INDIA
Wolf killed after attacks
Residents in the Bahraich district of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh have beaten to death a wolf believed to be the last of a six-member pack that killed nine people, eight of them children, wildlife officials said yesterday. The gray wolves were said to have attacked more than 40 people. Five of the animals were trapped, with drones and surveillance cameras suggesting that only one remained free. Government forest officer Ajit Singh said villagers had contacted his team yesterday after they killed a prowling wolf. “It seems it is part of the same pack of wolves,” Singh said. Wildlife officials say heavy flooding had swamped the wolves’ usual territory, driving them into areas of more populated farmland.
UNITED STATES
Florida braces for storm
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Saturday declared a state of emergency as forecasters warned that the state — still reeling from Hurricane Helene — could be slammed by another major storm this week. Tropical Storm Milton, currently churning in the western Gulf of Mexico, was “forecast to strengthen into a major hurricane as it moves toward Florida into midweek next week,” the National Weather Service wrote on social media. Milton could potentially bring fresh havoc to areas of Florida’s west coast still recovering from Helene, which killed at least 220 people.
DR CONGO
Mpox vaccinations start
Health officials on Saturday launched their first mpox vaccination campaign, a key step in efforts to contain an outbreak that has spread from its epicenter in the country to numerous other African nations this year. Officials held a ceremony to mark the start of vaccinations at a hospital in Goma, where health workers were first in line to receive the shots. The Ministry of Public Health on Friday said the campaign’s scope would be small due to limited resources. At the moment, 265,000 vaccine doses are available, although more are in the pipeline.
HUNGARY//
Thousands protest state news
Thousands of people on Saturday gathered outside the headquarters of the state broadcaster MTVA, protesting against what they described as the government’s “propaganda machine” and calling for an independent public service media. The protesters, from the opposition TISZA Party, said the state broadcaster is running biased propaganda, featuring only politicians from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party and government, and analysts repeating their narrative. “We have had enough of the malice, the lies, the propaganda, our patience has run out,” Tisza leader Peter Magyar told the crowd. “What we have as public service media in Hungary today is a global scandal, we have had enough.”
PERU
Child sacrifice site found
In a vacant lot outside Trujillo, archeologists have unearthed the remains of nearly four dozen children — all thought to have been ritually sacrificed more than 600 years ago. “Many of these remains have cuts on the sternum, some on their ribs,” archeologist Julio Asencio said from the excavation site. Each child was buried separately, he said. The remains of two adults and nine llamas — thought to be an offering representing their source of food, clothing and transportation — were also found nearby. They likely belonged to the local Chimu group, which dominated northern Peru from the 700s to the late 1400s, Asencio said.
‘UNUSUAL EVENT’: The Australian defense minister said that the Chinese navy task group was entitled to be where it was, but Australia would be watching it closely The Australian and New Zealand militaries were monitoring three Chinese warships moving unusually far south along Australia’s east coast on an unknown mission, officials said yesterday. The Australian government a week ago said that the warships had traveled through Southeast Asia and the Coral Sea, and were approaching northeast Australia. Australian Minister for Defence Richard Marles yesterday said that the Chinese ships — the Hengyang naval frigate, the Zunyi cruiser and the Weishanhu replenishment vessel — were “off the east coast of Australia.” Defense officials did not respond to a request for comment on a Financial Times report that the task group from
DEFENSE UPHEAVAL: Trump was also to remove the first woman to lead a military service, as well as the judge advocates general for the army, navy and air force US President Donald Trump on Friday fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, and pushed out five other admirals and generals in an unprecedented shake-up of US military leadership. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social that he would nominate former lieutenant general Dan “Razin” Caine to succeed Brown, breaking with tradition by pulling someone out of retirement for the first time to become the top military officer. The president would also replace the head of the US Navy, a position held by Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead a military service,
Four decades after they were forced apart, US-raised Adamary Garcia and her birth mother on Saturday fell into each other’s arms at the airport in Santiago, Chile. Without speaking, they embraced tearfully: A rare reunification for one the thousands of Chileans taken from their mothers as babies and given up for adoption abroad. “The worst is over,” Edita Bizama, 64, said as she beheld her daughter for the first time since her birth 41 years ago. Garcia had flown to Santiago with four other women born in Chile and adopted in the US. Reports have estimated there were 20,000 such cases from 1950 to
CONFIDENT ON DEAL: ‘Ukraine wants a seat at the table, but wouldn’t the people of Ukraine have a say? It’s been a long time since an election, the US president said US President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and added that he was more confident of a deal to end the war after US-Russia talks. Trump increased pressure on Zelenskiy to hold elections and chided him for complaining about being frozen out of talks in Saudi Arabia. The US president also suggested that he could meet Russian President Vladimir Putin before the end of the month as Washington overhauls its stance toward Russia. “I’m very disappointed, I hear that they’re upset about not having a seat,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida when asked about the Ukrainian
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