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In the fight against Putin, Senate unanimously approves measure that once helped beat Hitler

The Senate unanimously passed major legislation late Wednesday to revive a World War II-era program allowing President Joe Biden to more efficiently send weapons and other supplies to Ukraine amid Russia’s bloody invasion.Senators quickly rallied behind the proposal, known as Lend-Lease, as Ukraine’s military proved it could fend off Russian troops who have been shelling Ukrainian cities and towns since late February.Lawmakers are resorting to extraordinary tactics last used during the most significant global conflict of the 20th century — yet another sign that the U. - Read More

Live: Delay on Russia oil embargo costing Ukrainian lives — Zelenskyy

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is grateful for Western sanctions but argues they don’t go far enough.Zelenskyy said Moscow was making so much money from oil exports that it did not need to take peace talks seriously and called on the “democratic world” to shun Russian crude.He said some politicians were “unable to decide how to limit the flow of petrodollars and oil euros to Russia so as not to put their own economies at risk”. - Read More

TCS, Cognizant to Accenture, top 10 companies in India for professionals - check LinkedIn's list

LinkedIn on April 6 launched the 2022 Top Companies list for India.As digital transformation gets in top gear, IT companies lead the pack and the top 3 firms are Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture and Cognizant, respectively, ramping up IT investments and hiring, a Microsoft-owned LinkedIn report said on Wednesday.The other sought-after companies for Indians are Amazon, Publicis Groupe, EY, ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries Limited, Tech Mahindra, HDFC Bank, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Oracle, Arm, Flipkart (Walmart), Dell Technologies, Bosch - Read More

EXCLUSIVE | Zuma demands Batohi get rid of Downer as his prosecutor amid looming trial date

With days to go before the start of Jacob Zuma's trial, his lawyers have written to prosecutions boss Shamila Batohi to demand she remove advocate Billy Downer as his lead corruption prosecutor.In a seven-page letter sent to Batohi eight days before the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) dismissed Zuma's latest attempts to force Downer's removal through a so-called special plea,Ntanga Nkuhlu Inc Attorneys complain the prosecutor "has steadfastly failed and/or refused to step down despite numerous requests and demands for him to do so". - Read More

For Trump, every day remains the 2020 Election Day

PALM BEACH, Fla.Ushered through the doors, he’d been met with a standing ovation, head nods and adoring smiles, the type of response he’s come to expect from the crowds that gather at his palatial Mar-a-Lago resort on the Florida coast.As he spoke, however, a tension became apparent in the room. - Read More

Ukraine seeks ‘ruinous’ sanctions on Russia as Europe hesitates

Ukraine wants sanctions that are economically destructive enough for Russia to end its war.After grisly images of dead civilians in the streets of Bucha sparked international condemnation, Mr Zelenskiy said Kremlin forces were trying to cover up evidence of atrocities.“We have information that the Russian military has changed its tactics and is trying to remove people who have been killed from streets and basements . - Read More

Ukraine War: Veterans prepare for battle in occupied Luhansk

The sound of Russian artillery grew louder as we drove to a Ukrainian frontline position in Luhansk.Russia's military offensive in eastern Ukraine is already intensifying.Russia is redeploying more of its forces from northern to eastern Ukraine. - Read More

FG Now Spends 98% Of Her Revenue On Debt Servicing — Peter Obi

Obi, who was the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) vice presidential candidate in 2019, lamented the woeful condition of the nation’s economy and concluded that the best candidate for the 2023 presidential election is the antidote to the economic woes.Speaking with newsmen shortly after briefing the National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP, Obi, who is a presidential aspirant, emphasised that the country should allow the best candidate to emerge in 2023, adding that that is the way out of the nation’s economic quagmire.What the party can do is to allow the best candidate to emerge. - Read More

Diepsloot protests: Diepsloot calm – for now – but police on high alert

Authorities are expected to continue operations in Diepsloot following two days of volatile and violent demonstrations over illegal immigrants living in the area.Diepsloot residents vented their anger in the streets after a spate of murders with claims that at least seven people were killed this past weekend.Police Minister Bheki Cele, together with National Police Commissioner Fannie Masemola, Gauteng premier David Makhura and provincial Community Safety MEC Faith Mazibuko visited Diepsloot to meet with the community leaders. - Read More

Sydney orders thousands to evacuate as heavy rains cause flash floods

Torrential downpours pummeled Australia's east coast on Thursday with Sydney receiving nearly a month's rain overnight, turning suburban roads into rivers and triggering evacuations as authorities warn of more to come through the day.Residents of a nursing home were evacuated overnight as emergency crews urged the harbor city's 5 million residents to avoid unnecessary travel and brace for possible evacuations.Sydney has received 1,227 millimeters (48 inches) of rain so far this year, more than its average annual rainfall of 1,213 millimeters. - Read More

Burkina Faso’s ex-president guilty of complicity in murder of predecessor

Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaoré has been sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty of complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara, concluding a landmark trial and a decades-long quest for justice.Sankara, a Marxist icon of pan-Africanism hailed across Africa and beyond, was gunned down along with 12 colleagues in the west African nation’s capital, Ouagadougou, at the age of 37, four years after he took power in a coup.Fourteen people were charged in total for Sankara’s killing in the trial, which began in October. - Read More

Qatar World Cup organizers admit workers were exploited

The United States has announced a new round of sanctions focusing on Russia’s financial institutions, as well as Russian officials and their family members.The ICRC reports it led more than 1,000 people to Zaporizhzhia in a convoy from the besieged Ukrainian city.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on Western nations to agree to an embargo on Russian oil. - Read More

Speaker’s ruling can’t be challenged under Article 69: FM Qureshi

Speaking during the presser outside the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that ruling from deputy speaker was important and Article 69 is clear in this regard.“We are ready for probe into the authenticity of the memo,” he said and rejected opposition’s remarks against those sitting in the foreign office and said that they were responsible people.He said that attorney general and Naeem Bokhari will present their arguments in the Supreme Court today. - Read More

Hawks arrest more than 80 people countrywide in probe into R21m Sassa fraud

The Hawks have arrested more than 80 people countrywide in connection with social grant fraud which saw social grant beneficiaries reimbursed more than R21 million.In February, the Hawks started investigating allegations that South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) funds were being diverted from beneficiaries' accounts."The allegations stated that around June 2018, when Sassa was issuing the new Sassa-South African Post Office (SAPO) bank cards, some pensioners and other Sassa grant beneficiaries never received their pensions and grants. - Read More

Satellite imagery shows bodies laid in Bucha streets for weeks, contradicting Russian claims

High-resolution satellite imagery from Maxar Technologies collected over Bucha, Ukraine, corroborates recent social media videos and photos that show bodies lying out in the streets for weeks."What has been done to this modern town is a characteristic of the Russian military, which treated humans worse than animals," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters during a visit to the town Monday."During the time that the town has been under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident has suffered from any violent action. - Read More

Ukraine girds for renewed Russian offensive on eastern front

Ukraine was bracing to battle for control of its industrial east and appealing for more help from the West after Russian forces withdrew from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup.Authorities were urging people to immediately evacuate from the Donbas region before Russia intensifies its offensive.“My agenda is very simple… it’s weapons, weapons and weapons,” Kuleba said as he arrived at NATO headquarters Thursday for talks with the military organization’s foreign ministers about Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. - Read More

House Refers 2 More Top Trump Aides For Criminal Contempt Of Congress Charges

Two more top aides to former President Donald Trump could face as much as a year in jail after the House referred them to the Justice Department on Wednesday for refusing to honor subpoenas from the Jan.“Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro must be held accountable for their abuses of the public trust.“Despite all of these specific warnings, President Trump and his team moved willfully, through multiple means, to attempt to halt the peaceful transfer of power, to halt the constitutional process for counting votes, and to shatter the constitutional bedrock of our great nation,” Cheney said, adding that the committee would rather hear from the two men than cite them for contempt. - Read More

Kyiv under siege: Images capture the chaos as civilians join fight in Ukraine’s capital

A wave of Russian troops broke on the concrete shores of Ukraine’s capital city as volunteers joined their national guard in a brutal street fight against Vladimir Putin’s invading army.On day two of the war, Kyiv residents woke to the shouldering ashes of an apartment building struck by missile fragments of a Russian attack, which was intercepted by Kyiv’s air defence system.A Russian 9K35 Strela-10 mobile short-range surface-to-air missile system separated from its unit rolled over a civilian car in the Obolon district in the city’s north. - Read More

‘Death come upon us’: Ukraine’s champion boxing brothers join Kyiv street fight

Dr Ironfist and Dr Steelhammer, Ukraine’s legendary heavyweight boxing brothers, have joined the brutal street fight raging in the streets of Kyiv.Martial law has been declared in Kyiv, where Klitschko, 50, has been mayor since 2014.The Hall of Fame boxing champions were known for their heavy-hitting, being nicknamed Dr Ironfist and Dr Steelhammer respectively. - Read More

Boris says biological men should not compete in female sports events

The prime minister also said that parents should have ‘involvement at the very least’ in decisions made by children to alter their gender.The government has been forced to cancel a landmark international LGBT+ conference in response to changes to a promised ban on all conversion therapy, after more than 100 charities pulled out.Speaking during a visit to a hospital in Welwyn Garden City, the PM said there are still things to be worked out, and that he was ‘sad’ at the reaction of the organisations involved. - Read More

Alex Jones sits for depositions in Sandy Hook case after paying $75,000 in fines

Infowars host Alex Jones completed two days of depositions in a defamation lawsuit filed by families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, court documents filed Wednesday show.She ordered him to pay daily fines amounting to tens of thousands of dollars for every day he didn't provide the sworn testimony.Jones sat for depositions on Tuesday and Wednesday, going "above and beyond" Bellis' order by sitting "beyond normal hours for the deposition to afford the plaintiffs’ counsel a full and fair opportunity to question him,” according to the filing from Jones' lawyer, Norm Pattis. - Read More

Puerto Rico plunged into darkness after power station fire

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A major power outage hit Puerto Rico late Wednesday, plunging nearly 350,000 customers into darkness after a fire erupted at one of the largest power plants in the U.The outage was one of the biggest in recent months for the island’s crumbling electrical grid, which has seen its periodic blackouts grow worse the last few years.“Apagón!” wrote many frustrated customers across social media, using the Spanish word for outage. - Read More

Hong Kong deputy chief says he plans to run for city’s top job

HONG KONG — Hong Kong Chief Secretary John Lee, a security official during the global financial hub’s prolonged and often violent 2019 pro-democracy protests, said on Wednesday he had resigned in a bid to run in an election in May to become the city’s new leader.Lee, 64, a former deputy commissioner of police, was promoted to the Chinese territory’s No.“I indicate in the letter the reason for my resignation is that if my resignation is approved by the Central People’s Government, I shall plan to prepare to stand for the upcoming chief executive election,” Lee said at a news conference. - Read More

William and Charles ‘very angry’ at Harry putting words in their mouths, expert says

Prince William and Prince Charles were left “very angry” by Prince Harry ’s suggestion that they felt “trapped” in the royal institution like he had, a royal expert has claimed.This came to a head after Harry and Meghan took part in an explosive interview with US chat show host Oprah Winfrey.Meghan suggested that an unnamed member of the royals had commented on the colour of their son Archie’s skin, while Harry admitted he had "felt trapped" and claimed that William 'cannot escape' his royal life. - Read More

Bulger killer Jon Venables' bid for freedom before new law could see his release blocked

Killer Jon Venables is making a fresh attempt to be released before law changes come into effect that could see his bid for freedom being blocked by ministers.Jon Venables, who at the age of 10 was one of two boys who murdered two-year-old Jamie Bulger, is applying for parole ahead of new legislation that could give ministers the power to block the release of dangerous criminals for public safety reasons.Venables, along with his accomplice Robert Thompson, was released in 2001 and given a new identity to enable him to live a normal life free from reprisals. - Read More

Inside Prince Philip's bond with Diana as Duke's one-year death anniversary nears

As Charles and Diana's marriage began to fall apart, Prince Philip, who died almost one year ago, pledged to "do his utmost" to help.Despite what biographies claim, Prince Philip remained on good terms with his daughter-in-law after she split from his son Prince Charles, according to letters written by the Duke himself.A previous biography of the Duke claimed the Princess of Wales warned her sons to "never shout at anyone the way Prince Philip does". - Read More

Carer isolating at home with Covid-19 killed, police say

Police believe a carer isolating at home with Covid-19 was killed, and they’ve launched a homicide inquiry. Val Heaney was found deceased in her home in Bromley, Christchurch on Monday evening. Police initially treated her death as “unexplained”, but in a statement on Thursday Detective Senior Sergeant Nicola Reeves said it was now being treated as a homicide. - Read More

The dilemma of Covid immunity: If now's not a good time to drop Omicron restrictions, when is?

Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins has suggested New Zealand could remain in the red traffic light until next summer. At the beginning of the Omicron outbreak the focus was on cases.But now there's a new element to consider – population immunity brought about by vaccination and infections – and it is having a “massive bearing” on New Zealand’s future. - Read More

The mystery of who paid a $12 parking ticket at the centre of a court case

This week Dunedin City Council confirmed to Stuff the ticket had actually been paid by an anonymous person.“We can confirm the parking ticket was paid by an anonymous third party who sent the Dunedin City Council an envelope containing $12,” a council spokesman said.The mystery payment came two months after Vandervis, who was the highest polling councillor at the 2019 local body elections, was censured by his own council following an investigation into the code of conduct complaint. - Read More

Major Sydney river set to exceed levels of 1988 disaster after a month's worth of rain falls in 24 hours

The Nepean River in Sydney's west is forecast to exceed the levels of the devastating floods in April 1988, the weather bureau has warned, as the city endures more record-breaking rainfall.A flood warning is in place for Menangle, Camden and Wallacia, the Bureau of Meteorology said.The Nepean River on Thursday evening was at 16. - Read More