Iran's state television on Saturday identified a man it said was behind a recent explosion and power outage at its main Natanz nuclear plant. "Reza Karimi, the perpetrator of this sabotage... has been identified" by Iran's intelligence ministry, state TV said ... The card listed his age as 43 ... Lahav Harkov contributed to this report. .
Queen Elizabeth will bid a final farewell to Prince Philip, her husband of more than seven decades, at a ceremonial funeral on Saturday, with the nation set to hold a minute's silence to mark the passing of a pivotal figure in the British monarchy...Prince Charles, heir to the throne, and Philip's other three children will walk behind in procession ... .
Russia's FSB security service briefly detained a Ukrainian diplomat in St Petersburg, Ukraine's foreign ministry said on Saturday, in the latest flare-up of tensions between the neighboring countries ...Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday pressed for peace negotiations ... .
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS 04/17/2021 08.06 AM EDT. INDIANAPOLIS — The former employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis was interviewed by FBI agents last year, after his mother called police to say that her son might commit “suicide by cop,” the bureau said Friday ... He said he did not know if Hole owned the gun legally ... .
Four Sikhs, including three women, were among eight people who were killed in a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in the US state of Indiana staffed by a large number of Indian-American employees, shocking the community leaders who appealed to PresidentJoe Biden to tackle the growing hate crimes and gun violence in the country ... Advertisement. .
Andreas von Brandt, the European Union ambassador in Afghanistan, on Saturday urged the Taliban to take the upcoming UN-led conference on Afghanistan seriously and take the advantage of the historic opportunity if the group wants to have cooperation of the international community ...The Turkey conference on Afghanistan is scheduled on April 24 ... .
Myanmar's military announced it had pardoned and released more than 23,000 prisoners to mark the new year holiday. However, it is not clear whether they included pro-democracy activists who were detained in protests after the military coup in February ... He also reduced sentences for others ... .
‘GOLDILOCKS CONDITIONS’. The volatility index fell to its lowest in 14 months amid optimism that the Fed would keep interest rates low until inflation starts to increase. Reuters ... Nine of the 11 S&P; sub-sectors rose. The energy and information technology indices were the exceptions ... 12 ... .
RAMALLAH, April 17 -- The Israeli police on Saturday arrested three Palestinian electoral candidates attempting to hold a news briefing in East Jerusalem, Palestinian sources said ... "The PLO and the Palestinian leadership will never accept that the elections are only held in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip without East Jerusalem," he said ... 31 ... .
By Zen Soo and Alice Fung. The Associated Press. HONG KONG — Sophia is a robot of many talents — she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. In March, she caused a stir in the art world when a digital work she created as part of a collaboration was sold at an auction for $688,888 in the form of a non-fungible token (NFT) ... After the dial ... Ask Amy.
Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Mansour al-Shahatit was unable to recognise his mother and brothers following his release from an Israeli prison after 17 years. He was in a deplorable state after being freed on April 8, suffering from memory loss as a result of torture and solitary confinement for many years in Israeli jails ...Struggle for freedom ... .