No safety inspections were carried out since 2019 at the Swiss bar that burst into flames at New Year, killing 40 people, the mayor of the town of Crans-Montana said on Tuesday. “We are profoundly sorry. We did not have an indication that the checks had not been done,” Crans-Montana Mayor Nicolas Feraud told reporters […]
Continue ReadingBillionaire Elon Musk has hinted at a reconciliation with US president Donald Trump as the pair shared a “lovely dinner” at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The pair were joined by Mr Trump’s wife Melania, just hours after US missile strikes in Caracas led to the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. The pair […]
Continue ReadingDeposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro declared himself “innocent” and a “decent man” as he pleaded not guilty to federal drug-trafficking charges in a US courtroom. “I’m innocent. I am not guilty. I am a decent man, the president of my country,” Maduro told a judge. Maduro was making his first appearance in an American courtroom […]
Continue ReadingDeposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro is making his first appearance in an American courtroom on the narco-terrorism charges the Trump administration used to justify capturing him and bringing him to New York. Maduro, wearing a blue jail uniform, and his wife were led into court at around noon for a brief, but required, legal proceeding […]
Continue ReadingUS vice president JD Vance on Monday said “a crazy person” had tried to break into his Ohio home by hammering on the windows, noting he and his family were not there at the time. CNN, citing an unnamed US law enforcement source, reported earlier that officials were probing an incident at the home and […]
Continue ReadingSwiss police says they have identified all the people who were injured in the fire that tore through a new year’s celebration in a crowded bar. They put the total at 116, with more than two-thirds still in hospitals. Authorities had previously given a figure of 119 injured, on top of the 40 people killed. […]
Continue ReadingA Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying France’s first lady Brigitte Macron. All defendants were handed a variety of sentences, ranging from cyberbullying awareness training to eight-month suspended prison terms. The French court pointed to “particularly degrading, insulting, and malicious” comments referring to false claims regarding alleged trans identity and alleged criminality […]
Continue ReadingA tense calm held in Venezuela on Sunday, one day after president Nicolas Maduro was deposed and captured in an American military operation. Venezuela’s capital Caracas was unusually quiet, with few vehicles moving around. Convenience shops, fuel stations and other businesses were mostly closed. A day before, queues wound through shops and outside petrol stations […]
Continue ReadingTeenagers as young as 14 and 15 were among those who died in the New Year’s Eve bar fire that killed 40 people in Switzerland, police said on Sunday, as the Pope offered his sympathies to the victims and their families. Police in Valais said they had identified 16 more of those who died in […]
Continue ReadingThe US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Saturday on Fox News, adding: “We’ll be involved in it very much.” “We can’t take a chance in letting somebody else run and just take over what he left, or left off,” Mr Trump said in the interview with Fox News […]
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