Category: World News
Belgian art foundation to exhibit $5 million T. rex skeleton in Antwerp
Fox News A Swiss auction house that sold a composite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton for over $5 million this week said Friday that the new owner, a Belgian art foundation, will exhibit the fearsome dinosaur at a new cultural center in Antwerp. The skeleton, made up of nearly 300 bones dug up from three sites in…
Read MoreGerman court sentences man who drove into groups of pedestrians to be permanently held in psychiatric hospital
Fox News A German court has convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16 counts of attempted murder, ordering him to be permanently held in a psychiatric hospital. The Berlin regional court concluded that the driver, a German citizen born in Armenia,…
Read MoreJapanese LGBTQ activists urge government to enact anti-discrimination law
Fox News Japanese LGBTQ activist groups delivered a statement to the government on Friday urging that Japan enact an anti-discrimination law and legalize same-sex marriages ahead of a summit of the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations being hosted by Japan in May. Japan is the only G-7 country that does not recognize same-sex marriage…
Read MoreGerman climate advocates march through Berlin, cause gridlock in parts of the capital
Fox News German climate activists best known for bringing traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves to the road instead staged a rare protest on the move Friday, marching through Berlin and causing gridlock in parts of the capital. Members of the group Last Generation have repeatedly blocked roads across Germany in the past year…
Read MoreBoat sinking on lake between Zambia and Congo leaves 15 dead
Washington Post Congolese lawmakers say 14 people drowned in a lake on the border between Zambia and Congo when the boat they were taking across sank earlier this week https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/congo-drownings-zambia/837b6048-e056-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreBritish minister blasts absurd saga to force him out of leadership following resignation
Fox News British politician Dominic Raab blasted the inquiry against him as an absurdist “Kafkaesque saga” in a fiery rebuke posted following his resignation from the post of deputy prime minister in the U.K. government. Raab resigned from his post following the results of an inquiry into bullying allegations during his time in government. In…
Read MoreGerman police publish images of fugitive gym attack suspect
Washington Post German police have released pictures of a man suspected of carrying out a stabbing attack at a gym in which four people were seriously wounded https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/germany-gym-attack-stabbing-duisburg/15bcf88a-e053-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreRussian mercenaries sympathetic to Putin target UK with cyber threats over war in Ukraine: report
Fox News Russian mercenary groups are ramping up their efforts to target opponents of President Vladimir Putin as the war in Ukraine rages, this time targeting U.K. infrastructure through cyber-attacks. According to the U.K.’s, Chancellor Oliver Dowden, head of cybersecurity for the Cabinet Office and co-chair of the National Cyber Advisory Board, Britain has seen an…
Read MoreMexican man beaten, burned to death by huge mob for stealing broccoli
Fox News An impoverished man who went into a field to steal a pair of broccoli stalks was beaten and burned to death by a mob in central Mexico, prosecutors said Thursday. Local police managed to take the man away from the village of San Miguel Tianguistenco, but he died later of his injuries. The…
Read MoreArgentina’s President Fernández won’t seek reelection
Washington Post Argentina’s President Alberto Fernández announced Friday he won’t seek reelection for a second term this year, a decision that follows months of infighting among the ruling coalition as it grapples with a fragile economy and galloping inflation https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/21/argentina-fernandez-president-reelection-wont-run/0f69e73e-e050-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
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