May 12 (Reuters) – German police said on Tuesday it had launched an investigation into the death of a member of the federal police’s special forces during a shooting exercise at a military training area in the northern town of Putlos . Initial findings suggest that the shooting on Monday evening was an accident, the …
LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) – Britain’s Miatta Fahnbulleh, a junior minister in the housing and communities department, resigned from government on Tuesday. “I urge the Prime Minister to do the right thing for the country and the Party and set a timetable for an orderly transition,” she posted on X. (Reporting by Sarah Young, writing …
MANILA, May 12 (Reuters) – The top enforcer of former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on drugs urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Tuesday to not hand him over to the International Criminal Court, but said he was ready to face justice at home. Fearing arrest and hunkered down in his legislative office for …
JERUSALEM, May 12 (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Tuesday that Israel had sent an Iron Dome battery and personnel to operate the air defence system to the United Arab Emirates. “Israel just sent (the UAE) Iron dome batteries and personnel to help them operate them. How come? Because there’s an …
By Karen Lema and Nestor Corrales MANILA, May 12 (Reuters) – Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has again been impeached by the lower house, a little over a year after an earlier impeachment against her was voided on constitutional grounds. The new complaint once again accused Duterte, the daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte, of …
An American climber has died in an avalanche on Mount Makalu, officials said Tuesday, as fatalities mount early in Nepal’s busy spring climbing season. Shelley Johannesen, 53, was killed on Monday while descending from the summit of the world’s fifth-highest peak, expedition organizers said, marking the season’s latest death. David Roubinek, a 38-year-old Czech climber, …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than three decades ago, Lamar Hunt and his son Clark stood on the field inside Arrowhead Stadium, trying to pitch FIFA on the prospect that their NFL stadium could play host to World Cup games hosted by the U.S. in the summer of 1994. Their pitch back in 1990 …
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a bazaar in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding more than two dozen others, police said, in the latest sign of escalating violence in the region bordering Afghanistan. The attack took place in Lakki Marwat, a district in …
The French Riviera festival beginning Tuesday will include 12 days of nonstop world premieres before culminating May 23 with the presentation of the Palme d’Or, the festival’s top honor and one of the film industry’s most prestigious awards. The festivities kick off with the opening-night film, “The Electric Kiss,” a French period-comedy, and the awarding …
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation. Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office announced late Monday that Andriy Yermak is suspected in an alleged 460-million-hryvnia ($10.5 million) money-laundering …