UK PM Rishi Sunak unveils biggest military spending increase in a generation
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hopes to increase the country's defense spending to £75 billion annually, or 2.5 percent of GDP, by the end of the decade. Stay tuned for additional information!
Taiwan earthquake: Search and rescue crews look for survivors
With 12 people dead from last week's earthquake, rescuers in Taiwan searched mountains for the other 12 missing on Friday and flew others to safety. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the adjacent coast, the most significant seismic to strike the island in 25 years, was followed two days later by the discovery of two more bodies in the highlands of Taiwan's eastern Hualien county.
Putin claims the perpetrators of the Moscow terror assault were their route to the Ukrainian border.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, claims that at the time of their arrest, the concert assailants were trying to escape to Ukraine. Russia's allegations have been refuted by Ukrainian intelligence, which has stated that they are occupied protecting their country from Russian invasion.
Panama's final presidential debate is overshadowed by a key omission.
In the final debate before the nation's May 5 election, six of the eight contenders for Panama's presidency outlined their strategies for creating jobs and handling the country's water crisis. Stay tuned for additional information!
Haiti faces a difficult path ahead as the Haiti Transition Council assumes office.
A new interim presidential council was inaugurated, sparking further unrest in Haiti and paving the way for the installation of a caretaker administration tasked with bringing peace to the nation beset by lethal gang warfare.
The Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen is on fire; no injuries have been recorded.
A major fire has started at the Old Stock Exchange in Copenhagen. Dousing the fire is a top priority for the firefighters. The Danish Stock Exchange is no longer located in the building; instead, the Danish Chamber of Commerce now has its offices there. Thus, no reports of injuries related to the incident exist.
A UK court allows Assange to challenge his extradition to the US.
According to a UK judge, Julian Assange should have the opportunity to challenge a decision to extradite him to the United States. The WikiLeaks founder must have the right to contest the British government's extradition request from June 2022, according to a ruling made on Tuesday by the High Court of London. This is unless the United States guarantees, in writing, that he will be given a fair trial and won't be executed. According to a UK judge, Julian Assange should have the opportunity to challenge a decision to extradite him to the United States. The High Court in London ruled on Tuesday that the WikiLeaks founder must have the right to challenge the British government’s June 2022 extradition order unless the United States provides within three weeks assurances that he would receive a fair trial and would not face the death penalty. A further hearing has been scheduled for May 20, meaning Assange cannot be extradited immediately. Depending on the ruling, his campaign team had warned that could have happened.
Can Plastic-Eating Worms be the solution to the plastic pollution crisis?
Are these squirmy worms the solution to the pollution caused by plastics? That is the hope held by researchers at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. They already know that garbage is broken down at the molecular level by the organisms' gut biomes and that they can be modified to break down plastic even more efficiently.
Georgia Foreign Agents Bill: The EU encourages Georgia to drop the contentious bill.
Protesters crowd the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, halting traffic throughout the city. The European Union has encouraged the government to drop its hotly debated Foreign Agents Bill.
Microsoft is releasing WordPad from Windows at last, after thirty years. Microsoft has announced that WordPad, a staple Windows application for almost three decades, will not be present in the next Windows 11 releases. The text editing tool was first introduced in Windows 95 and will be phased out completely. In Windows 11, it will not be installed automatically.
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PM Prachanda of Nepal receives a parliamentary vote of confidence, his third victory in the last 14 months.
The CPN Maoist, led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal of Nepal, has broken away from the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led Nepali Congress and allied themselves with the CPN-UML, led by KP Sharma Oli. The three septuagenarians have dominated Nepal's political scene and pulled strings for years. This is in a nation where youth (under 4 make up more than 40% of the population. Real problems like young employment and welfare are pushed aside by the political upheaval.
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