Brazilian Police Probe Illegal Fishermen Over Amazon Double Homicide
ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil—As British journalist Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira, an indigenous expert, sped up the Itaquaí River in the Amazon early on June 5, the chug of their…
French Prosecutors Seek Life in Prison for Key Participant in 2015 Paris Terrorist Attack
PARIS—French prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for the highest-profile surviving participant in a November 2015 terrorist attack that killed 130 people across the nation’s capital in a single night,…
Car Plows Into Crowd in Berlin, Killing at Least One
BERLIN—A man who plowed a car into a crowd in downtown Berlin on Wednesday, killing at least one person, wasn’t politically motivated but suffered from mental problems, city officials said.…
Gunmen in Southwestern Nigeria Kill Dozens at Church Service
Gunmen killed dozens of worshipers including children in a shooting at a Sunday church service in southwestern Nigeria, in the latest example of spiraling religious violence in Africa’s most populous…
Chinese Influencer’s Ice-Cream Pitch Inadvertently Introduces Fans to Tiananmen Square Massacre
HONG KONG—One of China’s biggest online influencers stepped on a political land mine while promoting an ice-cream product on Friday. In the process, he set off a wave of curiosity…
Hong Kong Police Quash Vigil to Mark Tiananmen Square Massacre
HONG KONG—Hong Kong police blanketed a busy shopping district late Saturday and stopped people entering a park that traditionally held a mass candlelight vigil on the anniversary of the 1989…
Iran Probes Revolutionary Guard Commander’s Death
Iranian authorities on Friday launched an investigation into what they called the suspicious death of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander at his home near Tehran, Iranian officials said, two…
Hong Kong Steps Up Memorial Bans for Tiananmen Square Massacre Anniversary
HONG KONG—A group of students staged a subtle act to memorialize China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Hong Kong this week. They placed 4-inch high 3-D replicas of a statue…
Ukraine Struggles to Preserve Evidence of Alleged Russian War Crimes
BUCHA, Ukraine—In the weeks since Russian troops pulled out of Bucha, Tetiana Sichkar has repeatedly described watching as her mother was shot and killed. Multiple Ukrainian investigators have interviewed her.…
Iranian Officer Killed in Tehran Was Involved in Plot to Kill Israeli Diplomat, U.S. General
An Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officer shot and killed outside his Tehran home led the group’s efforts to assassinate opponents of Iran around the world, including recent failed plots…
