Prabhu Ramamoorthy was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Detroit. He was jailed after being accused of molesting a woman on an overnight flight in January.
The claims, so far, fall short of the record $12 billion in wildfire-related insured losses sustained in California in 2017.
The two are Cardinal George Pell of Australia and Francisco Javier Errazuriz of Chile. Both have been the subject of allegations related to sexual abuse - accusations they deny.
Bo Kaap, declared a Muslim-only area during apartheid, is the scene of a bitter battle between residents and property developers in recent months.
The operation was carried out against a handful of what are now known to be hundreds of illegal Amazon mines in Brazil that have been catalogued for the first time in a study released on Monday.
The Red Cross says that migrants are ill-equipped to survive freezing temperatures and some might not make it through winter.
The new Saudi policy affects hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have temporary travel documents but no national identification numbers.
Slovakia's Roma community, having suffered from discrimination across Europe for generations, say they are treated abysmally by hospitals.
In their speeches during Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony, Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad called on the world to do more to protect the victims of wartime sexual violence.
The two-weeks COP24 conference in Poland's Katowice is billed as the most important UN conference since the Paris 2015 agreement on climate change.
A Long March 3B rocket carrying a lunar probe blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province in southwestern China.
The UN agency for information and communication technologies, ITU, said that by the end of 2018 a full 51.2 percent of people around the world will be using the Internet.
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