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Life jacket worn by a passenger who survived the Titanic auctioned off for over $900,000
LONDON (AP) — A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,00 pounds ($906,000).The flotation device was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed ocean liner, and is signed by her and other survivors from the same lifeboat.
It was the star among items in a sale of Titanic memorabilia by Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes, western England, and sold to an unidentified telephone bidder for well over the presale estimate of between 250,000 and... Read More
Ukrainian police shoot and kill a gunman who killed at least 6 and took hostages in a supermarket
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A gunman who killed at least six people in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, before taking hostages and barricading himself inside a supermarket on Saturday has been shot and killed by police, Ukrainian officials said.Ukraine's special tactical police units stormed the store after attempts to contact the gunman with a negotiator failed, the head of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Ihor Klymenko, said in a statement on social media. The attacker was killed while resisting arrest, he said.
Speaking to reporters at the scene, Klymenko said that the gunman had... Read More
Trump signs bill extending controversial surveillance powers until April 30
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a bill extending a controversial surveillance program until April 30, a short-term renewal that sets up another showdown in Congress.The bill was approved by the Senate on Friday in a last-minute scramble to prevent the authority from expiring within a matter of days. Trump and Republican leaders have pushed for its renewal, calling it a matter of national security. Critics are concerned about its impact on civil liberties.
At the center of the debate is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance... Read More
While Trump lashes out at Spain, progressive leaders rally in Barcelona to defend democracy
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Progressive leaders from around the globe gathered in Barcelona on Saturday to try and galvanize their forces and defend the multilateral rules-based order in a world turning to the right and violently torn by superpowers.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump and the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, hosted two overlapping events about democracy and progressive politics at a convention center in Spain’s second-largest city.
While no foreign leader directly criticized Trump by name in public, the... Read More
Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people
LUANDA, Angola (AP) — Pope Leo XIV challenged Angola’s leaders to break the "cycle of interests” that have plundered and exploited Africa for centuries, as he arrived in the southern African country on Saturday with a message of encouragement for its long-suffering people.Leo's arrival in Angola, the oil-and-mineral rich former Portuguese colony, marked the third leg of his four-nation African voyage. En route from Cameroon, he spoke again of the ongoing back-and-forth with U.S. President Donald Trump over the Iran war.
Leo, history’s first U.S.-born pope, said... Read More
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- Ukrainian police shoot and kill a gunman who killed at least 6 and took hostages in a supermarket
- Pope Leo XIV challenges Angola's leaders while delivering a message of encouragement for its people
- Trump signs order to speed review of psychedelics, including the controversial drug ibogaine
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- Macron says a French soldier was killed and 3 were wounded in attack on peacekeepers in Lebanon
- Trump's dyslexia barbs stir anguish and anger, perpetuating a myth about the learning disability
- Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again over US blockade and fires on ships
- Pope Leo XIV says ânot in my interest at allâ to debate Trump but will keep preaching peace
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