Meanwhile, businessman Tom Steyer, who ran an unsuccessful bid for California governor earlier this year, is one of the few billionaires who has said, external he would vote in favour of the tax. Steyer said that although he believed the way the measure was written was “problematic”, it was necessary to protect vulnerable Californians. Huang,…
Adolf Hitler’s Alpine mountain retreat, known as the Eagle’s Nest, was engulfed in flames on Friday night while police arrested a 33-year-old male suspect. The residence, called the Kehlsteinhaus, is above the town of Berchtesgaden. It was one of several buildings in the area used by the Nazi dictator and his entourage during World War…
Helen Mirren, 81, is campaigning to protect Italy’s ancient olive trees from Xylella fastidiosa, which has devastated millions of trees since 2013. (Photo: Instagram) Oscar-winning actor Dame Helen Mirren has spent decades entertaining audiences with her performances, but one of her most important missions lies far from the film sets. The 81-year-old actor is fighting…
She wrote on X that the tariff exemptions were on products that were “crucial to Maine’s agricultural industries, including blueberry, potato, apple, and seaweed producers”. Collins’ Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, responded: “Trump’s trade wars have made life harder and more expensive for Mainers. Susan Collins enabled this chaos, voted to confirm the people behind it…
Vanessa Trump, the former wife of Donald Trump Jr, has announced that she is cancer-free following her breast cancer diagnosis earlier this year. Trump, 48, who has five children with President Donald Trump’s eldest son, shared in a short video on her 19-year-old daughter Kai’s Instagram account that her recent tests results “came back clear,…
Three people, who were arrested in connection with a suspected arson attack which killed four family members in the Republic of Ireland, have been released, gardaí (Irish police) have said. Philip and Kim English and two of their children – nine-year-old Jayden and 12-year-old Callum – died after their home in Birch Avenue, on the…
In a statement, posted on social media, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said: “According to the preliminary report, shortly after 10am, officers at the Alice Town police station received information that a female was unresponsive at the North Bimini Ferry Dock. “Officers responded and, upon arrival, learned that the woman had been transported to the…
Ukraine now has a “stable connection” to Starlink, its defence minister has said, after its military suffered days of restricted connectivity on the satellite network. Kyiv relies on the Starlink and its military-grade counterpart Starshield for piloting drones and operations within Ukraine, but last week accused US President Donald Trump of telling owner Elon Musk…
A search and rescue effort is under way to find seven people feared trapped under rubble after a building collapsed in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Dramatic footage shows the bottom floor of the block, thought to have been 16 or 18 storeys, giving way before the rest of the building crumples, sending a plume of…
The US has warned its citizens against travelling to Kenya, while neighbouring countries such as Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia are also on alert. Ebola is a rare but deadly disease, external caused by a virus. As the disease progresses, vomiting and diarrhoea develop and it can lead to organ failure. Some, but not all, patients…