Monday, January 16, 2023

Armenian museum reopens in Jerusalem's Old City January 16, 2023 at 02:58AM

A hundred years after taking in scores of children whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide, a 19th-century orphanage in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter has reopened its doors as a museum documenting the community's rich, if pained, history.

Death toll in Ukraine's Dnipro rises to 40 after Russian attack: City official January 16, 2023 at 01:30AM

The death toll at an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro that was hit during a Russian missile attack rose to 40 on Monday with 30 people still unaccounted for, a local city official said.

Death toll rises to 14 in Congo church attack claimed by Islamic State January 16, 2023 at 01:50AM

The death toll from a church bombing in east Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday has risen to 14, an army spokesman said on Monday.

Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro arrested after 30 years January 16, 2023 at 12:25AM

A 60-year-old Sicilian mobster, Matteo Messina Denaro, is captured by Italian anti-mafia police on Monday. Denaro is believed to have become the "boss of bosses" following the death of Salvatore "The Beast" Riina in November 2022. Denaro is the most significant mafia boss in Italy and his arrest in his native Sicily is a great victory for the state in its war against organized crime.

China petrochemical plant shut after deadly explosion January 15, 2023 at 11:24PM

Italian police arrest most wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro January 15, 2023 at 10:59PM

Messina Denaro, who was detained in the Sicilian capital Palermo, is alleged to be a boss of Sicily's Cosa Nostra mafia. He has been sentenced in absentia to a life term for his role in the 1992 murders of anti-mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.