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Marty Small and his wife La'Quetta accused of beating their teenage daughter. — Instagram/@immartysmall Marty Small, the mayor of Atlantic City and his wife La'Quetta on Monday were charged with abusing and assaulting their teenage daughter on multiple occasions.According to NBC News, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said it filed charges against both parents of endangering the welfare of a child by hitting her in the head with a broom and knocking her unconscious.Small was charged with making terroristic threats; aggravated assault, and simple assault while La’Quetta was charged with three separate counts of simple assault.In a news release, the prosecutor’s office said that "the defendants physically and emotionally abused their 15/16-year-old-daughter on multiple occasions" i...

Record rains that inundated the United Arab Emirates and surrounding countries, killing at least 18 people in Oman and bringing air travel to a standstill in Dubai, were expected to continue into Wednesday, the authorities said.Dubai typically records around five inches of rain in a year. The deluge that fell by Tuesday evening alone equaled that amount.For the United Arab Emirates, it was the largest rainfall event in 75 years, the country’s National Center of Meteorology and the government announced on social media.Flights heading to Dubai International Airport were being diverted on Tuesday, the airport said, and it suspended operations for at least 25 minutes earlier in the day because of the intense storm. The airport said there was “major flooding” on roads leading to the airport an...

An Algerian journalist was expelled from the country after flying in from France and not being allowed to leave the airport as journalists continue to face challenges reporting in Algeria.Farid Alilat, a writer for the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique, wrote on Facebook that he spent 11 hours in police custody on Saturday at the airport before being boarded onto a plane and sent to France, where he has a residency permit.Alilat said he regularly takes flights from Paris to Algiers to report on Algeria, where he has for years been a well-known journalist due to his work for French-language daily newspapers including Liberté, which was shuttered in 2022 amid financial problems and scuffles with the government and Algeria's state-owned oil company, both of which are major advertisers ...

Old Copenhagen Stock Exchange building was undergoing renovation when fire broke out on April 16, 2024. — ReutersA massive fire engulfed the old stock exchange building in Copenhagen Tuesday triggering people to save the artifacts and paintings as the structure was collapsing from the blaze. Videos released from the scene showed the fire swirling the distinctive 56-meter tall tower causing it to fall on the ground — one of the oldest buildings in Denmark. According to Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt, 400 years of Danish cultural heritage had gone up in flames.The local media reported that the nearby square was evacuated.The engulfed building dates back to 1625 and is near the Danish Parliament the Folketing which is set up in the royal palace of Christiansborg Castle.The old Copen...

China’s economy grew more than expectedChina’s National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday that the economy grew 1.6 percent in the first quarter over the previous three months, despite a severe real estate crisis and sluggish spending at home. When projected out for the entire year, the first-quarter data indicates that the economy was growing at an annual rate of about 6.6 percent. China had set a growth target of about 5 percent for the year, a goal that many economists viewed as ambitious.The economic boost came from a familiar tactic: heavy investment in manufacturing, including a binge of new factories that have helped to propel sales around the world of solar panels, electric cars and other products.“China may have found a way to blunt the effects of its housing market crisis,” my...

The European Union is planning new sanctions on Iran following Tehran's recent missile and drone attacks on Israel, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday in Brussels."The region is at the edge of an abyss," Borrell warned, describing the tense situation in the Middle East. "We have to move away from it," he added.EU foreign ministers discussed the Iranian attack in a videocall, specially convened after Iran directly attacked Israel on Saturday, for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic.Iran said it was retaliation for the killing of high-ranking Iranian officers in Syria at the start of the month.New punitive measures could be imposed through a sanctions regime set up after Iran began supporting the Russian war on Ukraine by supplying Moscow with drones, Bo...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Police in India killed at least 29 suspected Maoist rebels in the central state of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, authorities said, three days ahead of the start of a national election in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third term.According to a statement, police launched a raid after a tipoff about the presence of Maoists in the Kanker district. Three members of the security forces were wounded in the gunfight, after which police seized several weapons.3 MEN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED GANG RAPE OF TOURIST IN INDIAIndian soldiers have been battling Maoist rebels across several central and northern states since 1967, when the militants — also known as Naxalites — began fighting to demand more jobs, land and wealth from natural resources for the country’s poor indigeno...

Authorities in the United Arab Emirates issued a red alert across the gulf nation advising citizens to remain vigilant as the weather condition continues to get worse Tuesday, forcing the government to shut down schools and send its employees to work remotely.Heavy rain and thunderstorms were witnessed across the UAE with powerful lightening on the skies, starting from late Monday till Tuesday, the local media reported.The National Centre of Meteorology was quoted by Khaleej Times as saying: "Unstable weather conditions will continue to impact the UAE from Monday through Wednesday due to an extension of a low surface pressure and two waves of unstable weather to move across the country on Tuesday." This image released on April 16, 2024, shows officials of Dubai Municipality responding t...

After a grueling hour, there was little to separate the four runners as the finish line approached. But then, one extended his hand toward another and gestured, as if waving him forward. Seconds later, another runner did the same.He Jie of China then strode ahead of the others, a recorded livestream of Sunday’s Beijing Half Marathon shows. The other three runners — Willy Mnangat and Robert Keter from Kenya, and Dejene Hailu from Ethiopia — fell into place just behind him, following from a short distance as He claimed first place.The results of the half-marathon are now under investigation by the race’s organizers, after footage of the finish circulated online and led many to question whether the three African runners had deliberately slowed down.He took first place with a time of 1 hour 3...