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Chesnot/Getty Images (UNITED KINGDOM) — Bitcoin soared to a record high of more than $72,000 on Monday after a financial regulator in the United Kingdom gave the green light to a cryptocurrency-backed investment vehicle. Bitcoin hit $72,166 in early trading on Monday, just days after it surpassed a previous high of nearly $69,000 from November 2021. After crossing that […]
FILE photo — Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (SYDNEY) — A LATAM Airlines Group plane had a “technical problem” during a flight, causing what the airline described as a “a strong movement” after its departure from Sydney, Australia. At least seven passengers and three crew members were taken to a local […]
ABC News U.S. military crews have airlifted nonessential U.S. Embassy personnel in Haiti out of harm’s way amid a surge of gang-related violence against the government, according to a statement Sunday from the U.S. Southern Command. The U.S. military said it carried out the operation in Haiti to get some embassy personnel out of the […]
X/@KensingtonRoyal Kate, the Princess of Wales, issued a statement on Sunday thanking the public for their support in the months since she underwent surgery. “Thank you for your kind wishes and continued support over the last two months,” she said in a post on social media. The statement on Sunday — when the United Kingdom […]
ABC News (ISTANBUL) — Thousands of women took to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women’s Day Friday despite a ban by the government, demanding equality and change of laws to protect women and help them gain their rights in the country and around the world. Waving purple flags as a sign of […]
Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (GAZA) — Five children were allegedly killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said. Several Palestinian civilians were also injured in the airdrop, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, which called the […]
Daniel Day/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The European Union announced on Friday the launch of the Cyprus Maritime Corridor, a naval route facilitated by Europe’s most southeastern island, Cyprus, to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the corridor is a direct response to the […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — Armed bandits in Nigeria have kidnapped over 100 school children in Kuriga, north-western Nigeria, oaccording to officials. The bandits are reported to have stormed into the LEA Primary School in Kuriga town, Kaduna state, on Thursday seizing scores of pupils before marching them into the forest. The incident is reported to […]
Alfie/Getty (NEW YORK) — Sweden’s arduous path to joining the NATO alliance came to a successful close Thursday, as the Swedish prime minister and foreign minister deposited the country’s “instrument of accession” at the State Department in Washington. In a lighthearted ceremony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken posed for photos with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf […]
Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Planet Earth has now broken warmest-month records for nine months in a row, according to a new report by Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service. February 2024 broke global temperature records, rounding out the warmest winter on record in the Northern Hemisphere, from December 2023 through the end of […]
