New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, seemed to acknowledge Thursday that she had failed the bar exam, but argued she was accurate in presenting herself as a lawyer. Appointed by US President Donald Trump, Zacharia has described herself as a lawyer during television appearances and on social media, […]
Read MoreNach stundenlanger, heftiger Diskussion haben die Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU ihre Verhandlungen über den nächsten Sieben-Jahre-Haushalt der EU ohne Ergebnis vertagt. Bei der “kontroversen” Debatte am Donnerstag in Brüssel seien die unterschiedlichen Positionen aufeinandergetroffen, verlautete aus deutschen Regierungskreisen. Am Rande des Treffens erzielten Deutschland und Frankreich allerdings eine vorläufige Einigung, die das sogenannte Verbrenner-Aus […]
Read MoreDer Bundestag hat eine deutliche Erhöhung der Tabaksteuer beschlossen. Das Parlamentsplenum stimmte am späten Donnerstagabend mit den Stimmen der Koalitionsfraktionen für eine entsprechende Gesetzesänderung. Durch sie soll sich der Durchschnittspreis für eine Schachtel mit 20 Zigaretten bis zum Jahr 2030 um fast vier Euro auf 11,78 Euro verteuern. Bundesfinanzminister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) erhofft sich dadurch […]
Read MoreBritish filmmaker Mike Leigh told AFP Thursday he regretted he could not make “another hundred films” because of ill health, as he attended the London premiere of his prize-winning latest work. Leigh, 83, has myositis, an autoimmune disease that affects the muscles, and now uses a walking stick.”It’s only because I have a medical condition that […]
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Os Estados Unidos vão destinar mais de 300 milhões de dólares (R$ 1,5 bilhão) para contribuir com a vigilância de infraestruturas, modernizar as forças de segurança e instalar conexões a cabo na bacia do Caribe, informou o vice-secretário de Estado americano, Christopher Landau, nesta quinta-feira (15).”Tenho o prazer de anunciar 37 milhões de dólares (R$ […]
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Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s education spending. The main demonstration by thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones and other projectiles at the […]
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The Houthis launched a deadly missile attack Thursday on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the long-running war. The attack hit command centres located inside the Al-Maashiq presidential compound used by government forces and the Saudi-led military coalition that […]
Read MoreThe roof of a school collapsed in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing 32 students mostly younger than 14, and a teacher, officials said, blaming the accident on dilapidated infrastructure. Twenty more students were taken to hospital as residents and rescuers scrambled to pull children from under the rubble. Others in the densely […]
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled plans to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base mass shooter, reversing a widely condemned move by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The plan to make Nidal Hasan’s execution public was opposed at home and abroad, with US Democratic and Republican politicians, the Catholic Church and […]
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