Fleeing

Dozens of arrests have already been made in connection with the violent pro-Trump mob attack. Five people died amid the chaos, including a Capitol Police officer who was injured while responding to the rioting and a woman shot by a plainclothes officer. … [Read more...] about Prosecutor says man charged over actions in Capitol riot tried to flee to Switzerland

Any fears instantly appeared to vanish as the reptile attempts to flee from the area and is instantly identified. "It's a huge tree snake! That is one of the biggest tree snakes I've ever seen. That is incredible," McKenzie was heard saying in the cell phone video. … [Read more...] about Snake Catcher Captures ‘One of the Biggest’ Tree Snakes He Has Ever Seen

The rush of incoming aircraft roused Waheeda and her sleeping family. It was long after dark on a cool spring night in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, a Taliban stronghold of fertile valleys and stark mountains that borders Pakistan. The sound of warplanes is a familiar echo across the skies here, but it had never come so close to Waheeda’s mud-brick home. Her father, a village doctor named Nazar Gul, got up to see what was going on when the first bomb struck the family compound, killing five of her cousins. Her father was moving toward the blast site when a second bomb exploded, she says. In an instant, both of her parents and five of her sisters vanished. “It was dark and dusty, and nothing was visible,” the 14-year-old remembers. “I just knew they were all martyred.” … [Read more...] about America’s Longest War Takes a Deadly New Turn

Abandoned refugees in Belgrade 'Problems make a man old' Rehan, 28, a marketing manager from Kabul, holds a photo taken on his last day in Afghanistan. "I want to register for asylum, but they only take families," he told DW. "They think refugees are Daesh [Arabic term for "Islamic State" - the ed.], but why would Daesh come to live like this? Daesh has enough money to go to Europe by plane … these problems make a man old." … [Read more...] about Serbia: Court confirms illegal pushbacks into the EU

The timing will be set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who can trigger the start of the trial when she sends the House charges for “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate, and also by McConnell and new Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who are in negotiations over how to set up a 50-50 partisan divide in the Senate and the short-term agenda. … [Read more...] about Top Senate Republican seeks to push back former US President Donald Trump’s trial