Local media quoted the provincial governor as saying 60 people had been killed.Published On 12 Mar 202212 Mar 2022A train crash in the southeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has killed at least 60 people, the state rail company and local sources said. “[Currently] the toll is 61 dead, men, women and children [and] 52…Continue Reading
Fighting rages near Kyiv as conditions deteriorate in other major Ukrainian cities under Russian bombardment.Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is braced for an all-out Russian assault as fighting intensified on the outskirts of the city. Air raid sirens were sounded in almost all regions of Ukraine on Saturday. The cities of Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Mariupol remain surrounded…Continue Reading
Former President Donald Trump took aim at two vulnerable Republicans facing tough primary challenges during his rally in South Carolina on Saturday night: Reps. Nancy Mace (SC) and Liz Cheney (WY). “In the first congressional district, you have another horrendous RINO known as crazy Nancy Mace,” the former president said, prompting boos from the crowd.…Continue Reading
On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week,” MSNBC Economic Analyst Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, said that we’re dealing with a potential stagflation problem where we have to “address both an inflation problem and potentially a growth problem at the same time” for the first…Continue Reading
The man who used to own the Delaware computer repair shop where Hunter Biden left his notorious “laptop from hell” says bankruptcy looms, as his life has been turned upside down by private citizens, tech giants, and federal agencies since the contents of the laptop became public. John Paul Mac Isaac, 45, tells the New…Continue Reading
Actor James Woods, who’s acting career spans five decades, says he has been “blacklisted” in Hollywood, and that he “couldn’t care less.” “Blacklisted. And couldn’t care less,” says James Woods in response to a Twitter user, who asked, “Are you going to be making any more movies again or are you completely blacklisted for being a free thinker?”…Continue Reading
Even by superyacht standards, the Scheherazade is enormous. Valued at an estimated $700 million, the vessel stretches to more than 450 feet, which is significantly longer than a football field. It has two helipads, elevator access between floors and gold-plated bathroom fixtures.U.S. officials believe it could potentially belong to Russian President Vladimir Putin himself, according…Continue Reading
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants…Continue Reading
MILAN — Italian financial police has seized a Russian-owned superyacht valued at $578 million in the port of Trieste as part of seizures of oligarch wealth to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the war on Ukraine.The “Sy A” yacht was identified by Italian police as belonging to billionaire Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, who made…Continue Reading
In 2011, three nuclear reactors melted down, provoking a series of hydrogen explosions and resulting in the world’s most severe nuclear accident. It happened in Japan, which had been long celebrated as a technology powerhouse.At the time of the accident, the site became a veritable death trap, with extremely high levels of radioactivity and chunks…Continue Reading