A Mexican man extradited from Mexico pleaded guilty today for conspiring to smuggle thousands of aliens from multiple countries into the United States for financial gain. According to court documents, beginning in November 2020 and continuing through September 2023, Efrain Zuniga-Garcia, 38, of Mexico, and others were part of a vast international alien smuggling organization…
SpaceX employees go to work at the SpaceX facility in Hawthorne on the day of their company’s IPO, in Hawthorne, California, June 12, 2026. Mike Blake | Reuters Elon Musk’s SpaceX will need to achieve at least two of its three “moonshots” to justify its huge valuation, a former Tesla board member told CNBC Friday. …
For eight decades since World War II, members of neo-Nazi parties have never been directly elected mayor of any town in Germany, amid a postwar effort to shape its national identity around a rejection of the Nazi era. On Sunday in a small town in eastern Germany, local residents are closer than ever to breaking…
In Harriet Clark’s debut novel, The Hill, a nun explains what it’s like for babies born in prison. “They don’t know that they are in prison,” she says, “but they know when we force them to leave.” The book’s child protagonist is Suzanna, whose mother has been serving a life sentence for as long as…
Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares expressed concern about the ‘illegal detention’ of Saif Abukeshek and asserted that he was ‘kidnapped’. Madrid has demanded the release of a Spanish citizen who was arrested during a raid on a flotilla headed for Gaza and taken to Israel for “questioning”. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares told Catalan radio station RAC1…
The last member of a transnational Colombian robbery crew in Miami was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for his role in a series of robberies of and thefts from jewelry couriers that targeted high-end retailers and resulted in losses exceeding $5 million. Leroy Ortega, also known as “el Enano,” 43, of Miami, was…
A Danish-French national has been sentenced to six years in prison for terrorism-related offences by the District Court in Glostrup, following an investigation supported by Europol’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC). A Europol specialist was called to testify during the court proceedings. This underscores the European Law Enforcement Agency’s role in supporting judicial authorities with…
Published on 27/04/2026 – 11:24 GMT+2 Nedra Talley Ross, the last surviving member of the ’60s girl group The Ronettes, has aged 80. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Ross, who died at her home yesterday (Sunday 26 April), was one part of the seminal band with her cousins Ronnie Spector and Estelle Bennett. The news of her death…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, November 13. The first-ever Solidarity Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) member countries will be held from November 23 to 26, 2025. The official opening of the forum will take place on November 24 at the Gulustan Palace in Baku, the Agency for State Support of…
Shorouk Express The announcement from the EU’s executive will now kick off fraught negotiations within the 27-nation bloc as countries are increasingly wary of volunteering to take people in. The bloc adopted a sweeping overhaul of its migration policies in 2024, which is soon to come into force. A key element is…
