New York police released a new security camera picture Thursday of the man believed to have shot a top health insurance executive at close range in a brazen daylight murder outside a Manhattan hotel.The latest picture, in which the suspect’s face is uncovered and he is smiling or laughing, indicated progress in the manhunt after …
Air strikes targeted a bridge on the highway linking the Syrian cities of Homs and Hama, a war monitor said Friday, as government forces scramble to secure Homs after Islamist-led rebels captured Hama and commercial hub Aleppo.”Fighter jets executed several airstrikes, targeting Al-Rastan bridge on (the) Homs-Hama highway… as well as attacking positions around the …
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President Emmanuel Macron on Friday was to hold talks with political factions as he seeks to name a new prime minister and find a way out of France’s political crisis.Macron adopted a defiant tone in an address to the nation late Thursday, 24 hours after Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s government was ousted in a historic …
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said he hoped Ukraine’s allies took “seriously” Moscow’s recent use of a hypersonic missile in the conflict there, and warned that Russia was ready to use “any means” to defend itself.The United States and its allies “must understand that we would be ready to use any means not …
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South Korea’s ruling party chief demanded Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol stand down over his martial law attempt, warning he posed a great danger to the country.The stunning comments from Han Dong-hoon, the head of Yoon’s People Power Party, almost guarantees enough lawmakers will vote to impeach the president on Saturday.Han’s comments were a …
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The Bahamas on Thursday said it had rejected a proposal from the incoming Trump administration to receive deported migrants, with Mexico and Panama also stressing they would only take back their own citizens.Donald Trump’s team has drawn up a list of countries to which it wants to deport undocumented migrants when their home countries refuse to …
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Thousands of people rallied across Georgia on Thursday for a second week of pro-EU protests, after the prime minister threatened to “eradicate” the country’s “liberal-fascist” opposition.Tbilisi has been rocked by turmoil since the governing Georgian Dream party, which critics accuse of creeping authoritarianism and leading the country back towards Russia, claimed victory in a disputed …
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Islamist-led rebels captured the central Syrian city of Hama on Thursday in a new blow to President Bashar al-Assad’s forces days after they lost the country’s commercial hub Aleppo.The rebels led by Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched their offensive little more than a week ago, just as a ceasefire in neighbouring Lebanon took hold …
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President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday vowed to name a new prime minister in the coming days to prevent France from sliding deeper into political turmoil, rejecting growing pressure from the opposition to resign.Macron adopted a defiant tone in an address to the nation, seeking to limit an escalating political crisis after Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s …
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A powerful earthquake that struck off the coast of California sparked a brief tsunami warning on Thursday, with residents warned to flee to higher ground before the alert was cancelled.Seismologists at the US Geological Survey said the shallow 7.0 magnitude tremor had hit around 68 kilometers (42 miles) from the coastal town of Ferndale mid-morning, …
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