La Defense, the French capital’s business district, seen behind the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (JOEL SAGET) French business leaders have been pitched into fresh uncertainty by snap elections called by President Emmanuel Macron that risk strengthening the far right. Federations are treading lightly with their public comments, aware that they could be sitting across […]
“I don’t want my child to die,” the words left my quivering lips during a recent meeting at my son’s school. I eventually left that meeting in tears. My son will attend high school in the fall, and while that may be a joyous transition for some, I am afraid. I am afraid because he […]
Editor’s note: This is the fifth in a series of profiles of potential running mates for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the 2024 Republican Party ticket The race to determine who will be Donald Trump’s running mate this November took a major step forward last week with the acceleration of vetting multiple potential candidates, but […]
Donald Trump, former Covid-19 vaccine booster, is now the nation’s most high-profile critic of immunization mandates. The former president has on the campaign trail promised to strip funding from schools with vaccine requirements and lambasted independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as a “fake” anti-vaxxer, while obscuring his role in speeding the development of the […]
By Nyasha Chingono LIVINGSTONE, Zambia (Reuters) – Southern African countries home to the largest elephant population in the world fear a rise in animal deaths in the coming months as food and water sources dwindle following a severe drought. The region experienced an extended hot, dry spell during its 2023/24 rainy season, attributed to El […]
A woman woman who made threats against a Kentucky prosecutor has been sentenced to three years and three months in federal prison. Tara K. Thomas, 32, of Tompkinsville, pleaded guilty to stalking and mailing harassing communications. The victim in the case was Kori Bumgarner, commonwealth’s attorney for Warren County. Bumgarner was an assistant prosecutor in […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster. Waterways could be at risk of contamination from disaster debris and the rotting corpses of those that remain in the rubble, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered […]
Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster. Waterways could be at risk of contamination from disaster debris and the rotting corpses of those that remain in the rubble, a United Nations official said on Tuesday. A mass of boulders, earth and splintered […]
As Kenya struggles with rising violent crime, BBC Africa Eye follows one former criminal as he tries to persuade men to turn in their illegal firearms, one gun at a time. “The worst thing I ever did was to kill. I killed a man,” the young man says after agreeing to be filmed on condition […]
Officials at a Minneapolis mosque fear it will be targeted again, two days after one of its members was injured in an alleged hit-and-run attack in the parking lot. The attack was the latest in a string of incidents — from mosque burnings to Muslims being attacked at their mosques with pepper spray or, in […]
NEW IBERIA, La. (KLFY)– A woman’s worst fear came true on a day to celebrate her: Mother’s Day. Her son’s gift to her now sits in his memorial. This New Iberia mother is speaking out after her oldest child was murdered. One of the suspects is still on the run. Daiquan Branch, 21, was shot […]
OpenAI’s apparent homage to the movie Her featuring the voice likeness of Scarlett Johansson is fuelling a backlash against artificial intelligence across Hollywood, executives told Reuters. Johansson’s accusation that the ChatGPT-maker copied her performance in the Spike Jonze-directed feature film, after failing to strike an agreement, rekindled the creative class’s anxiety about the existential threat […]