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Separatist fighters in Indonesia's Papua region took a New Zealand pilot hostage after setting fire to a small commercial plane as it landed in a remote mountainous area on Tuesday, a pro-independence group said in a statement.A police spokesman in Papua province, Ignatius Benny Adi Prabowo, said authorities were investigating the incident and military and police personnel had been dispatched to the area to locate the pilot and five passengers.“We can't send a lot of staff there because Nduga is a hard-to-reach area. We can only go there by plane,” she said.A military spokesman in Papua, Herman Taryaman, said the…

The Super Bowl LVII festivities officially kicked off Monday night in Arizona when the media were allowed access to the players and coaches of the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles ahead of Sunday's big game.Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni was among those earning a podium finish, and unsurprisingly, a large contingent was ready to hear how he's preparing for his first shot at a Vince Lombardi Trophy.However, one question in particular surprised Sirianni, and not because it was complex or out of the ordinary.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni speaks to…

NEW DELHI — Hundreds of protesters from India's main opposition party rallied Monday in the Indian capital New Delhi and other cities to demand an investigation into allegations of fraud and stock price manipulation by the second group. India's largest corporation, headed by coal mining magnate Gautam Adani. .The Adani Group said on Monday its main investors, known in India as "developers", had committed to prepay $1.1bn in equity-backed loans due September 2024. The repayments include shares in the ports business. of Adani, Adani Green Energy and Adani. Transmission.Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone shares rose 9% after the announcement.Members…

HONG KONG — Hong Kong's high court ruled Monday that full sex reassignment surgery should not be a prerequisite for transgender people to change their gender on their official identity cards, in a move likely to have a powerful in the transgender community. .A transgender activist, Henry Edward Tse, and a person identified only as Q appealed to the court last month over the government's refusal to change the genders on their ID cards because of their decision not to undergo full sex reassignment surgeries. .Tse and Q are transgender men who had their breasts removed, received hormone treatments, and…