PARIS, June 5 (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu summoned the interior minister, the justice minister and others on Friday over the case of a missing 11-year-old girl that has sparked an outcry over judicial missteps and missed opportunities to intervene, the government said. Lyhanna, currently identified only by her first name, was reported …
TIRANA, June 5 (Reuters) – Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of Tirana late on Thursday in the largest protest this week against a planned luxury resort on an environmentally sensitive part of the Adriatic coast by a company linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law. The €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) project is being led …
OSLO, June 5 (Reuters) – Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been placed on a waiting list for a lung transplant after a further deterioration of her health, the royal household said in a statement on Friday. The 52-year-old wife of Crown Prince Haakon, the heir to the Norwegian throne, was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis in …
June 4 (Reuters) – The Russian-installed management at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant accused Ukraine on Thursday of deploying more than 20 drones to attack a nearby thermal plant vital to supplying the facility with external power. Russian forces seized the plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, in the weeks following the February 2022 invasion …
The Republican president’s disclosure that he was ruling out installing Pulte in the position full-time came after bipartisan pushback on Capitol Hill in recent days over Pulte’s lack of national security experience. The position requires Senate confirmation, something that lawmakers indicated was unlikely if Pulte were the nominee. “He’s not going to be permanent because, …
Yost, a Republican, joined Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich in detailing a combined 22 new criminal counts against Charles “Chuck” Jones, the Akron-based energy giant’s former CEO, and Michael Dowling, its one-time top lobbyist. “The roots of this complex case haven’t changed — FirstEnergy was hijacked by two scheming executives who sought to control the …
The National Capital Planning Commission has kept alive the triumphal arch that President Donald Trump wants built at an entrance to the nation’s capital, requesting more information on how it could potentially impact air travel navigation in the area, as well as other specifics on construction and traffic in the area. Most members of the …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center is beginning the process of removing references to President Donald Trump a week after a federal judge ruled that his name had been illegally added to the performing arts center. Roma Daravi, the Kennedy Center’s vice president of public relations, said in a statement to The Associated Press that …
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz in a call on Thursday that the Trump administration was ramping up emergency assistance and support to help with food and medical shortages amid weeks of social unrest and mass protests in the South American country, the department said. …
BEIJING, June 5 (Reuters) – The number of Chinese students sitting the country’s national university entrance exam, due to begin on Sunday, has dropped sharply by 450,000 to 12.9 million from a year earlier, as more teenagers opt out of pursuing academic degrees. The figures, released by the Ministry of Education on Wednesday, come amid …