Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Twitter the migrants on Ocean Viking would be picked up in worldwide waters and then transferred onshore by Maltese military boats. The ship, which had been stranded in worldwide waters between Malta and the southern Italian island of Linosa, had been denied entry by Malta while requests to Italy had gone unanswered, the charities previously said. [Full Article...]
Sources close to the family told Jane Mayer of the New Yorker that Koch had died. His older brother, Charles Koch , confirmed his death Friday, per CNN. The brothers founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity. Bill and Frederick Koch and other dissident stockholders sold their interests, and the brothers later sued claiming the company withheld crucial information t... [Full Article...]
German chancellor Angela Merkel's largely conciliatory response to Johnson's request that the Irish backstop question be revisited may be influenced by concern that a recession is looming in Germany, that would nearly certainly diffuse throughout the Eurozone. [Full Article...]
Israeli troops have been deployed around Dolev, which is 15km (9 miles) north of Jerusalem and near the Palestinian village of Deir Ibzi. A military helicopter evacuated the wounded, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He added that "Security force are in pursuit of the vile terrorists. Our long arm will pay them their dues". Tensions have been high in the West Bank in recent weeks, ... [Full Article...]
The US Department of Defense said in a statement on Monday that on August 18 the US "conducted a flight test of a conventionally-configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, California ". follows through on warnings to Moscow and withdraws from the Reagan-era nuclear treaty with Russia; Lucas Tomlinson reports from the Pentagon . Now, one " cannot deny " a breach of the now... [Full Article...]
At least four people died and more than 100 were injured in lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says. A couple is seen hiking inthe Tatra Mountains National Park. He added that three of the injured individuals - all of whom were taken by helicopter to area hospitals - were in intensive care. [Full Article...]
Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion David Kaye (USA), Special Rapporteur on human rights Michel Forst (France), Chair-Rapporteur Working Group on Enforced Disappearances Bernard Duhaime, Special Rapporteur on right to peaceful assembly Clement Nyaletsossi Voule and Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Agnes Callamard expressed concern over the human rights situation after Indian par... [Full Article...]
Ron DeSantis says 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. Thursday after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. Gary Ray Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland but was only convicted of three deaths. Bowles ultimately was captured when he left behind a paycheck stub at the scene of one of the murders. [Full Article...]
Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Twitter the migrants on Ocean Viking would be picked up in worldwide waters and then transferred onshore by Maltese military boats. The ship, which had been stranded in worldwide waters between Malta and the southern Italian island of Linosa, had been denied entry by Malta while requests to Italy had gone unanswered, the charities previously said. [Full Article...]
Sources close to the family told Jane Mayer of the New Yorker that Koch had died. His older brother, Charles Koch , confirmed his death Friday, per CNN. The brothers founded the anti-tax, small government group Americans for Prosperity. Bill and Frederick Koch and other dissident stockholders sold their interests, and the brothers later sued claiming the company withheld crucial information t... [Full Article...]
German chancellor Angela Merkel's largely conciliatory response to Johnson's request that the Irish backstop question be revisited may be influenced by concern that a recession is looming in Germany, that would nearly certainly diffuse throughout the Eurozone. [Full Article...]
Israeli troops have been deployed around Dolev, which is 15km (9 miles) north of Jerusalem and near the Palestinian village of Deir Ibzi. A military helicopter evacuated the wounded, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. He added that "Security force are in pursuit of the vile terrorists. Our long arm will pay them their dues". Tensions have been high in the West Bank in recent weeks, ... [Full Article...]
The US Department of Defense said in a statement on Monday that on August 18 the US "conducted a flight test of a conventionally-configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, California ". follows through on warnings to Moscow and withdraws from the Reagan-era nuclear treaty with Russia; Lucas Tomlinson reports from the Pentagon . Now, one " cannot deny " a breach of the now... [Full Article...]
At least four people died and more than 100 were injured in lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Poland, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki says. A couple is seen hiking inthe Tatra Mountains National Park. He added that three of the injured individuals - all of whom were taken by helicopter to area hospitals - were in intensive care. [Full Article...]
Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion David Kaye (USA), Special Rapporteur on human rights Michel Forst (France), Chair-Rapporteur Working Group on Enforced Disappearances Bernard Duhaime, Special Rapporteur on right to peaceful assembly Clement Nyaletsossi Voule and Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Agnes Callamard expressed concern over the human rights situation after Indian par... [Full Article...]
Ron DeSantis says 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles was pronounced dead at 10:58 p.m. Thursday after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. Gary Ray Bowles admitted to killing six men in 1994 from Florida to Maryland but was only convicted of three deaths. Bowles ultimately was captured when he left behind a paycheck stub at the scene of one of the murders. [Full Article...]