‘Triple spending’: Zimbabweans bear cost of changing to new ZiG currency Businesses, transport, government services reject old notes despite the unavailability of new bills until end of month. 04/18/2024 - 8:51 pm | View Link
Lefties losing it: Joe Biden telling ‘bizarre stories’ and ‘debunked lies’ Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi says President Joe Biden is a poor man who is "dazed and confused" and who produces "bizarre stories and debunked lies". "We need to speak about Joe," Ms Panahi ... 04/18/2024 - 2:42 pm | View Link
Man granted parole for his role in the 2001 stabbing deaths of 2 married Dartmouth professors More than two decades after he pleaded guilty to his role in the 2001 murders of two beloved Dartmouth College professors, James Parker was granted parole Thursday after telling a state panel he now ... 04/18/2024 - 11:49 am | View Link
Truth-telling inquiry highlights government inaction after past denial of land for Aboriginal veterans Victoria's First Nations truth-telling inquiry has pressed the state government about the injustices faced by Aboriginal soldiers who served their country but were denied land on their return. 04/18/2024 - 10:37 am | View Link
TikTok-star bishop stabbed during service in Australia says he’s already forgiven suspected teen ‘terrorist’ The TikTok-famous bishop who was brutally stabbed while giving a sermon in Australia on Thursday says he has already forgiven his teen attacker. 04/18/2024 - 12:42 am | View Link
The U. S. blocked on Thursday a draft resolution that would have allowed the United Nations General Assembly to vote on allowing a Palestinian state to become a full member state of the U. N. The move has triggered backlash from other states and pro-Palestinian groups, as global divisions continue to sharpen over Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Apple Inc. said that it removed Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp and Threads from its China apps store after an order from the country’s internet regulator, which said the services pose risks to the country’s security.
The order comes on the heels of a cleanup program Chinese regulators initiated in 2023 that was expected to remove many defunct or unregistered apps from domestic iOS and Android stores.
Israel launched a retaliatory strike against a site in Iran late Thursday night (early Friday morning local time), U. S. officials confirmed to several media outlets, though an Iranian official has downplayed the attack as a “failed and humiliating” drone strike.
ABC News, CBS News, NPR, and others have cited unnamed U.
New York police removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on Thursday and arrested more than 100 demonstrators, including the daughter of a prominent Minnesota congresswoman.
Several students involved in the protest said they also were suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of Democratic U.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina formally requested on Thursday to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment.
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The request came as NATO’s Deputy General Secretary Mircea Geoana held talks in Brussels on regional security challenges with visiting Argentine Defense Minister Luis Petri.
Geoana said he welcomed Argentina’s bid to become an accredited partner in the alliance—a valued role short of “ally” for nations that are not in NATO’s geographical area and not required to take part in collective military actions.
A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.
The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022.