New surveillance video released on Wednesday shows a group of sheriff’s deputies rushing into Irvo Otieno’s jail cell in Henrico County, Va., and physically overpowering him, with one of them appearing to punch down multiple times before the officers carry his limp body out to a transport van. The video was recorded on the afternoon […]
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Surveillance video from a state psychiatric hospital in Virginia shows a group of sheriff’s deputies and medical staff piling on a handcuffed man, Irvo Otieno, and pinning him for nearly 11 minutes until his death on March 6. The video, which was obtained by The Washington Post before its expected release on Tuesday, shows at […]
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The American pilot felt his aircraft wobble in the sky near the coast of West Sussex, England, where the beach gleamed below him, and the emerald meadow pastures lay ahead on June 22, 1944. He and nine other crew members aboard a B-24 Liberator had just been jolted by a shell from a German antiaircraft […]
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Two people were killed and four others were caught in two separate avalanches in Colorado since Friday, the authorities said. The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said on Sunday on Facebook that an avalanche in the Maroon Bowl area of Highland Peak outside the ski area of Aspen Highlands claimed the life of one person. The […]
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A couple of streets away from the new buildings and noisy main road of the desert city of Falluja, there was once a sports stadium. The goal posts are long gone, the stands rotted years ago. Now, every inch is covered with gravestones. “This is the martyrs’ graveyard,” said Kamil Jassim Mohammed, 70, the cemetery’s […]
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In the weeks since Vincenzo Luciano pulled a dozen bodies from the rough sea in southern Italy, he has kept a careful eye on the beach, now strewn with jackets and sneakers, for the missing son of a shipwreck survivor he promised to help find. On Wednesday, Mr. Luciano, a 50-year-old fisherman, watched from a […]
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KOKOMO, Ind. — Tammy Cunningham doesn’t remember the birth of her son. She was not quite seven months pregnant when she became acutely ill with Covid-19 in May 2021. By the time she was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital, she was coughing and gasping for breath. The baby was not due for another […]
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Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19, and new government data show that maternal mortality rose sharply in 2021, the second year of the pandemic. Here’s what women need to know to keep themselves safe. If I’m pregnant or trying to get pregnant, how do I protect myself from Covid? The most important step is […]
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KYIV, Ukraine — The United States on Wednesday promised to “fully and quickly” give Ukraine the weapons required for a spring counteroffensive against Russia, addressing one of the most critical needs amid a global shortage of ammunition caused in part by the yearlong conflict. The intensity of the battles in Ukraine has strained the production […]
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LILONGWE, Malawi — As a surge of water came roaring down a hill in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre, on Sunday, a 15-year-old girl said she saw it coming from the veranda of her home, grabbed her four younger siblings and ran. “It was terrifying,” said the girl, Alinafe Petrol, speaking on an aid worker’s phone. “We started […]
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KYIV, Ukraine — From Kupiansk in the north to Avdiivka in the south, through Bakhmut, Lyman and dozens of towns in between, Russian forces are attacking along a 160-mile arc in eastern Ukraine in an intensifying struggle for tactical advantage before possible spring offensives. Heavy fighting was reported on Monday in and around Avdiivka, a […]
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At least eight people died after the small boats they were in capsized near a San Diego beach, the authorities said on Sunday. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department lifeguards responded to a 911 call around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday, according to the department spokeswoman, Monica Muñoz. The caller, a woman, said she and other passengers of […]
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When a powerful earthquake struck southern Turkey last month, a lawyer concluded that her relatives had been buried in the rubble of their collapsed apartment. Three days later, rescue workers recovered the bodies of her mother and brother, she said, but days, then weeks, then a month passed with no sign of her father. His […]
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The air-raid siren’s wail woke Yoshiko Hashimoto from her sleep. It was just after midnight on March 10, 1945, when the first of hundreds of American bombers appeared over Tokyo. Incendiary bombs soon crashed through tile rooftops, igniting fires in the surrounding thicket of tinderbox homes. Hashimoto and her family fled for their lives. They […]
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ADIYAMAN, Turkey — Beneath each fresh mound in this rapidly expanding graveyard lies a tragedy. One morning at dawn, Zeki Karababa told me about his. Karababa’s brother, Hamit; Hamit’s wife, Fatma; and two children, Ahmet, 10, and Evra, 3, had been crushed when their apartment building crumbled in the earthquake. But that was just the […]
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There was Ms. Avenatti, who the department said had “a significant medical history” but who, according to neighbors, had refused entreaties to take shelter with them, insisting that she had seen worse in her years on the mountain. Another victim, a 77-year-old man, was last known to be alive on the night of Feb. 28; […]
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Hannah Wanjiru was plagued by dizzy spells and headaches for years. After a half-dozen costly trips to the doctor, she was finally diagnosed with high blood pressure. It took two more years — and some fainting spells — before she finally started to take medication. By then, her husband, David Kimani, had […]
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As mountain communities in Southern California gradually emerge from piles of snow, at least four people have been found dead in their homes, spurring concerns that the death toll will climb higher among those who have been trapped for two weeks. The four individuals were discovered in the Big Bear area of San Bernardino County, […]
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The National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that it had opened a special investigation into safety practices at Norfolk Southern Railway because the company had suffered five significant accidents since December 2021, including a major derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. Norfolk Southern has been under scrutiny since that derailment of a train […]
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The Israeli military carried out a raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that it said was aimed at arresting a suspect in the fatal shooting of two Israeli brothers recently. In the spiraling violence, six Palestinians were killed, according to Palestinian health officials, and Israel said one of them was […]
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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s armed forces spied on a human rights defender and journalists who were investigating allegations that soldiers had gunned down innocent people, documents show, providing clear evidence of the military’s illegal use of surveillance tools against civilians. The government has been embroiled in scandal for years over the use of sophisticated spyware against […]
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Soon after he deployed to Ukraine last fall, Pvt. Ivan A. Ovlashenko filmed a short video of himself wearing camouflage fatigues and an olive green fleece hat, sitting in a woods flecked with yellowing leaves while fellow soldiers nearby readied an artillery round to fire toward the Ukrainian lines. “I am recording everything right,” he […]
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Shahida Raza played on Pakistan’s national soccer and field hockey teams, but her athletic prowess did not make her rich or allow her emigrate to Europe legally. That helps explain why Ms. Raza, a mother of one, was traveling to Italy from Turkey last month on a boat with other economic migrants from Central Asia. […]
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The fire service in Greece started winding down a gruesome search on Friday at the scene of the country’s deadliest train crash on record as the authorities informed the relatives of some victims identified by their DNA and other families desperately sought information about missing loved ones. The crash occurred late Tuesday near the Vale […]
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The Greek government was supposed to install a safety system nearly three years ago that was designed to prevent the kind of head-on train collision that resulted this week in the worst railway disaster in the nation’s history. As a freight train and a passenger train barreled toward each other at high speeds on the […]
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The criminal case against Alex Murdaugh, the former lawyer accused of killing his wife and son, is part of a web of accusations, investigations and lawsuits that have accompanied the downfall of a member of one of South Carolina’s most prominent legal dynasties. Mr. Murdaugh was for years a well-known lawyer specializing in civil litigation. […]
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After years of pandemic-forced cancellations, Athens last weekend hosted carnival, and scores of Greeks flocked in to celebrate. Vaios Vlachos and his girlfriend, who dressed up as marble busts, were among them before they rushed to catch a night train on Tuesday that would get them home in time for work the next morning. But […]
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After hours of deliberation over safety concerns, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday recommended approval of a second vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus in older adults, advancing the first shots against a respiratory illness that can be deadly for the very young and the very old. Over two days this week, […]
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Arrest warrants have been issued for Jalen Carter, a potential top-five pick in the coming N.F.L. draft, in connection with a car crash in January that killed two people, including a University of Georgia teammate, hours after the team’s parade for winning the national championship. The Athens-Clarke County Police Department said Wednesday that Carter, who […]
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At least 32 people were killed when a passenger train and a freight train collided in northern Greece, with an impact so intense that cranes were being used to remove wreckage in the search for survivors, a Greek fire service official said on Wednesday. The cause of the crash, which happened just before midnight on […]
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TEMPE, Greece — A passenger train collided with an oncoming freight train in northern Greece early on Wednesday, killing at least 32 people, officials from Greece’s Fire Service said. Multiple train cars derailed and at least three caught fire after the crash near Tempe, a small town about 235 miles north of Athens. Hospital officials […]
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