Five people have been killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in a North Carolina neighbourhood. The suspect eluded officers for hours on Thursday night, before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said. An off-duty police officer was among those killed by the suspect in the North Carolina capital of Raleigh... .
Iranian security forces stepped up their crackdown on Kurdish regions of the country overnight, deploying militia troops, as authorities pursued their deadly suppression of nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in police custody. ...The StandardChannel. IOSAndroid. IOS Android. More>> ... Shops are closed ... (Reuters). .
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked Ukraine’s Defenders Day on Friday, promising a win against Russia in the ongoing war since February ... To all who won then and to everyone who will definitely win now,” Zelenskyy said on Telegram ... .
NATO is holding its exercise, dubbed “SteadfastNoon,” next week ... They involve fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but do not involve any live bombs ... ....
In never-before-seen footage from January 6, 2021, obtained by CNN, House SpeakerNancy Pelosi says she’d punch then-President Donald Trump if he made good on his threat to come to the US Capitol with his supporters ... “I hope he comes. I’m going to punch him out,” Pelosi fumes. “I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds ... .
North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, the latest in a series of launches by the nuclear-armed country amid heightened tensions ... Some analysts do not expect any tests before neighbouring China concludes a congress of its ruling Communist Party, which begins on Sunday ... .
BEIJING (AP) — When Xi Jinping came to power in 2012, it wasn’t clear what kind of leader he would be ... Xi is all but certain to be given a third five-year term as party leader at the end of a major party congress that opens Sunday — a break with an unofficial two-term limit that other recent leaders had followed ... “He’s really anti-U.S ... ___ ... .
WILMINGTON, Del.--Elon Musk is being investigated by federal authorities over his conduct in his $44 billion takeover deal for Twitter Inc, the social media company said in a court filing released on Thursday ... In late September, Musk’s attorneys had provided a “privilege log” identifying documents to be withheld, Twitter said ... Justice Department ... .
LONDON (Reuters) — British Prime MinisterLiz Truss fired her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng on Friday and scrapped parts of their economic package in a desperate bid to stay in power and survive the market and political turmoil gripping the country ... “We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,” she said. .
Two environmental groups have sued French energy company TotalEnergies for "aiding and abetting war crimes" in Ukraine. The complaint was filed by Razom We Stand and DarwinClimaxCoalition Thursday with the anti-terror prosecutor's office in Paris... The energy company has denied the accusations made by the climate activists ... He added ... .
Turkish PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdoğan once again showed his annoyance with the American base in Alexandroupolis and the militarization of the islands in his statements to journalists, upon his return from Kazakhstan. When asked about Alexandroupolis and "US-backed equipment on Lesbos and other Aegean islands," Erdoğan replied ... READ MORE ... Tags ... 0. 0 ... .
Ukraine's armed forces have liberated more than 600 settlements from the Russian occupation in the past month, including 75 in the highly strategic Kherson region, Ukraine's Ministry for Reintegration of the Temporary Occupied Territories said ... The ministry said 43 settlements were liberated in the Donetsk region and seven in the Luhansk region ... .