An 8-year-old chess prodigy made history as the youngest player to defeat a chess grandmaster. The boy,Aswath Kaushik, beat Jacek Stopa at a chess tournament in Switzerland. Kaushik, who was born in India but lives in Singapore, handed 37-year-old Stopa of Poland a loss during the Burgdorfer Stadthaus Open on Sunday, according to Chess.com, a chess website and social media …
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London —Britain’s Defense Secretary Grant Shapps sought to reassure U.K. lawmakers Wednesday that the country’s nuclear deterrent weapons program was functional and ready to be called upon if needed after a second consecutive missile test reportedly failed. A nuclear-capable Trident II missile test launched in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida on Jan. 30 reportedly splashed back down shortly …
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Acapulco, Mexico — Five charred bodies were found Tuesday in a remote village in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero after reports of a confrontation between suspected criminals, local authorities said. The state prosecutor’s office said on social media that police, soldiers and forensic experts went to the mountain community of Las Tunas to verify the reports. “They located the …
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The United States on Tuesday vetoed an Arab-backed and widely supported U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in the embattled Gaza Strip, saying it would interfere with negotiations on a deal to free hostages abducted in Israel. The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 13-1 with the United Kingdom abstaining, reflecting the strong support …
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As the death toll in Gaza rises, Prince William said he wants to see an “end to the fighting” in the Israel-Hamas war as soon as possible. William, who recently returned to public royal duties after taking time off while his wife Kate, the Princess of Wales, recovered from surgery, said it was critical for aid to get into Gaza. …
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Adding to the anguish felt by the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s family, his mother and his team have reportedly been denied access to his body and told by investigators that the official probe into his death is being extended, and it’s unclear how long it will take. “They are cowardly and meanly hiding his body, refusing to give …
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A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse issued a final report on Monday that indicts his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others. The indictments are expected to further destabilize Haiti as it struggles with a surge in gang violence and recovers from a …
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A man who prosecutors say agreed to pilot a small, unseaworthy boat full of migrants illegally from France to Britain, leading to the vessel capsizing and killing at least four people, was convicted Monday of manslaughter in a landmark U.K. court case. CBS News partner network BBC News said the conviction of Ibrahima Bah was the first time a migrant …
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Cairo — Just weeks after an Egyptian-Japanese archaeological team announced an ambitious project to reconstruct the outer granite casing of the pyramid of King Menkaure, the smallest of the three main pyramids at Egypt’s iconic Giza Necropolis, a committee appointed to review the plans has declared it “impossible.” Criticism and fear over the plans for the piece of Egyptian national …
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The U.S. military conducted five self-defense strikes in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, including one against an unmanned underwater vessel, U.S. Central Command said Sunday. Saturday’s incident marked the first observed Houthi use of an unmanned underwater vessel since attacks in the Red Sea region started in October, CENTCOM said. The military on Saturday between 3 p.m. and 8 …
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