Day: June 16, 2023

Swiss cyclist, 26, dies after crashing, falling into ravine during race: ‘We are devastated’

8:08 pm June 16, 2023

Swiss cyclist Gino Mäder died Friday after succumbing to injuries he sustained during the Tour de Suisse Thursday when he crashed on a steep downhill turn, causing him to fall down a ravine, his racing team confirmed. He was 26. Bahrain Victorious issued a statement announcing Mäder’s death. “It is with deep sadness and heavy […]

Mali’s top diplomat demands UN peacekeepers leave the country after more than 10 years

8:04 pm June 16, 2023

Mali’s top diplomat demanded Friday that U.N. peacekeepers who have been in this West African country grappling with an Islamic insurgency for more than a decade leave immediately, claiming they had failed in their mission. Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop made the request in a speech to the United Nations Security Council. He said the U.N. […]

Environmental activist shot to death in Honduras 6 months after activist brother slain

8:02 pm June 16, 2023

An environmental activist was killed by unidentified gunmen Thursday in northern Honduras, six months after his younger brother and another activist were killed in a similar attack, a relative and an environmental group said. Oquelí Domínguez was shot by two men on a motorcycle at his family’s home in Tocoa, his eldest brother, Reynaldo Domínguez, […]

German police appeal for images taken of attack in which Americans were pushed down steep slope

8:00 pm June 16, 2023

Police in southern Germany are appealing for photos and videos taken by witnesses of an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which an American man allegedly pushed two women down a steep slope, killing one of them. A suspect was arrested following the attack. German news agency dpa quoted police as saying Friday that they have […]

Vietnam War activist Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, dies at 92

7:07 pm June 16, 2023

Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who made history by leaking the damning Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam War, died at the age of 92 on Friday. Ellsberg had announced he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February. In a family statement obtained by Fox News, Ellsberg’s family said that the nonagenarian died peacefully and […]