the 1970 NL hitting title, has away. He was eighty-five. On Sunday, the Braves, Major League Baseball, and the Players Association honored Carty on social media. Carty passed away in a hospital in Atlanta on Saturday night, according to a family acquaintance who spoke to List n Diario, a daily in his home Dominican Republic. According to the players association's statement, Carty was one of the first innovative Latino stars in the major leagues and became a hero to millions of people in his hometown of San Pedro de Macoris, his native Dominican Republic, and Atlanta, where he was a cherished fan favorite. According to the Braves, Carty had a lasting impression on the team. The squad added in its statement that alth...