A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early Monday after US police fatally shot Daunte Wright, a young unarmed Black man, sparking protests. A suburb of Minneapolis was under curfew early Monday after US police fatally shot a young Black man, sparking protests not far from where a former police officer was on trial for the murder of George Floyd.
Among weapons arriving at the border are six Tyulpan self-propelled mortars (Picture. Getty Images/East2West/Reuters). Dominic Raab has called on Russia to ‘immediately de-escalate’ tension with Ukraine as troops began massing at the border in the biggest military build-up since the conflict began in 2014 ... Advertisement. Advertisement ... TASS) ... .
One person has died and another been injured in a shooting outside a hospital in Paris, a police source has said. The attacker fled the scene on a motorcycle, the source told Reuters ...SIGN UP ... .
At least seven members of the Catholic clergy, five of them Haitian and two French, have been kidnapped in Haiti, the spokesman for the Bishop’sConference for the island nation said ... The kidnappers demanded a $1m ransom for the group, which includes one French priest and one French nun, he added ... Moise was re-elected a year later ... .
Sixty years ago today, Yuri Gagarin became the first human ever in space. Space.com reports.. Because no one was certain how weightlessness would affect a pilot, the spherical capsule had little in the way of onboard controls; the work was done either automatically or from the ground ... But the supplies were unnecessary ... .
Read full article. 12 April 2021, 8.10 am183;4-min read. 1 / 2. Myanmar's Suu Kyi asks court to let her meet lawyers; activists urge New Year defiance. Protest against the military coup, in Dawei... As the champion of decades of struggle against military rule appeared for the hearing, her supporters called for people to show their opposition to a Feb ... .
Boris Johnson allegedly signed the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement on a "fraudulent" basis, the Court of Appeal heard on Monday. Senior judges were told the Prime Minister acted in bad faith because he never intended to keep to the terms of the UK's departure from the European Union...Barry Macdonald QC contended ... Mr Macdonald added ... .
- Guillermo Lasso, 65, will be sworn in as President in May. - Win by pro-market Lasso reassures bondholders amid IMF plan. By Stephan Kueffner/Bloomberg. Quito. Petroleumworld 04 09 2021 ... QuickTake. Why Ecuador's runoff Sunday's election is important. Ecuador's notes due in 2040 have risen from an early-March low to trade at 45.5 cents on the U.S. dollar.
The set of images, clicked on the Red Planet at 80.3 degrees north latitude, 172.1 degrees east longitude, were released to mark the 20th anniversary of Odyssey, the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history. PUBLISHED ON APR 12, 2021 08.52 AM IST... Two types of dunes are seen in the image ... ....
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Taiwan has accused the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of its largest incursion of the nation's air defense zone with jets and nuclear-capable bombers, as joint US-Philippines military drills begin in the South China Sea... 25 PLA aircraft (Y-8ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C, J-10*4, J-16*14 and H-6K*4) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Apr. 12, 2021.
Lebanon’s economy is in tatters. Still, the country might be saved from disaster if it can eventually benefit from hydrocarbon deposits off its shoreline. But to do that, it must first settle its maritime boundary with Israel – the key prospects lie in waters disputed by both ... With a stronger economy, Israel can afford to wait out Lebanon ... Map. Twitter.