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Honda Reportedly Abandoning the Worst Name in Cars
Honda calls this car the e:Ny1 in Europe and China, a name that is near-impossible to both type and pronounce.
2 min read - LifestyleTasting Table
The Cultural Tradition Behind Thailand's Sabai Sabai Drink
In Thailand the phrase "sabai sabai" refers to a state of total relaxation, like you feel when on vacation. This cocktail embodies that attitude to a T.
2 min read - BusinessAssociated Press
Broadband internet services are disrupted in most parts of Nepal
Broadband internet was disrupted in many parts of Nepal on Thursday as Indian vendors from whom most Nepali private operators source the bandwidth stopped providing the services because of payment defaults. Private internet service providers in Nepal issued notices saying their services were either disrupted or connections were slow. The state-run Nepal Telecom was still continuing to provide internet services.
1 min read - WorldBBC
Kenya appoints first woman air force head
Maj Gen Fatuma Ahmed becomes the first woman to lead any of Kenya's military services.
2 min read - WorldINSIDER
Ukraine says it's cracking down on satellite images of its territory in case they give away secrets to Russia
Satellite companies are taking images of Ukrainian territory every day, a defense official said, which risks them being used by Russia against it.
2 min read - WorldSemafor
Pressure piles on Kenya’s president as floods wreak havoc
Kenya's president faces mounting criticism over his handling of the country’s worst floods in three decades, even as his government steps up its response to the devastation and subsequent political fallout.
4 min read - Worlddpa international
German foreign minister's Pacific trip begins in Australia
Germany's foreign minister arrived on Thursday evening in Australia for a trip that will also take her to New Zealand and Fiji. Annalena Baerbock landed in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, after a flight of almost 19 hours that was interrupted only by a refuelling stop in Bali. She flew on an A350 German government aircraft named Konrad Adenauer, a former German chancellor. Her flight was being closely watched. In August of last year, Baerbock's same three-nation trip had to be abandone
1 min read - WorldAssociated Press
British police officer pleads guilty to terror charges for showing support for Hamas on WhatsApp
A British police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to terror charges for showing support on social media for Hamas, which is designated a terror group and banned in the U.K. West Yorkshire constable Mohammed Adil admitted sharing two images on WhatsApp supporting the group three weeks after Hamas and other Palestinian militants stormed into Israel on Oct. 7 and killed about 1,200 people and seized some 250 hostages. Adil, 26, pleaded guilty in Westminster Magistrates’ Court to two counts of publ
1 min read - Worlddpa international
Germany's Scholz phones Netanyahu to speak about hostages, ceasefire
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in yet another discussion with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, spoke on the phone about efforts to release all the hostages and obtain a ceasefire. The two also spoke about further improvements to humanitarian aid for the people in the Gaza, German deputy spokesman Wolfgang Büchner said on Thursday. Additional details were not disclosed. As part of mediation efforts in Cairo, the Palestinian Islamist Hamas, which abducted some 250 people from Israel on O
2 min read - Worlddpa international
Report: Polish police arrest suspect, 16, in Warsaw synagogue attack
Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to make a statement. On Wednesday, the Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on
1 min read - WorldBBC
Iran charges journalists after BBC report on teen protester's death
Iran’s judiciary rejects as “fake” a BBC report that alleges security forces killed Nika Shakarami.
3 min read - Worlddpa international
Gaza war rages on as efforts to reach a ceasefire deal continue
Israeli fighter jets and artillery hit central Gaza on Thursday, the army said, as efforts to reach a new deal between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas group continue. Israeli Air Force (IAF) "fighter jets struck armed terrorists, terrorist infrastructure, and operational tunnel shafts," the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Telegram. "The IDF continues to operate in the central Gaza Strip," it added. The IDF said it launched its attack after "a number of launches" on Wednesday from c
2 min read - Worlddpa international
Estonian minister blames Russia for GPS interference over Baltic
Estonia's Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna laid the blame for the jamming of GPS signals over the Baltic squarely with Russia on Thursday, following weeks of interference that has disrupted air travel in the region. Estonia has been seeing an increase in targeted disruptions to GPS satellite navigation recently. The authorities of the Baltic Sea state say the GPS signal interference is being transmitted from Russian's territory, and the problem has worsened since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in F
1 min read - Worlddpa international
France's Macron to make rearranged state visit to Germany in May
French President Emmanuel Macron will make an official state visit to Germany in late May, Germany's presidential office said Thursday, after a planned trip in July was cancelled at short notice. Macron and his wife Brigitte are set to arrive in Berlin on May 26 and will be welcomed with full military honours by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender in front of Bellevue Palace. The state visit - the first by a French president to Germany since Jacques Chirac visi
1 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Double land mine blasts kill one person and wound at least 18 in Pakistan’s southwest
Double land mine blasts killed one person and wounded at least 18 on Thursday in Pakistan’s southwest, a police officer said. The first mine exploded when a truck was passing through a valley in coal-rich Duki district in Baluchistan province. The second detonated when counter-terrorism officials and civilians were examining the initial blast site, said district police officer Asif Haleem.
1 min read - Businessdpa international
OECD now sees minimal 2024 growth for Germany
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has yet again revised its forecast for economic growth in Germany downwards and now sees only miniscule growth of 0.2% for this year. The group, which published its economic outlook in Paris on Thursday, had already lowered its growth forecast for Germany in an interim report in February to 0.3% from a forecast of 0.6% in November. For 2025, the OECD expects the German economy to gain momentum and grow by 1.1%. The organization cit
2 min read - WorldAFP
Compilation of old disaster clips unrelated to recent earthquake in Taiwan on April 22, 2024
Two weeks after a massive deadly earthquake, Taiwan was rocked by more quakes on the night of April 22, 2024, causing buildings to sway and some to collapse. A viral video posted on Facebook claims to show the most recent of these recent seismic events. However, this is misleading: the footage is a compilation of several older clips from earthquakes in Japan and Taiwan, as well as demolition works in China.
4 min read - Businessdpa international
Irish budget airline Ryanair April passengers up 8% year on year
Irish budget airline operator Ryanair Holdings reported guests of 17.3 million for the month of April, 2024, compared to 16.0 million, a year ago, an increase of 8%. Load factor was 92% compared to 94%, prior year, down 2 percentage points. The airline operated over 98,400 flights in April. Almost 700 flights were cancelled due to Israel/Gaza conflict and over 340 flights cancelled due to the French ATC strike. For the rolling period, guests were 185.0 million, an increase of 9% from prior year.
1 min read - WorldAssociated Press
EU announces 1 billion euros in aid for Lebanon amid a surge in irregular migration
The European Union announced Thursday an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to boost border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus and Italy. It comes against a backdrop of increasing hostility toward Syrian refugees in Lebanon and a major surge in irregular migration of Syrian refugees from Lebanon to Cyprus.
5 min read - Worlddpa international
Survey finds about 20% of Germans worry about climate change daily
Around one in five people in Germany worry about climate change every day, a survey by the auditing firm PwC has revealed. According to the survey, 19.8% of Germans said climate change worried them on a daily basis. Internationally, about 28% of those surveyed felt the same. PwC surveyed around 20,000 people twice a year in 31 countries across Europe, Asia, North and South America and Africa. Of those surveyed in Germany, 60% said climate change worried them but they did not think about it regul
2 min read - BusinessJust Style
In data: Nike, Uniqlo, Adidas among China consumer favourites
International sportswear brands are winning over consumers in China, according to new research from GlobalData.
2 min read - Worlddpa international
Number of births in Germany at lowest level since 2013
The number of births and weddings in Germany fell to the lowest level in years in 2023, according to preliminary figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Around 693,000 children were born in Germany last year, the lowest level since 2013, according to the figures. The number fell by 6.2% compared to the previous year, when 738,819 births were counted. In eastern Germany, the number of births in 2023 fell by 9.2% compared to the previous year, from 86,227 to around 78,300, a much sharper decl
2 min read - WorldINSIDER
Photos show Russia flaunting its war spoils, including a Howitzer, Leopard 2, Bradley, and other modern weapons from over a dozen NATO countries
Russia on Wednesday displayed more than 30 captured vehicles from the war, showcasing the sheer diversity of the weapons used by Ukraine.
10 min read - BusinessJust Auto
Tesla signs mapping deal with Baidu in China
Deal followed last week’s visit to China by Tesla’s main shareholder and CEO Elon Musk
2 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Death toll jumps to at least 48 as a search continues in southern China highway collapse
The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area. One side of the four-lane highway in the city of Meizhou gave way about 2 a.m. on Wednesday after a month of heavy rains in Guangdong province. Twenty-three vehicles fell down a steep slope, some sending up flames as they caught fire.
2 min read - WorldAFP
Indonesian constitutional court did not 'ban presidential challengers from running for top job'
Indonesia's constitutional court shot down challenges to Prabowo Subianto's victory in the country's presidential election but did not ban his poll rivals from ever running for president again, contrary to claims made in an edited video viewed hundreds of thousands of times on social media. Live footage of the constitutional court's decision shows judges did not ban Prabowo's rivals and the court's written decisions also make no mention of a purported ban.
3 min read - USWFLA
Spotty late-day rain develops
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – We’re already feeling some extra humidity this morning, and temperatures climb quickly. Highs reach the upper 80s to low 90s with a mix of sun and clouds this afternoon. Spotty rain develops this afternoon and the showers push toward the Gulf of Mexico around sunset. Overall, the rain chance is 30%, […]
1 min read - WorldAssociated Press
South Korea's parliament approves independent investigation of the devastating 2022 Halloween crush
South Korea’s parliament on Thursday approved special legislation mandating a new, independent investigation into the 2022 Halloween crush in Seoul that killed 159 people. The single-chamber National Assembly passed the bill by a 256-0 vote. It will become law after it is signed by conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol and promulgated by his government agency — steps that are considered formalities because the president and his ruling party already agreed on the legislation.
3 min read - WorldReuters
Analysis-Spain PM Sanchez's political gambles face litmus test in Catalan election
Crunch elections in Catalonia next week will test the wisdom of the latest political gambles by Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who aims to use the vote to buoy his power nationally but risks inadvertently awakening a dormant Catalan separatism. Sanchez aims to wrest control of the wealthy region in the May 12 vote from separatists who wield outsized influence over Spanish politics. It may also revive Catalan separatism seven years after the issue set off Spain's worst political crisis i
5 min read - WorldINSIDER
Russia is displaying its war 'trophies' — an array of captured Western hardware like Abrams and Leopard tanks — saying 'victory is inevitable'
Russia is showing off more than 30 captured NATO vehicles as it seeks to blame the treaty organization for the Ukraine war.
3 min read - BusinessReuters
S.Korea factory activity shrinks in April, but optimism about outlook ticks up
South Korea's factory activity contracted again in April, but manufacturers' optimism climbed to the highest level in nearly two years as output and orders managed to post marginal growth, a private-sector survey showed on Thursday. The purchasing managers index (PMI) for manufacturers in Asia's fourth-largest economy, compiled by S&P Global, fell to 49.4 in April, from 49.8 in March, on a seasonally adjusted basis. "While output and new orders returned to fractional growth territory, the head
2 min read - LifestyleBillboard
Slightly Stoopid Announce Lineup for 2024 Closer to the Sun Event
Support artists for Dec. 11 to 15 Mexico event include Stick Figure, Sublime and Cypress Hill.
1 min read - WorldBBC
Joshlin Smith: A six-year-old's disappearance spreads fear in South Africa's Saldhana Bay
Joshlin Smith has still not been found after going missing from a South African town in February.
7 min read - WorldAFP
Ten dead, 21 missing after heavy rains in Brazil
At least 10 people have died in floods caused by torrential rains in Brazil's south, authorities said Wednesday, as rescuers searched for nearly two dozen individuals reported missing.Leite said work was continuing to locate the missing even as more heavy rains were forecast.
3 min read - USWGN Chicago
Jones College Prep students stage sit-in supporting local college Pro-Palestinian demonstrators
CHICAGO — Demonstrations over the Israeli war in Gaza have now spread beyond college campuses in Chicago, with Chicago Public School students staging a sit-in Wednesday at Jones College Prep High School where they demanded a ceasefire in the ongoing conflict. Students at Jones College Prep staged the sit-in for 30 minutes mid-afternoon before dozens […]
1 min read - Worlddpa international
Blinken tells Hamas time for 'haggling' over truce deal has ended
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in Israel for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders, expressed his determination to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a deal that would see more hostages held by Hamas released. "Israel has made very important compromises in the proposal that’s on the table," Blinken said after meeting Netanyahu. "Hamas has to decide whether it will take this deal and actually advance the situation for the people that it purports to ca
4 min read - Worlddpa international
Colombia to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro announced on Wednesday the cutting of diplomatic relations with Israel due to the "genocidal" government in power there. "If Palestine dies, humanity dies, and we will not let it die," the left-wing politician said in front of thousands of people in the Plaza de Bolívar in Colombia's capital Bogotá, where a large International Workers' Day rally was being held. Diplomatic ties will be cut with Israel on Thursday, he said. Petro has criticized Israel several tim
1 min read - Worlddpa international
Zelensky sacks senior intel officer amid corruption allegations
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ilya Vityuk, a high-ranking official in the SBU intelligence service, amid allegations of corruption. The decree was published on the Ukrainian president's website on Wednesday without giving a reason. Vityuk was head of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) cybersecurity department. Ukrainian media had previously published investigations in which it was reported that Vityuk's wife bought a luxury flat in the centre of Kiev. Vityuk had alrea
1 min read - WorldThe Guardian
Colombian president says government will sever Israel ties over Gaza ‘genocide’
Gustavo Petro tells May Day rally ‘if Palestine dies, humanity dies’, as Israeli foreign minister accuses president of antisemitism
2 min read - USUSA TODAY
Dallas to Tokyo flight grounded after airline said pilot drank too much
A Japan Airlines flight from Dallas to Tokyo was reportedly grounded after the pilot drank too much before the plane was scheduled to take off.
1 min read - WorldNBC News
A surprise arrest and a corruption scandal hint at splits in Putin's inner circle
A corruption scandal centered on allegations against Russia’s deputy defense minister has drawn surprise and speculation from close observers of the country’s elite.
5 min read - Worlddpa international
Thousands turn out in Berlin and Hamburg for May 1 demos
Thousands of people took part in left-wing demonstrations to mark International Workers' Day, or Labour Day, in Berlin, Hamburg and other German cities on Wednesday. The traditional rallies by workers and activists were held this year amid the backdrop of the tensions surrounding the war in Gaza. Germany has banned or restricted pro-Palestinian demonstrations over the past seven months, often citing fears they could lead to incitement to hatred and anti-Semitic statements. Police said a demonstr
2 min read - USMilitary.com
Air Force Starts to Fly Some Ospreys Again Following Crash that Killed 8 Airmen in Japan
The Air Force is the last among the services to return its Ospreys to the air following the Nov. 29 crash off the coast of Japan that killed eight airmen and triggered a military-wide grounding.
3 min read - USWBRE
PSP: Car ignites on fire due to dry leaves
CHESTNUT HILL TWP., MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — State police report a car ignited on fire due to dry leaves near the exhaust. State police report a car went up in flames on the side of Effort-Neola Road near the intersection of Little Mexico Road in Chestnuthill Twp, Monroe County. The driver returned to his car […]
1 min read - Worlddpa international
China looms large as German foreign minister sets off on Pacific trip
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock set off on Wednesday on a week-long trip to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji where the focus will be on security policy and climate protection. Baerbock noted that the region is becoming increasingly important to Germany for strategic and economic reasons, especially given tensions with China over human rights, trade and Taiwan. Australia and New Zealand were "more directly exposed than we are to the violent gusts of wind that are being sent around the wo
2 min read - ScienceMiami Herald
Scaly creature — with yellow eyelids — found lurking in forest. It’s a new species
The nocturnal animal was discovered near a rocky stream in Vietnam.
2 min read - WorldBBC
Key mining town seized - DR Congo rebels
Rubaya is DR Congo's main coltan producer, used to make batteries for electric vehicles and phones.
2 min read - WorldThe Independent
Air Canada under fire for removing native chief’s headdress and stuffing case in cargo hold
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the situation as ‘unacceptable’
3 min read - USWFLD
DePaul students continue encampment in solidarity with Gaza on Lincoln Park campus
DePaul University students announced their plans for the second day of encampment in solidarity with Gaza on Tuesday.
1 min read - WorldBBC
Kenya floods: Tourists and staff stranded in Maasai Mara game reserve
Helicopters are deployed to evacuate tourists and staff trapped in the famous game reserve.
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