Chaos unfolds at Sydney mall after multiple stabbings reported

Iran has been accused of seizing a commercial ship with links to Israel as it passed through the Straight of Hormuz. A video filmed from inside MSC Aries and obtained by Reuters news agency appears to show two people rappelling onto the vessel from a helicopter. Iranian special forces boarded the ship about 50 miles (80km) off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a statement from the ship’s operator MSC said. The country’s state news agency, Irna, said the naval branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had…

Three people were injured after a woman, who was being detained, stole a gun from a guard and opened fire at a Chilean market on Monday. A guard and a camera person were among three people injured. The dramatic incident, which took place at Lo Valledor market in Santiago, was captured on a live stream. Video showed the woman being escorted out of the market in police custody.This post was originally published on this site

The country is defending paying the pop star to play nowhere else in Southeast Asia. Thailand’s prime minister said the price was up to $3 million per show. Taylor Swift has descended on Southeast Asia, or one small part of it at least: All of her six sold-out shows are in Singapore, the region’s wealthiest nation. Many of her fans in this part of the world, which is home to more than 600 million people, are disappointed. But the Singapore leg of Ms. Swift’s wildly popular Eras Tour, which began…

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died, the prison service has said. He was seen in a video call in January, joking about his prison outfit at the Arctic penal colony he had been moved to a month earlier. The IK-3 colony, nicknamed “Polar Wolf”, is in the northern town of Kharp, some 1,900km (1,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. It’s seen as one of the toughest jails in Russia and most detainees held there have been convicted of serious crimes. Speaking to journalists on the video call, Navalny appeared…

She worked as a secretary before being hired as an associate producer at the NBC News public affairs show in 1956. She went on to spend 41 years there. Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top producer of the weekly NBC News public affairs program “Meet the Press,” died on March 16 at her home in Bethesda, Md. She was 96. Her late husband’s niece Barbara Dukert Smith said the cause was complications of Alzheimer’s disease. In…

A powerful earthquake has struck Japan, causing large waves and damage to buildings. The 7.6-magnitude quake took place in Noto province on Honshu island, with officials urging people in coastal areas to move to higher ground. Although the full extent of the damage is still unknown, dozens of buildings have collapsed in several towns, trapping a number of people under the rubble. Thousands of people are spending the night in evacuation centres, as the Japanese military have been handing out food, water and blankets to those forced to leave their…