Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Ukraine attacks Russia’s Belgorod and Bryansk regions Russia’s defence ministry said its anti-aircraft units had destroyed 13 Ukrainian rockets over the southern Belgorod region on Friday and the regional governor said one person was killed and four injured in the incidents. … Read more
Breadcrumb Trail Links World Crime Author of the article: Associated Press Larry Neumeister Published Dec 29, 2023 • 2 minute read FILE – FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried leaves Manhattan federal court, June 15, 2023, in New York. A second trial of Bankman-Fried on charges not in the cryptocurrency fraud case presented to a jury that … Read more
Plenty of young Americans say they’d live a better life abroad, and their wish to do so is only growing as they get older. Some 1 in 4 American Gen Zers say they’d move abroad for better social programs, like universal health care, making it their main reason for wanting to live overseas. That’s according … Read more
The end of COVID-19 didn’t herald the end of issues plaguing the construction industry, including lengthy wait times to complete homes and residential builders going bust. Housing Industry Australia South Australian director Stephen Knight said the average time for a house to be finished is now about 14 months — still much longer than the … Read more
(NewsNation) — Border Patrol agents at the southern border have encountered 30 people on the terror watchlist at ports of entry since the beginning of the fiscal year that began in October, according to Customs and Border Protection data. The numbers updated Friday show that 17 of those encounters happened in November, Fox News reported. … Read more
Emily Hand, 9, is understood to be among the second group of hostages released from the Gaza Strip by Hamas. The Irish-Israeli girl was taken hostage by Hamas from Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Second round of hostages freed. Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on … Read more
NEW YORK – Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January civil trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan luxury department store. The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal … Read more
Israeli siege imposed after October 7 led to dire shortages of food, safe water, fuel (File) After nearly three months of deadly strikes, incessant displacements and sputtering humanitarian aid, “exhausted” Gazans say they are desperate for an end to the fighting as Israel’s war against Hamas looks set to grind on into the new year. … Read more
Dry January is at the centre of a political row in France after more than 45 professors of addiction studies signed a letter urging the state to promote a month of abstinence from alcohol. A group of senior academics and doctors working on addiction have written to the French health minister to say that not … Read more
Severe thunderstorms have returned to parts of Queensland, with the state bracing for another weekend of wild weather, even as recovery efforts from the storms that ravaged the south-east continue. Hail up to 5cm was spotted at Tara in the Western Downs on Saturday morning, while wind gusts reached 93km/h at Gympie. The Sunshine Coast … Read more
