On Saturday, a female lion killed a 14-year-old girl at a ranch located south of Nairobi National Park in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). The attack occurred inside of the girl's own home.
On Friday, Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, plead not guilty to the charges of murder and stalking. He appeared in Lower Manhattan court on Friday, where he stated his plea to the judge.
On Friday, a federal grand jury in Baltimore, United States indicted a Maryland man known as “the Garri Master” for allegedly conspiring to provide material support to armed separatist fighters in Cameroon, Africa, according to the US Department of Justice. Prosecutors said the man, named Tataw, called for violent attacks against civilians in Cameroon and aided in raising funds to support said operations.
On Wednesday, police said they had located the remains of a man who was killed by a shark on Olga Beach in northern Israel on Monday. The victim was identified as Barak Tzach, a 40-year-old father of four. The shark attack was the country's first fatal shark attack incident since Israel's founding in 1948.
Pope Francis passed away at age 88, on April 21, 2025, 7:35 a.m. local time in Vatican City. His death followed a five-week stay in hospital a month earlier, where he suffered from a respiratory tract infection and double pneumonia. The cause of his death was officially registered as a stroke followed by irreversible cardiac arrest.
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