Italy said Thursday it was seizing more than 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets belonging to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Money derived from drug trafficking and reinvested in Europe and beyond. The “vast fortune” of the ruthless Cosa Nostra boss — a legendary figure finally captured in 2023 in Palermo after three decades …
BOGOTA, May 28 (Reuters) – Right-wing Colombian lawyer and senator Paloma Valencia is running to become her country’s first female president in a Sunday presidential contest, promising to strengthen security and revive the economy, which she says have deteriorated under the current leftist government. Valencia, 48, a scion of two powerful conservative families, is backed …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term was supposed to be an easy lift for Republicans. But progress stalled over concerns about the inclusion of White House ballroom security funding in the package and the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to …
May 28 (Reuters) – A combined German-Dutch army corps will take command of NATO land forces in Estonia and Latvia later this year to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank against a potential Russian attack, the countries said on Thursday. The so-called 1 German-Netherlands Corps (1GNC), based in the German city of Muenster, will become a …
TOKYO (AP) — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened. Chinese newcomers, like Booster Robotics and LimX Dynamics, took the technology initially developed in Japan and the U.S. and fine-tuned it, often for cheaper …
By Alexander Dziadosz, Nazih Osseiran and Catherine Cartier SIDON/BEIRUT, May 28 (Reuters) – The ceasefire agreed in Lebanon last month has brought little respite for civilians, who are being driven from a steadily expanding swathe of the country by a relentless Israeli campaign of evacuations and air strikes. The U.S.-brokered truce announced on April 16, …
By Amina Niasse and Ahmed Aboulenein NEW YORK, May 28 (Reuters) – More Americans are dropping out or being kicked off Obamacare health insurance for non-payment than in past years, according to data through April from half a dozen states that sell the plans themselves. The cancellations are posing a political liability for President Donald …
Melbourne, Australia — Australia is suing U.S. conglomerate 3M for more than 2 billion Australian dollars ($1.4 billion) over so-called “forever chemical” contamination from firefighting foam at defense bases, the government said on Thursday. The government’s largest-ever claim for compensation relates to contamination with per- and polyfluoroaklyl substances, known as PFAS, at 28 bases. Human-made …
American climber Tyler Andrews set a new speed record using supplementary oxygen on Mount Everest on Thursday, his team told AFP, summiting the world’s highest peak an hour quicker than anyone before. Andrews, 36, climbed the 29,032-foot peak in just 9 hours and 55 minutes, shattering the record of 10 hours and 56 minutes held …
The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions Wednesday on Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority, the new Tehran agency that collects fees for traveling through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. “The Iranian military’s latest attempt to extort global maritime trade is proof that Economic Fury has left the regime desperate for cash,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent …