The long-awaited trial of James Eagan Holmes, charged with several counts of murder in the 2012 movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, set to begin Tuesday. Mana Rabiee reports.
Decked in the national orange color, dancing to music, and eating orange-glazed pastries, many in the Netherlands Saturday are marking King's Day, celebrating the birthday of their monarch who is enjoying a very slight rise in popularity as per a national poll. Others toured through the historic canals of the capital, Amsterdam as orange smoke from flares held aloft one boat drifted over vessels of all shapes and sizes jostling for space on a busy canal. An annual poll published by the NOS for King’s Day showed Willem-Alexander’s popularity edging up very slightly since last year to 6.6 out of 10.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said for the first time on Saturday that he supports a reform of the country's constitutionally-enshrined debt brake, but does not currently see any possibility of doing it right now. Altering the rules of the debt brake, which limits public deficits to 0.35% of gross domestic product, would require a two-thirds majority in the upper and lower houses of parliament. The brake is fiercely defended by Scholz' coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), and earlier this week the chancellor himself had also seemed more sceptical about reform.
British troops may be tasked with delivering aid to Gaza from an offshore pier now under construction by the U.S. military, the BBC reported Saturday. According to the BBC, the British government is considering deploying troops to drive the trucks that will carry aid from the pier along a floating causeway to the shore. No decision has been made and the proposal hasn’t yet reached Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, the BBC reported, citing unidentified government sources.
Destructive tornadoes gutted homes as they plowed through Nebraska and Iowa, and the dangerous storm threat could escalate Saturday as tornado-spawning storms pose a risk from Michigan to Texas.
President Cyril Ramaphosa touted South Africa's achievements under his party's leadership on Saturday as the country celebrated 30 years of democracy a month before its most consequential election in decades."South Africa today is an infinitely better place than it was 30 years ago," Ramaphosa said in a speech marking "Freedom Day" at the Union Buildings, the seat of government, in Pretoria.
Earnings presentations from four of the biggest tech companies in the world showed two very different visions of AI: the moonshot and the incremental gains.
Interviews with nearly two dozen young Latino students on college campuses in battleground states revealed many are uninterested in backing the two main candidates.
MADRID (Reuters) -Thousands of Socialist Party supporters travelled from across Spain for a rally in Madrid on Saturday to call on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay on, after he stunned the country this week by saying he might quit the premiership. Sanchez said on Wednesday he would step back "for a few days" to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife's private dealings. Sanchez denies the allegations made against his wife, Begona Gomez, and said he will announce his decision on his future on Monday.
Two NASA astronauts are set to become the first to launch aboard Boeing's Starliner space capsule. They will fly to the space station in a high-stakes test flight.
Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack.
Kitten season may sound cute and cuddly, but the reality is a massive strain on an already hugely encumbered system.
Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr on Saturday expressed his support for pro-Palestinian encampments at universities in the United States and called for an end to police action against them.All Iraqi political factions support the Palestinian cause, and like its neighbour Iran, Israel's sworn enemy, Iraq does not recognise the Israeli state. tgg-rh/it
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WASHINGTON — Amid growing protests on college campuses by pro-Palestinian demonstrators, the White House is planning for President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to have a minimal presence for a traditional rite of spring: delivering commencement addresses.
“It sure ain’t originalism,” one critic said.
Russia launched a "massive" missile strike at Ukraine overnight, damaging four power plants in the latest barrage targeting the country's energy supply, officials in Kyiv said on Saturday.- Energy rationing - The DTEK power operator said equipment at four of its thermal power plants was "severely damaged" in the overnight strikes.
The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, the world's most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum's president said on Saturday.The Mona Lisa currently hangs in the Louvre's Salle des Etats (State Room), the museum's biggest, in a protective glass case, but Da Vinci's masterwork is not alone there.
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university late on Friday after days of tensions. The head of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, known as Sciences Po, said an agreement was found Friday with students. Tensions had break out on the campus as pro-Palestinian students sought to occupy an amphitheater earlier this week.
Early into United Methodist Church's top legislative assembly in Charlotte, delegates pass proposals to refashion regional authority.
At one campaign rally after another, former President Donald Trump whips his supporters into raucous cheers with a promise of what’s to come if he’s given another term in office: “We will demolish the deep state.”
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