Only after returning to shore did he learn what had happened.
Messages flooded his WeChat feed. Friends in Caracas, Valencia and Maracay described buildings collapsing and streets filled with dust. Then
Ningrong Liu is a professor in globalisation and business at the City University of Hong Kong.
At its core, the Northern Metropolis bears a dual mission.
Murdaugh’s murder convictions and life sentence were overturned last month and he was back in court on charges he killed his wife and son
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Alex Murdaugh was back in court Monday on charges he killed his wife and son, appearing silently at a pretrial hearing that was mostly short on substance but long on spectacle as the true-crime sensation continues to captivate.
Swiss authorities on Monday returned 18 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria in a ceremony at the National Museum in Lagos, the latest addition to the nation’s growing collection of repatriated treasures.
Countries across Africa have been pushing in recent years for the restitution of artefacts and artworks taken during the colonial period – including Nigeria’s famed Benin Bronzes, which were looted as spoils of war by the British and today are scattered in museums and private collections across the world.
Hundreds of the priceless sculptures and plaques were taken from the royal
A conservative law professor known for his expansive views of presidential power and for decades-old memos that justified harsh interrogation techniques after the September 11 terror attacks says he will be advising a team of prosecutors investigating whether former police and intelligence officials conspired against US President Donald Trump.
John Yoo confirmed in an email to Associated Press on Monday that he would be helping Joe diGenova, the former Justice Department prosecutor who was assigned in April to investigate whether officials, who over the last decade scrutinised Trump, took part in a criminal
French police on Monday detained a couple after their 15-month-old twin daughters died of suspected dehydration, a source close to the investigation said.
The couple’s four other children, aged three, four, five and six, were hospitalised with dehydration but were not in life-threatening condition, the source said.
The parents alerted emergency services in the northern town of Beuvrages after discovering the twins in their beds, a police source said. Preliminary findings indicate that the children died of dehydration.
The town
The Bafta-winner was made a dame in 2014 for services to the arts and to charity. Her family said she had been diagnosed with cancer
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Penelope Keith, a comic performer who shone as flinty but lovable upper-crust characters in British sitcoms The Good Life and To the Manor Born , has died aged 86.
Keith’s family said on Monday that she had been diagnosed with
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has visited Russia and then China following a series of public exchanges with Ukraine, meeting President Xi Jinping in Beijing and Russian President Vladimir Putin at his Valdai residence.
Lukashenko told Xi that being in China was for him “like coming home”, Belarusian journalists accompanying the delegation reported on Monday.
Xi said China supported Belarus in preserving its state sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, according to statements from the Chinese side.
China and Belarus must maintain their strategic dialogue and continue to develop bilateral relations at a
The US Supreme Court refused on Monday to let President Donald Trump fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook as it stood firm to preserve the central bank’s cherished independence against an unprecedented challenge.
The court, in a 5-4 ruling, blocked Trump’s bid to become the first president to remove a Fed official since Congress created the central bank in 1913. In his second term as president, Trump has tested the limits of presidential power in numerous other ways as well.
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