An influential Protestant church in China says prominent leaders were arrested in what appears to be a growing crackdown on the underground church movement

Nine people were detained on Tuesday after police raided their homes and the church office in Chengdu, the Early Rain Covenant Church said. Five of them had been released by Wednesday. More than 1,000 miles away in Wenzhou, authorities began demolishing the Yayang Church building, as seen in video obtained by the non-profit ChinaAid, which...
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Salt Lake City church shooting leaves 2 dead and several injured” At least 2 people are dead and six others are injured after a shooting outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Salt Lake City, authorities said.

2 killed, several injured in shooting outside Salt Lake City church during funeral Two people were killed and six others injured in a shooting outside a Salt Lake City church Wednesday night while mourners were attending a memorial service inside, police said. The shooting took place in the back parking lot of a house of...
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Andrew was paid millions by oligarch with funds from firm linked to bribery scheme”

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received millions of pounds from an oligarch using funds from a firm implicated in criminal corruption, a BBC investigation has found. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received millions of pounds from an oligarch using funds from a firm implicated in criminal corruption, a BBC investigation has found. Kazakh billionaire Timur Kulibayev has told the BBC through...
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WAKAYAMAA: Calico cat named Yontama was appointed Wednesday the third feline stationmaster of a local Japanese railway station.

Continuing an almost two-decade tradition that has boosted tourism and helped rescue the line from financial difficulties while sparking similar moves by other rail operators During a ceremony at Kishi Station on Wakayama Electric Railway Co’s Kishigawa Line, the railway company also introduced its latest feline apprentice recruit, Rokutama. New stationmaster Yontama’s predecessor Nitama, also...
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Aidarous al-Zubaidi fled to Abu Dhabi under UAE supervision: Coalition”

The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen’s internationally-recognized government said that Aidarus al-Zubaidi, head of the Southern Transitional Council (STC), fled Aden for Somaliland. In a statement obtained by Al Arabiya, the coalition said al-Zubaidi fled by sea after midnight on January 7 before traveling onward to Abu Dhabi under Emirati supervision. For all the latest headlines...
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