An Irish citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for strangling American tourist Mackenzie Michalski to death in Budapest in 2024. The suspect met the victim at a nightclub, and the killing occurred at his flat.
An Irish citizen was sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for strangling American tourist Mackenzie Michalski to death in Budapest in 2024. The suspect met the victim at a nightclub, and the killing occurred at his rented flat.
An Irish man has been sentenced to 14 years in prison in Hungary for the murder of American tourist Mackenzie Michalski in Budapest. The court found the man guilty after he confessed to beating and strangling Michalski during an intimate encounter in his apartment, then attempting to conceal the crime.
Two American tourists were arrested in Ichikawa, Japan, after one entered an enclosure with a famous orphaned macaque named Punch. The incident occurred on May 17th at the zoo, where a man in an emoji costume threw a toy, scaring the monkeys. Both tourists face charges for disrupting business operations.
Two retired union lawyers from Los Angeles have arrived in Havana for a 10-day holiday despite President Trump's repeated threats of military action and intensified sanctions against Cuba. Leslie Simon, 67, and Marc Bender, 70, flew in via Miami wearing "ICE OUT!" badges, expressing criticism of US history while expressing love for Cuba. Their visit comes as Washington has imposed a full oil blockade on the island, devastating tourism which has dropped from 170,000-180,000 visitors in March 2025 to just 35,561 in March 2026.
