Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt The attacks came to define a generation of foreign, security and intelligence policy in the first decades of this century, the BBC’s security correspondent writes. Several killed and injured in Swiss Alps coach crash Several people have been killed and others injured in a Dutch tour bus crash in eastern Switzerland, police said. A year after Charlie Kirk’s death, are young voters turning on Trump? Turning Point USA has expanded its campus presence, even as Trump’s support among young men has fallen. Russian strike hits shopping centre in central Ukraine A Russian strike on a shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad killed at least four people. A Succession Battle Erupts Over a Late Ugandan Monarch Family members and royal leaders are jockeying for control in the Tooro Kingdom after its former boy king died last month. Elders chose a TV journalist to succeed him, but the royal family has objected. Philippines defense minister reads private note from China to live audience In a viral video recorded at a conference in Seoul, Philippines Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr., said: “Perhaps basic decency and behavior is what China needs to do.” |
US announces new sanctions against networks aiding Hezbollah, other Iranian proxies in Middle East The sanctions targeted entities the US Treasury said supported the Iraqi-based Kataib Hezbollah and Lebanon-based Hezbollah. Florida executes man in connection to Hog Trail Murders The execution of Daniel Owen Conahan Jr makes him the state’s 15th person executed this year A Florida man was executed by lethal injection on Thursday after being convicted of one of a series of suspected killings that became known as the Hog Trail Murders in the 1990s. Daniel Owen Conahan Jr, 72, was sentenced to death for the 1996 kidnapping and strangling of Richard Allen Montgomery. Authorit… Majority of graduates feel they’re falling behind professionally Bord Bia report says most find it ‘impossible to get experience without a job, and impossible to get a job without experience’ DNA main hope for identity, but backlog overwhelms Nepal forensic labs Nepal's forensic laboratories are in a race against time 15 days after the Bhote Koshi-Trishuli flood, with thousands of DNA samples arriving at facilities accustomed to processing fewer than 900 tests in an entire year. As visual identification becomesdifficult because of decomposition and mutilation, DNA is now the main hope of putting names to 1,265 unidentified bodies and human remains. Lawyer Vijay Aggarwal and assistant Manpreet Kaur appear in London court over sexual assault charges 8.5 hours of sleep, 3 hours of reading, 15-minute afternoon nap: United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby shares his daily routine United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby starts his day before most people have even begun checking their emails, but he doesn't immediately dive into a packed schedule of meetings. 59-year-old Kirby, who runs one of the world's biggest airlines, says he typically gets about eight and a half hours of sleep before waking at 5:30 am. Norway to bid farewell to King Harald V with funeral attended by royalty, dignitaries Norway has bid its final farewell to Harald V as crowds line the streets and foreign royals and leaders converge on Oslo for the funeral of the long-serving king Questions swirl over Trump's pledge to give $5,000 payouts if GOP wins The promise would likely cost more than $1 trillion and require congressional approval, and would further exacerbate the country's nearly $1.8-trillion annual budget deficit and concerns about inflation. |
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