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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the killing of Sunshine Stewart, a paddleboarder who was found dead in Maine earlier this month, police said Thursday. Police did not identify the suspect or provide details on what charges he is facing. Other details, such as a possible motive or whether the teen knew…
BEIJING/NEW DELHI: China on Thursday expressed its support for Russia’s initiative to revive the dormant Russia-India-China (RIC) troika.Russian news portal Izvestia on Thursday quoted Russia’s deputy foreign minister Andrei Rudenko as saying that Moscow expects the resumption of the RIC format and is negotiating on this issue with Beijing and New Delhi. ‘Time For Revival…’:…
MADRID (AP) — An uncontrolled wildfire burned outside Madrid on Thursday, sending a giant cloud of smoke over the Spanish capital. The fire broke out in the town of Mentrida in central Spain’s Castile-La Mancha region about 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of the capital. Local authorities urged residents to stay home and close their…
Some U.S. politicians on opposite ends of the political spectrum this week denounced the killing last week of a Palestinian-American man from Florida in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Family members and Palestinian officials said 20-year-old Sayfollah Musallet was beaten to death by illegal Israeli settlers. The U.S. ambassador to Israel, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, demanded…
NEW DELHI: The Indian Army will soon begin inducting two regiments of the Akash Prime surface-to-air missiles designed for air defence in high-altitude areas along the frontier with China, with the force testing the new weapon system in Ladakh twice on Wednesday.The Akash Prime missiles successfully destroyed two high-speed unmanned aerial targets at an altitude…
BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes that shook southern Syria this week killed hundreds of people, including civilians, and drew in an array of local and international players, harking back to the dynamics of the country’s yearslong civil war. The violence underscored the difficulties facing the Syrian new government struggling to consolidate control over the country, months……
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the city’s de facto central bank, said it had no plans to establish a “bad bank” to absorb troubled debt in the financial system, saying that the local banking sector remained healthy and profitable. “Overall, banks in Hong Kong maintain a healthy balance sheet; their credit risk is manageable…
Air travelers may soon see another change when passing through security checkpoints at airports, with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggesting there may be changes to current TSA restrictions on liquids in carry-on bags. The potential change in policies around carrying liquids on flights comes after Noem on July 8 said passengers at airports no…
The U.S. Navy’s Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group entered the South China Sea on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Chinese reconnaissance flights as Taiwan conducts annual counter-invasion drills. USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, cruiser USS Princeton (CG-59) and destroyer USS Sterett (DDG-104) transited the Malacca Strait on Wednesday local time accompanied by fleet…
One elderly man had been shot in the head in his living room. Another in his bedroom. The body of a woman lay in the street. After days of bloodshed in Syria’s Druze city of Sweida, survivors emerged on Thursday to collect and bury the scores of dead found across the city. Source link