US-Präsident Donald Trump hat die konservative Kommentatorin Katie Zacharia zu seiner neuen Sprecherin ernannt. Er lobte sie am Freitag in seinem Onlinenetzwerk Truth Social als treue Anhängerin seiner Maga-Bewegung (Make America Great Again, Macht Amerika wieder großartig). Zacharia wird damit die Nachfolge von Karoline Leavitt antreten, die im August zurückgetreten war. Leavitt hatte dies damit […]
Read MoreHurricane Isaias’s outer bands were lashing the US Gulf Coast with heavy rain and strong winds Friday, with the category 3 storm triggering mandatory evacuations and poised to bring life-threatening storm surge when it makes landfall tonight. Isaias is the first hurricane of an Atlantic season that kicked off in June, held in check by […]
Read MoreA magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked Panama on Friday, unleashing panic in the high-rise capital city and causing buildings to collapse in the center of the country but produced no immediate reports of casualties. The shallow tremor was felt across the Central American nation of around 4.5 million people, according to the National Civil Protection System, […]
Read MoreStock markets climbed Friday after US President Donald Trump ruled out a strike on Iran before midterm elections, while announcing that Russian diesel would flow to global markets following talks with Moscow’s Vladimir Putin. Trump said Washington was holding “productive discussions” with Tehran after reports that the White House had asked the Pentagon to draw […]
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A Turkish court on Friday jailed two journalists pending trial for allegedly spreading misinformation over a sprawling investment fund scandal, while another two were granted conditional release, media reports said. Turkey has been grappling with the fallout from an investment fund scandal which erupted in mid-September, prompting an investigation into allegations of widespread market manipulation. The […]
Read MoreSaudi Arabia said on Friday that three people including a pilot were killed in attacks on Riyadh international airport the day before when Yemen’s Houthis claimed hits on the facility. Houthi media reported on Friday that Saudi attacks on Sanaa airport killed two people, while the civil defence agency in the Yemeni capital reported extinguishing […]
Read MoreA Paris court on Friday jailed a young Indian man to 20 years jail for leading a masculinist group that forced young girls, many of them minors, to perform sexual acts and in some cases tortured them. Prosecutors had sought a 30-year jail term for Rohan Rane, a 29-year-old who they described as a Nazi lover […]
Read MoreA magnitude-7.7 earthquake jolted Panama on Friday, setting off panic in the capital city and warnings of dangerous tsunami waves. USGS said the quake was detected at 1756 GMT with an epicenter 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the small town of Pitaloza Arriba in the south-center of Panama. It initially measured at magnitude 8. The […]
Read MoreDer Copilot der in Saudi-Arabien notgelandeten Flydubai-Maschine wollte nach Angaben der emiratischen Ermittler einen Selbstmordanschlag auf den Flughafen im israelischen Tel Aviv verüben. Der Mann aus dem Oman habe sich dabei die Anschläge vom 11. September 2001 in den USA zum Vorbild genommen, erklärte Generalstaatsanwalt Hamad Saif al-Schamsi am Freitag. Sein Ziel sei gewesen, so […]
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