British-Israeli national Emily Damari says she “came back to life” in her first comments since being released from captivity in Gaza. The 28-year-old was shot in the hand and dragged from her home in southern Israel on 7 October 2023. She was one of the first three hostages to be released on Sunday, after spending…
Watch: Tech CEOs, celebs and presidents – see who’s at Trump’s inauguration Alongside the former presidents, family members and US officials you would expect to see at Donald Trump’s inauguration, there have also been a host of faces familiar for less traditional reasons. We’ve seen OpenAI CEO Sam Altman taking selfies with influencer brothers Logan…
Tanzania’s president has announced an outbreak of Marburg virus, an Ebola-like virus, just a week after her health minister denied that there were any cases in the country. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said at a press conference on Monday that health authorities had confirmed one case of Marburg in the north-western region of Kagera. “We…
AFP Zulu monarch Misuzulu kaZwelithini has faced a stumbling block over his planned wedding The first wife of South Africa’s Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has failed in her legal attempt to halt his plans to take a third wife. Queen Ntokozo kaMayisela went to court ahead of what was expected to be the wedding later…
A parade of tech billionaires and key members of his orbit joined President-elect Donald Trump as he kicked off his pre-inaugural celebrations with a church service on Monday morning. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, Apple leader Tim Cook, and Google chief Sundar Pichai were seen taking their prime seats at St John’s…
Reuters Debra Tice said she had “no idea” where her son was following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria The mother of US journalist Austin Tice, abducted in Syria while on a reporting trip in 2012 and one of the longest-held American hostages, has returned to the country for the first time in…
Pope Francis has said that Donald Trump’s plans to deport illegal migrants from the US would be a “disgrace” if they materialised. Speaking to an Italian TV programme from his Vatican residence, Francis said that if the plans went ahead, Trump would make “poor wretches that don’t have anything foot the bill”. “That’s not right….
President Joe Biden has pre-emptively pardoned a number of people including Covid response chief Anthony Fauci and the members of the January 6 riot investigation, to prevent “unjustified… politically motivated prosecutions”. Biden said: “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment.” Trump, how will be inaugurated later on Monday,…
Sometimes the orders are made during wartime or to avert a domestic crisis. In February 1942, President Franklin D Roosevelt signed an executive order that led to the creation of detention centres for about 120,000 Japanese Americans. In 1952 President Harry Truman issued an order that put the steel industry under the control of the…
A court in India has sentenced a man to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor, in a case that sparked nationwide outrage and protests. The judge rejected demands for the death penalty but said that Sanjoy Roy, a hospital volunteer who was convicted over the weekend, would spend the…
