Unbiased headline news for Monday March 11, 2024 – Over the weekend, voters rejected two amendments to Ireland’s constitution that aimed to provide more inclusive language around family and caregivers.
Some 67% of voters said “no” to the Family referendum, which proposed changes to the 39th Amendment, expanding the definition of family in the constitution to recognize “durable relationships” such as unmarried couples with children.
A Moscow court has sentenced a student to 10 days in jail for naming his Wi-Fi network with a pro-Ukrainian title.
The Moscow State University student named the Wi-Fi network “Slava Ukraini” which means “Glory to Ukraine,” according to the database of the Nikulinsky District Court. The phrase has become the rallying cry of Ukraine’s forces. The court called the act a “public demonstration of Nazi symbolics or symbols of extremist organizations,” according to the BBC.
Ukrainian and allied officials criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the “courage” to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call for Ukraine to surrender.
The foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland, a vocal ally of Kyiv, condemned the pope’s remarks. And a leader of one of Ukraine’s Christian churches said that only the country’s determined resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion, launched by Russian President Vladimir Putin had prevented a mass slaughter of civilians.
The U.S. Air Force and the Royal Jordanian Air Force teamed up in the latest mission to airdrop desperately needed humanitarian aid into northern Gaza to “alleviate human suffering” there, according to a statement from the U.S. Central Command.
The equivalent of more than 11,500 meals, including rice, flour, pasta and canned goods, that were provided by the Jordanian Air Force were loaded on U.S. Air Force C-130 planes that dropped pallets of aid attached to parachutes over northern Gaza, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
Four adults and one child were killed when a small plane crashed near Ingalls Airport in Virginia, the Virginia State Police said Sunday.
The plane, a twin-engine IAI Astra 1125, crashed near the airport in Bath County around 3 p.m. local time, according to the FAA. The plane, described by police as a private jet, crashed into the woods in the 6200 block of Airport Rd. It caught fire on impact, the authorities said.
A suspect in a weekend shooting that killed two people and injured another at a North Carolina home died in a shootout with deputies hours afterward outside another house, a sheriff said.
In a social media post, Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell said that Justin Michael Strawser was wearing a bulletproof vest and firing at deputies when he was killed in the shootout outside a home in Mooresville.
Thousands of women took to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women’s Day Friday despite a ban by the government.
Waving purple flags as a sign of International Women’s Day, they filled the air with slogans and rallying cries despite a ban on rallies by authorities. “The world would shake if women were free,” “Resist for rebellion, resist for freedom,” and “Woman, Life, Freedom,” they chanted.
Eight children and an adult died after eating sea turtle meat on Pemba Island in the Zanzibar archipelago and 78 other people were hospitalized, authorities said.
Sea turtle meat is considered a delicacy by Zanzibar’s people even though it periodically results in deaths from chelonitoxism, a type of food poisoning. The adult who died late last Friday was the mother of one of the children who succumbed earlier, said the Mkoani District medical officer, Dr. Haji Bakari. He said the turtle meat was consumed last Tuesday.
