Italy transfers 40 rejected asylum seekers to detention centers in Albania

Italy on Friday transferred 40 migrants who were denied the right to stay in the country to Italian-run detention centers in Albania. This is the first time an EU member state has relocated rejected asylum seekers to a third country that is neither their country of origin nor a transit country.

Legal experts and rights groups have raised the alarm over the move, questioning its legality and accusing Italy of undermining asylum rights.

Helicopter crash in New York leaves 6 dead

A New York City sightseeing helicopter carrying six people — including three children — crashed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon.
A Spanish executive from Siemens, a technology company, and his family are among the dead. The pilot also died.

A bomb exploded near the office of the national train company in Athens, no injuries reported

A bomb planted near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece's main railway company, exploded in a busy district of central Athens, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

The explosion comes amid widespread public outrage over the 2023 Tempi rail disaster, in which 57 people were killed when a freight train and a passenger train traveling in opposite directions collided on the same tracks.

Update from the tragedy in the Dominican Republic: More than 200 dead

More than 200 people, including 17 American citizens, died after the roof of the popular Jet Set nightclub collapsed in the Dominican Republic's capital, Santo Domingo, this week in one of the Caribbean country's worst tragedies.

The deadly incident claimed the lives of several prominent Dominicans, including at least two former Major League Baseball players and Pérez, sending shockwaves across the country as investigators search for its cause.