No regrets from Snowden - winner of Swedish award
Edward Snowden, accepting Sweden's Right Livelihood Honorary Award, says he has no regrets about leaking National Security Agency documents. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Edward Snowden, accepting Sweden's Right Livelihood Honorary Award, says he has no regrets about leaking National Security Agency documents. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Years after false posts began circulating on social media purporting Brigitte Macron is a transgender woman, the French first lady remains the target of fake claims with the transphobic disinformation spreading to the United States.On March 22, a 51-year-old man was arrested in southwestern France for allegedly writing "Brigitte Macron, transsexual" on his garage, according to the French daily Le Figaro.
France says it has asked 46 countries if they would be willing to supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics this summer, as organizers finalize security planning for the French capital's first Games in a century while on heightened alert against potential attacks. The Interior Ministry said Friday that the request for foreign security assistance was made in January, seeking nearly 2,185 reinforcements. The officers are sought to help with Games security and “the spectator experience” and to “strengthen international cooperation," the ministry said.
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma survived a car accident overnight after a vehicle transporting him was hit by a drunk driver, police said on Friday. The driver's car "collided with former president Mr Jacob Zuma's official armoured state vehicle", the South African Police Service (SAPS) said.
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn to celebrate their belief in the resurrection of Jesus, the son of God — as the sun rises. For the majority of the world’s Christians, Easter Sunday — and in turn, the sunrise service tradition — will be observed on March 31 this year. WHY DOES EASTER MOVE EVERY YEAR? Easter is not a fixed date.
The gang leader who has become the face of Haiti's descent into lawlessness and violence has said he would consider calling a ceasefire only if his consortium of armed gangs was included in international talks on the country's future.
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It has been one year since the jailing of American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia on charges of espionage.
Not yet extinct, but getting there: experts estimate only 10 of this endangered species remain. Here's a list of the top 10 rarest animals on earth.
Emergency workers in South Africa were searching Friday for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire. The crash happened in a mountainous region near the town of Mokopane, which is about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the South African capital, Pretoria. The Limpopo provincial government said the bus, which was carrying pilgrims from Botswana, veered off the Mmamatlakala bridge and plunged 50 meters (164 feet) into a ravine.
Ukraine warned Friday that Russian air attacks were putting its electricity supply under "increasing threat", hours after strikes damaged power stations and killed at least one person.A Russian drone killed a 39-year-old man and wounded another person near the southeastern city of Nikopol, while an air attack on Kamianske further north wounded five people, including a child, authorities said.
A series of Israeli airstrikes targeting areas close to the Syrian city of Aleppo city have led to casualties among both civilians and military personnel early on Friday, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA.
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President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will compete Tuesday in the Wisconsin presidential primaries, a contest that’s now less about winning delegates and more about carrying the pivotal state in November. Wisconsin voters will also decide two proposed constitutional amendments that would shape how elections in the state are run and paid for. Trump, a Republican, and Biden, a Democrat, unofficially sealed their parties’ nominations on March 12, and while they aren’t competing head-to-head on Tuesday’s ballot, their campaigns are now fully focused on what’s expected to be another close general election fight in the Badger State.
Torrential rains forced the cancellation of famed Good Friday religious processions through Seville, leaving many faithful in tears in the southern Spanish city.Known as "La Madruga", or "The Dawn", the processions from midnight until dawn on Good Friday are organised by religious brotherhoods who spend months preparing for Easter week.
Births in Italy dropped to a record low in 2023, the 15th consecutive annual decline, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy's ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but despite successive governments pledging to make it a priority, none have so far been able to halt the drop. Last year Italy recorded 379,000 births, a 3.6% decline on 2022 and a 34.2% drop on 2008 -- the last year Italy saw an increase in the number of babies born.
Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday for the right to challenge 16-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District. Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith were the top vote-getters in the March 12 primary, but neither received the vote majority needed to avoid the runoff election. Eller, a military veteran and physician assistant, placed first in the primary with about 47% of the vote compared with about 36% for Smith, who has worked in commercial real estate and has a background in pumpkin farming.
The order regarding yeshivas poses one of the most serious threats to date for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
Lieberman represented Connecticut for decades and became the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket. He died Wednesday in New York City at 82 years old.
India's foreign minister held talks Friday with his Ukrainian counterpart, who was visiting to strengthen bilateral ties and cooperation with New Delhi, which considers Russia a historic ally from the Cold War-era. Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said in a post on the social media platform X that he and Dmytro Kuleba discussed “the ongoing conflict and its wider ramifications," and said the two would work together to boost relations between their countries. “India and Ukraine have been traditional friends, but I think there is much more that we can do and should do, not only in the interests of our nations, but also in the interest of global development and security architecture,” Kuleba said Friday.
None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. CLAIM: A video taken on Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge shows a large explosion that occurred before the structure fell into the water below. THE FACTS: The video is not related to the Key Bridge collapse.