A megaship which blocked Egypt's Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week has been 'seized' on court orders. A megaship which blocked Egypt's Suez Canal and crippled world trade for nearly a week has been 'seized' on court orders until the vessel's owners pay $900 million, canal authorities said Tuesday ... Read more ... A looming conflict?.
An Italian appeals court on Tuesday upheld a life sentence for an emergency room doctor convicted of killing ten people, while acquitting him of three other murders ... The ruling by the Milan court against Leonardo Cazzaniga, 65, came just months after it upheld a 30-year-old sentence against his nurse lover for killing two people ... ....
Russia has warned Turkey against fueling the Ukrainian government’s “never-ending militarization sentiments,” amid speculation that Kiev may be planning to launch a new offensive against the Russian-speaking Donbass region in Ukraine... The Turkish government provided Ukraine with drones in 2019 ... ‘We live here! What about you?!’ ... www.presstv.ir ... .
More than 24 Sudanese political parties announced their rejection of normalising relations with the occupation and the abolition of Israel boycott law ...Last year, Sudan signed the Abraham Accords to build ties with Israel under US auspices. Khartoum followed in the steps of the UAE and Bahrain. OPINION ... ....
>. Former UFC champion Conor McGregor has been criticised after telling his three-year-old son to hit another child back “in the mouth”. In a video posted onto Facebook from a beach in Dubai, where McGregor is on holiday with his family, his son Conor Jr. is seen disclosing to his father that he had been struck on the back ... He said. “Hit him back ... 1 ... 2 ... 3.
Police shot and killed a Knoxville, Tennessee, high school student on Monday after they said he opened fire on them in a campus bathroom, wounding an officer. The gunfire, which erupted at about 3.15 p.m. at Austin-East MagnetHigh School on the east side of Knoxville, marked the latest in a rash of shootings in the United States since mid-March ... ... .
Taiwan has accused the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of its largest incursion of the nation's air defense zone with jets and nuclear-capable bombers, as joint US-Philippines military drills begin in the South China Sea... 25 PLA aircraft (Y-8ASW*2, KJ-500 AEW&C, J-10*4, J-16*14 and H-6K*4) entered #Taiwan’s southwest ADIZ on Apr. 12, 2021.
Chinese technology giant Huawei is heavily focusing on optimising its portfolio to boost business resilience. It has announced that it will invest $1 billion in smart car technologies in 2021, according to media reports ... “Moving forward, we will continue to find ourselves in a complex and volatile global environment,” Xu said.
MOSCOW (AP) — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Tuesday he was suing his prison for withholding the Quran, which he intended to study while serving time in a prison outside Moscow... But he said Tuesday in an Instagram post that his first lawsuit against prison officials had to do with the Muslim holy book ... All rights reserved ... .
A tiny Swiss gold coin bearing a picture of Albert Einstein sticking his tongue out has been crowned as the world's smallest commemorative coin, Switzerland's mint announced Tuesday ... "Guinness World Records has recognised the quarter-franc gold coin issued in 2020 as the world's smallest commemorative coin," Swissmint said in a statement ... ....
TEHRAN – Iran has vowed to replace damaged centrifuges at Natanz nuclear enrichment plant with advanced ones after the plant suffered a problem involving its electrical distribution grid ... .
(Adds Pochettino quote). PARIS (Reuters) – Paris St Germain reached the Champions League semi-finals despite a 1-0 home defeat by holders Bayern Munich on Tuesday as they progressed on away goals after a 3-3 aggregate result in a thriller that was on a knife edge until the final whistle ... Pochettino added. “We were very focused ... .