A court on the Indonesian island of Bali has sentenced a Swiss tourist to one year in prison for insulting a sacred Balinese Hindu day.
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen was found guilty of violating Indonesia’s new criminal code by posting social media messages about the Day of Silence, when people are required to stay home and are urged to remain silent.
A court on the Indonesian island of Bali has sentenced a Swiss tourist to one year in prison for insulting a sacred Balinese Hindu day.
Luzian Andrin Zgraggen was found guilty of violating Indonesia’s new criminal code by posting social media messages about the Day of Silence, when people are required to stay home and are urged to remain silent.
Strong winds turned a plane upside down at an airport in northern Italy on Friday, as a violent storm brought down trees and caused damage across the area.
Video geolocated by CNN shows the moment a Ukrainian drone struck a logistics hub in Russia’s Dagestan region on Monday morning. Ukraine’s defense technology company Fire Point confirmed it struck three Ozon logistics hubs at once. The Russian online retailer said several people were injured in the drone attack.
The US has carried out its first known strike in more than two months on an alleged drug trafficking vessel in the eastern Pacific. Two people were killed in the strike, according to US Southern Command.
In 2015, Hirosaki Castle in Japan was moved about 80 meters (262ft) on rails so workers could repair its supporting stone walls. CNN’s Hanako Montgomery explains how over 10 years later, a thousand people have been recruited to help move it back.
Over the past few decades, “Black August,” or “the August curse,” has become a sort of journalistic shorthand in Russia for dramatic crises that seem to happen in the last weeks of summer. The past summer in Russia has also been shaping up as a bleak season for Putin’s Russia. CNN’s Sebastian Shukla reports.
Far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir boasted of the construction of a new gallows for hanging Palestinians facing the death sentence. The site, he said, will have a viewing area. Earlier this year, Ben Gvir led an effort to broaden Israel’s death penalty so it effectively applies to Palestinians convicted of terrorism, but not to Israelis. With elections two months away, Ben Gvir’s rhetoric seems unlikely to stop.
North Korean flight attendants laugh and pose for selfies before a flight in Wonsan. It’s an ordinary moment in a place we rarely get to see as ordinary. CNN’s Will Ripley explains what he learned from his own encounters with Air Koryo crews.
