(Bloomberg) — Rishi Sunak’s chances of avoiding a landslide defeat in the UK general election dwindled further as his governing Conservative Party struggled to contain revelations that several of the prime minister’s close aides placed bets on the date of the vote. Most Read from Bloomberg A report in the Sunday Times that a senior […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ appointees on Wednesday gave final approval to an agreement that buries the hatchet between Disney and the governing district for Walt Disney World, which the Florida governor took over after the company two years ago publicly opposed a state law critics dubbed “Don’t Say Gay.” The five DeSantis-appointed […]
Fierce fighting in Sudan’s besieged city of El Fasher has become so intense that Mohamed Haroon Abdallah has been unable to bury his brother. He was injured last week in an attack on the city in the western region of Darfur and died on Monday. “I had to abandon my brother’s body on my way […]
FILE – This combination of photos shows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaking on July 17, 2023, in Arlington, Va., left, and former President Donald Trump speaking in Bedminster, N.J., June 13, 2023. Trump met privately with DeSantis over the weekend, according to two people familiar with the discussion, marking a detente between the former rivals […]
Asian elephants bury their calves with their legs poking out of the ground, researchers have observed. The calves were 1 year old or less and were transported to premade burials of sorts — irrigation drains on tea estates in India — by herd members, before being placed in holes and covered in soil. In a […]
Blizzard conditions descended on the mountains of California’s Sierra Nevada Thursday, with up to 12 feet of snow and roaring winds up to 100 miles per hour forecast for the region through Sunday. The National Weather Service, which issued a rare blizzard warning for the Sierra Nevada, urged residents to “AVOID travel” at elevations above […]
Blizzard conditions descended on California’s Sierra Nevada mountains Thursday, with up to 12 feet of snow and roaring winds up to 100 miles per hour forecast for the region through Sunday. The National Weather Service, which issued a rare blizzard warning for the Sierra Nevadas, urged residents to “AVOID travel” at elevations above 2,000 feet […]
Russian authorities are threatening to bury Alexei Navalny on the grounds of the Arctic prison colony where he died unless his family agrees to a closed funeral, the opposition leader’s team said Friday. The 47-year-old Kremlin critic died last week after spending more than three years behind bars, prompting outrage and condemnation from Western leaders […]
An ally of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny said that Russian authorities have given his mother a deadline to agree to forgo a public funeral or else they will bury him on prison grounds. Lyudmila Navalnaya was given three hours to accept a proposal for a private funeral outside the public eye, Mr Navalny’s close […]
Zoey Williams soared to new heights in the world of aviation when she became Air Canada’s first Black female pilot to fly a Boeing 777. When the 27-year-old began working for the Canadian airlines, she was the first Black female pilot to join the team. A few months ago recently made history again within the organization as […]
Alexei Navalny’s mother released a video on Tuesday calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to “let me finally see my son” and to hand over his body “so that I can bury him humanely.” Lyudmila Navalnaya issued the plea while speaking outside a penal colony in Kharp in northern Russia, where prison officials say Navalny […]
Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, emphasises that the best guarantee of security and peace for the whole world is the destruction of the Russian criminal terrorist regime. Source: Danilov on Facebook Quote: “Only systematic, consistent, and methodical destruction of Putin’s fascist entity is the best guarantee of security for Ukraine […]