Britain has imposed a travel ban and an asset freeze on Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos under its global anti-corruption sanctions regime, the British government said on Thursday. Dos Santos, whose father Jose Eduardo dos Santos ruled Angola for 38 years until 2017, has faced corruption accusations in Angola and elsewhere for years. The government said dos Santos misappropriated more than 50 million pounds ($63.19 million) for her own financial benefit while she run Angolan state oil firm Sonangol.
A New York City urologist was handed a life sentence Wednesday after previously being convicted of the yearslong sexual abuse of patients, some of whom were minors.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the 13-month-old war between Israel and Hamas has surpassed 44,000, local health officials said Thursday. The Gaza Health Ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count, but it has said that more than half of the fatalities are women and children. The Israeli military says it has killed over 17,000 militants, without providing evidence.
A 30-year-old man was killed by rocket shrapnel next to a playground in the northern Israeli town of Nahariya on Thursday, Israel's MDA medical service said. The Israeli military said about 10 rockets had been launched from Lebanon towards Nahariya. "Most of the projectiles were intercepted and fallen projectiles were identified," the IDF said in a statement.
The Department of Justice is calling for Google to divest its Chrome browser, following a ruling in August that the company holds a monopoly in the search market.
A spike in electricity demand from the world's big data providers is raising a worrying possibility for the world's climate: a near-term surge in fossil-fuel use. Utilities, power regulators and researchers in a half-dozen countries told Reuters the surprising growth in power demand driven by the rise of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is being met in the near-term by fossil fuels like natural gas, and even coal, because the pace of clean-energy deployments is moving too slowly to keep up. In the United States, home to a third of world data centers, utilities are adding new gas plants and delaying the retirements of fossil-fuel power plants as a slew of sprawling new data centers plug in to the grid.
At a rave in a former silk factory in Kyiv, Bogdana Lukyanchuk was out partying for the first time since her father was killed fighting Russian forces in eastern Ukraine.Fourteen-year-old Yury was just a toddler when Russian-backed forces launched a first armed aggression in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The Danish military confirmed Thursday it was monitoring a Chinese bulk carrier that was reportedly in the area where two undersea data cables ruptured in recent days in the Baltic Sea. Finnish, Swedish and German authorities have launched investigations into the rupture earlier this week of two undersea cables — one between Finland and Germany, the other between Lithuania and Sweden. All are member countries of the NATO alliance.
Inside Susan Smith’s car pulled from the bottom of a South Carolina lake in 1994 were the bodies of her two young boys, still strapped in their car seats, along with her wedding dress and photo album.
Four of Donald Trump's administration picks — Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk — have been accused of sexual misconduct.
There are many reasons for Mexico to worry about a President Trump. But it has considerable leverage and both countries need good ties.
Past a pawn shop and thrift store in the working-class section of Socorro, New Mexico, Jose Benavidez stood on the porch of his trailer and said he voted for Donald Trump because he had "nothing to lose." The 49-year-old car mechanic hopes that Trump can ease poverty and a fentanyl crisis in Socorro and its surrounding county of the same name, which this month backed a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in 36 years. "He said I'll have more money in my pocket this time," said Benavidez, who is currently unable to work and gets disability payments.
Donald Trump’s return to power is creating a reality television-like competition for attention among a group of black-robed candidates – some of whom may hope to one day wind up on the Supreme Court.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration says that less fentanyl is present in the nation’s illicit pill supply and that it’s helping drive overdose deaths down in the United States. But experts say that there are limitations to this claim and that many other factors are probably playing a role.
Greece saw a change in its main opposition party on Thursday after a wave of defections from the leftist Syriza party opened the door for the centre-left PASOK to challenge the dominance of rightist Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The opposition shift will revive a more traditional battle for the political centre that dominated Greek politics before a 2009-18 debt crisis triggered years of social and political instability. Months of infighting and a leadership struggle have left Syriza with 29 lawmakers, two fewer than PASOK, in the 300-seat parliament.
An ambitious project launched in 2016 has made a dent in one of biology’s greatest challenges — with more than 3,600 researchers profiling more than 100 million cells.
A fresh draft of a climate pact unveiled Thursday at COP29 failed to break an impasse between nations, with negotiators racing against the clock to broker a trillion-dollar finance agreement.COP29 hosts Azerbaijan said a "shorter" draft would be unveiled Thursday evening and would "contain numbers".
John Prescott, Britain's longest-serving deputy prime minister who died on Wednesday, was indispensable to Tony Blair's New Labour government, a working-class trailblazer who connected with the public in ways most politicians cannot. Even after punching an egg-throwing protester during an otherwise carefully-scripted 2001 election campaign, Prescott, who died of Alzheimer's aged 86, weathered criticism saying he had just defended himself - an episode that earned him the nickname "two jabs". Born in Wales, Prescott was the bridge who kept Labour's traditional trade union supporters on side while its modernisers, former prime ministers Blair and Gordon Brown, shifted the party to the centre ground to help it win three election victories after nearly two decades in opposition.
Governments including the European Union, Canada and Mexico said they will set "ambitious" new targets for cutting their greenhouse gas pollution by 2035.
India's Adani Group on Thursday called US charges that their billionaire tycoon founder Gautam Adani had paid more than $250 million in bribes "baseless", as the opposition leader demanded his arrest."We demand that Adani be immediately arrested.
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