The US president has told a story about his uncle getting shot down over New Guinea during WWII, contrary to military records Read Full Article at RT.com

The Israeli prime minister reportedly canceled an original plan of reprisal against Iran after speaking with Washington Read Full Article at RT.com

Helping Ukraine should be a priority for NATO members, the alliance’s chief has said Read Full Article at RT.com

A canal funded by Beijing will reduce regional reliance on Vietnam, a fellow communist state and a traditional rival Read Full Article at RT.com

The store (pictured) in Southville, Bristol, leaves the automatic doors shut until customers are viewed on camera to see if they are suspected or well-known thieves.

Maybe he's a lonely leprechaun looking for his four-leafed clover (divorced since 2018). But McNally's sordid smears have now sagged lower than his man teats.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's predecessor Bill Morneau says there was talk of increasing the capital gains tax while he was on the job — but he resisted such a change because he feared it would discourage investment by companies and job creators.

G7 countries are also set to take measures to counter alleged attempts to circumvent its price cap on Russian oil

Yuan rate grew by 1 kopeck, to 12.99 rubles

The G7 finance ministers and Central Bank chiefs also condemned «the unprecedented attack against Israel by Iran»

According to Governor Alexander Gusev, last night the air defenses on duty in the Voronezh Region detected and destroyed several air targets, including three weather probes

The IDF also said that its soldiers were forced to open fire in the area in order to «remove an imminent threat»

SINGAPORE — Cordlife's board of directors has lodged a police report on April 17 over potential wrongdoings, amid an internal probe. Processes at the cord blood banking company have been in the spotlight after it was revealed on Nov 30, 2023, that cryopreserved CBUs (cord blood units) in seven of its 22 storage tanks were exposed to suboptimal storage temperatures. In one of the seven tanks, 2,200 cord blood units were rendered unsuitable for stem cell transplants. Cordlife said in the filing: « Based on the preliminary findings of internal investigations conducted by an external consultant engaged by the COI (the Committee of Inquiry, which are still ongoing) and the information available, the COI is of the view that it has uncovered preliminary evidence of potential wrongdoings involving mostly former employees of the group in connection with the Tank A incident.» In a bourse filing on April 18, the company said it had convened a COI to conduct internal investigations into why about 2,200 cord blood units in Tank A were damaged.

Tangkak Beef Noodles is known, among other things, for its deliciously thick slices of beef - but perhaps they aren't quite as thick as this woman's skin, if netizens are to be believed. A woman has earned the ire of netizens after using her body to 'chope' a parking lot in Malaysia, holding it for a Singapore-registered car, according to a video uploaded to SG Road Vigilante last Saturday (April 13). In the video, a car turns into a parking lot right outside Tangkak Beef Noodles in Kluang, Malaysia, but stops when the driver notices a woman standing in the lot. The woman, holding an umbrella in the rain, is quick to wave her hand as the car approaches, shooing the driver away as she stands her ground, refusing to move. She also motions to indicate disapproval as the driver tries to park, denying the driver from parking in the lot. Later, an image of a Singapore-registered car is shown in the video, presumably the car that took the lot instead. Her actions enraged many online with some specifically addressing her «kiasu-ism (Slang for a scared-to-lose behaviour)».

An elderly woman was devasted to find her son's cold and stiff body when she woke up from her afternoon nap on Tuesday (April 16).  Chen, 80, lived with her son at Block 51 Chin Swee Road.  «His bed is opposite mine, when I saw him motionless, I called my friend who lives nearby for help. My friend called the authorities, who later arrived and pronounced my son dead,» she told Shin Min Daily News. According to Chen, her son suffered from depression, and had a lot of medication around the house.  During the interview with Shin Min, the elderly woman appeared to be in distress, her hands trembling as she spoke.  Before her son's body was taken away at about 4pm, Chen returned to her flat to see him for the final time.  Police officers were also seen conducting investigations at Chen's unit that afternoon.  In response to AsiaOne's queries, the police said they were alerted to a case of unnatural death at about 1.30pm on Tuesday.  A 60-year-old man was found lying motionless in a residential unit and was pronounced dead at scene by an SCDF paramedic.

[VOA] Goma -- In the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, specifically in the Beni and Butembo region, parents are finding it hard getting vaccines for their children. Health care providers report that vaccines have been in short supply for several months, leaving thousands of children unvaccinated. Parents worried about their children's health are calling on authorities to quickly resolve the situation.

[VOA] Yaounde, Cameroon -- The state of health care in Cameroon is a source of growing concern, with thousands of doctors fleeing the central African country for lucrative jobs elsewhere, especially in Europe and North America, according to officials.

A hearing to decide whether a B.C. man who killed his three children can continue to go out in public unescorted ended abruptly and without a decision on Wednesday, after the man shouted at members of the B.C. Review Board and his lawyer quit the case.

Les électeurs des îles Salomon, petit pays du Pacifique, votent ce mercredi 17 avril, lors d'une élection nationale qui pourrait influer sur la sécurité régionale. L'un des enjeux du scrutin étant de savoir si le pays renforcera ou non ses liens avec la Chine. Le Premier ministre sortant, Manasseh Sogavare, s'est engagé à approfondir son rapprochement avec Pékin s'il est réélu, alors que ses principaux adversaires souhaitent réduire l'influence chinoise sur l'archipel.

Accusé du meurtre de sa femme en 2017 puis relaxé en 2021, Donald McPherson résiderait dans le Pacifique, entre la Polynésie française et Fidji. Trois ans plus tard, la famille de la victime l'attaque devant la justice britannique, pour l'empêcher de toucher l'héritage de sa veuve : 4,4 millions de livres sterling, soit plus de 610 millions cfp.

Un phénomène exceptionnel de grêle a été observé en novembre dernier sur l'atoll de Haraiki à 600 km à l'est de Tahiti. Les auteurs de la vidéo témoignent.

Le monde de la danse une fois de plus entaché par une affaire d'ice. Un danseur d'un groupe marquisien a été intercepté aux Etats-Unis avec plusieurs kilos d'ice en sa possession. Les forces de l'ordre américaines l'ont arrêté à l'aéroport de Los Angeles.

French authorities on Wednesday evicted hundreds of migrants from a squat in a southern suburb of Paris with just 100 days to go until the Olympics, encouraging them to board buses to other parts of France. Charities have accused the authorities of seeking to clear homeless people from the French capital to make it look better for the Games from July 26 to August 11. The abandoned office building in Vitry-sur-Seine had been home to up to 450 migrants, most of them documented but awaiting social housing, according to non-governmental organisations who visited to help them. Several had left the building earlier in the week after authorities announced the upcoming eviction. Clutching their belongings in bags, suitcases or trolleys, some 300 people who had remained left calmly on Wednesday morning under the eye of police in riot gear, looking worried about their next step. Most were young men, but several women with children were also among the crowd. One by one, holding documents in plastic folders, they approached immigration officials sitting behind tables to explain their situation in broken French or stilted English. Buses waited outside, ready to take them to the central city of Orleans or the southwestern city of Bordeaux. But many people said they did not want to leave the Paris region. «I want to stay here,» said Abakar, a 29-year-old from Sudan who did not give his second name. He said he was in Paris to follow a logistics course and had been promised a job in a supermarket. - 'Bordeaux is nice' - At one table, a woman official tried to convince another young man to try his luck in Bordeaux. «You know in France, there isn't just Paris. Bordeaux is nice, it's warmer than here,» she said. But he too was attending training in the capital region, and so she directed him to another table where a colleague was in charge of accommodation near Paris. Merci Daniel, a mother from Sudan, said she had sent her children to stay in a nearby shelter because there was «too much violence» inside the squat. But she did not want to leave the area as she was scared she would no longer see them if she did. An official found her a room at a hotel outside Paris for several days. Migrant and homeless charities have accused the authorities of seeking to remove the homeless from Paris and its outskirts before tourists arrive for the Olympics. «There are spaces in shelters near Paris, but clearly they want to move them away from the capital. Especially before the Olympics,» said Paul Alauzy, a representative from medical charity Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World). Some mayors in rural and small-town France have also become increasingly angry over the transfer of migrants from the capital to their communities. © Agence France-Presse

Witnesses at a US Senate hearing on Boeing drew a disturbing picture Wednesday of an aviation giant that blows off safety questions and sidelines critics as it chases faster production and bigger profits. «The attitude from Boeing from the highest level is just to push the defective parts, regardless of what it is,» Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour told lawmakers on Capitol Hill. Salehpour, who has worked at Boeing for 17 of his 40 years in aerospace, said he became a whistleblower after he was punished for raising safety questions about the top-selling 787 Dreamliner and 777. He testified that he was blackballed by company higher-ups and feared for his personal well-being after raising concerns about safety. He maintains that the Dreamliner could show premature signs of fatigue, resulting in a catastrophic accident because of excessively large gaps in the plane's assembly. He likened it to a paper clip that is bent repeatedly. «You do it once or twice, it doesn't break, but it breaks at some time,» said Salehpour, who has said the entire 787 fleet should be grounded for investigation. Boeing acknowledged imperfections, but said it was making progress. «We know we have more work to do and we are taking action across our company,» the company said after the hearing, pointing to an uptick in its «Speak Up» portal to field employee input. Boeing has pushed back against Salehpour's allegations about the 787, pointing to extensive testing that shows no signs of fatigue. It also said that it had addressed the gap issue during a period when it slowed production and suspended deliveries -- a process tightly overseen by the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA said in response to Salehpour's claims that the 787s currently flying are in compliance. The aircraft also received an endorsement Wednesday from United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby, who told CNBC he was «totally confident the 787 is a safe airplane.» Lawmakers expressed alarm at testimony about alleged widespread manufacturing and quality control problems throughout Boeing's fleet, as well as the overly deferential approach of the FAA, which one witness described as «captive» to Boeing. «This requires a full-blown investigation,» said Republican Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, calling for future hearings to hear from pilots, the airlines and other witnesses. Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, who chaired the hearing, said representatives of Boeing and the FAA were already scheduled to appear. - Going backwards? - The hearing comes as regulators escalate scrutiny of Boeing in the wake of a near-disastrous January 5 Alaska Airlines flight, in which a 737 MAX was forced to make an emergency landing after a fuselage panel blew out in mid-flight. The incident revived major questions around Boeing's safety practices that had initially arisen following two fatal crashes in 2018 and 2019, but which had subsided following a lengthy grounding of the 737 MAX. In late March, Boeing announced a leadership shakeup that included the retirement of Chief Executive Dave Calhoun at the end of 2024 and the replacement of Chair Larry Kellner with former Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf. In a recent message to shareholders, Mollenkopf pledged to «take the necessary steps to regain the trust lost in recent times.» «Boeing must commit to real and profound improvements and we will hold them accountable every step of the way,» the FAA said in a statement, reiterating the need for aviation employees to be able to speak up without fear of reprisal. The agency also pointed to a recent audit by an FAA advisory panel that found employee skepticism that safety complaints by workers would not result in retaliation. Former pilot Shawn Pruchnicki, now at Ohio State University, said a reporting culture was critical to improved safety, along with a chain of accountability all the way up to the CEO. Pruchnicki said despite promises he called «hollow,» there was no sign Boeing has reformed itself. «So it leaves one to wonder, have we gone backwards?» he asked. © Agence France-Presse  

Men waving BJP flags in Meerut’s Ghanta Ghar as UP readies for LS polls. Md Kamran notes the diminishing Muslim influence. Imran Masood, Iqra Hasan, and Mohibullah Nadvi are contesting, with Muslims urged to vote by Mufti Arshad Farooqui.

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk's tweet from January has caught the attention of the US, possibly paving the way for India to get a permanent seat at the UNSC. Musk said in his tweet that it's 'crazy' that India doesn't have a permanent UNSC seat. He also said that powerful nations are hesitant to give up their power.

The speaker has introduced a complex five-part plan requiring separate floor votes on Israel and Ukraine, as well as a stand-alone proposal to assuage far-right members who want to strengthen the U.S. southern border. Success is far from guaranteed.

The presenter is said to have a new lease of life after finding love with Russian masseur David Putman who is 20 years her junior. 

Samantha Davis, who was an actress in her own right, met her husband when she had an uncredited role in his 1988 film Willow. She had a brush with death in 2019 when she fell ill with sepsis.

Il est à la fois le surfeur le plus jeune et le plus âgé de l'histoire, à avoir remporté le titre de champion du monde de surf, dont cinq années consécutives, de 1994 à 1998. Kelly Slater, surnommé ET l'extraterrestre, décroche son premier titre mondial à 20 ans, son onzième et dernier titre à 39 ans. En trente ans de carrière, l'homme de tous les records signe 56 victoires d'étape. Mais saviez-vous que le «GOAT» du surf, le plus grand de tous les temps, est également artiste, entrepreneur, acteur dans la série Alerte à Malibu et créateur du Surf Ranch ?

Live updates from the 2024 campaign trail with the latest news on presidential candidates, polls, primaries and more.

In party-line votes, the Senate voted to dismiss two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas alleging he mismanaged an influx of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A U.S. Air Force leader in Niger made a whistleblower complaint to Congress raising alarm over the Biden administration’s reluctance to heed an eviction notice.