A Dutch court Friday handed a life sentence to a man who shot dead three people and set fire to a Rotterdam hospital during a rampage that sparked pandemonium and shocked the country.He set fire to their house and then headed to the hospital, bursting into a classroom and shooting dead a 43-year-old teacher.
Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will appear in court on Friday to face murder and terror charges in his New York state case.
European and Asian markets rose on Friday, with Hong Kong leading the way thanks to a surge in tech stocks led by e-commerce titan Alibaba.Asian equities led gains, with Shanghai rising and Hong Kong piling on more four percent to hit a three-year high fuelled by tech firms.
French President Emmanuel Macron said he intends to tell Donald Trump that it's in the joint interest of Americans and Europeans not to “be weak” in the face of Russia's Vladimir Putin amid U.S.-led negotiations to end the almost three-year war in Ukraine. Macron is to travel to Washington to meet with Trump on Monday, the White House said.
The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the late-night debate encompassed so much more. Democrats used the overnight session that ended early Friday morning as a platform for their outrage over what President Donald Trump has wrought during his first month in office, and their warnings of what is still to come. From the billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency slicing through the federal workforce to Trump’s attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the GOP plan to extend tax breaks including for the wealthy and cut safety net programs, far more than the $340 billion budget framework on border security and deportations came under scrutiny.
Hundreds of students and activists rallied in some major cities for more "Dark Indonesia" protests on Friday, opposing President Prabowo Subianto's policies including $19 billion of spending cuts that they say undermine their support systems. Dressed in black as the sky darkened and rain started falling, the crowd gathered in streets near the presidential palace in the capital Jakarta, carrying posters that read "the government consists of dumb people" and invoking Prabowo's beloved "first cat", saying if it could speak it would join the protests. Friday's protest follows several similar demonstrations in some major cities this week.
Elon Musk's DOGE team has slashed hundreds of jobs paid for by fees from banks, medical device companies and other forms of funding rather than taxpayer dollars, raising the question of whether the cuts will render hoped for savings. Most of around 200 Food and Drug Administration employees fired over the weekend held jobs that were paid for by fees charged to medical device makers under a 2002 law, according to former employees and sources familiar with the matter, depleting staff needed to approve medically necessary products like stents and implants for consumers. Overall, the FDA has around 20,000 workers.
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The Trump administration is reportedly laying off thousands of IRS employees right in the middle of the tax filing season.
Wall Street strategists argue that the market may still be underpricing the risk of broad tariffs from the Trump administration.
Sweden’s gastronomy is wide-ranging, reflecting its large north-to-south expanse and four distinct seasons. From savory favorites like meatballs to sweet treats including Princess cakes and cinnamon buns, here are the tastiest.
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A plane carrying more than 170 Venezuelan migrants who were held in Guantanamo Bay after being deported from the US arrived in Venezuela on Thursday, according to CNN sources.
Israel says it has identified two of the dead bodies returned by Hamas on Thursday as Ariel and Kfir Bibas – but tests show another body that was expected to be that of their mother Shiri is not hers – and does not match any other Israeli hostage.
China issued a warning Friday of potential "live fire" naval drills in international waters off Australia's eastern coast but gave little prior notice, disrupting commercial air flights, the Australian government said.Australia's air safety agency warned commercial flights to alter their course after receiving "reports of live firing in international waters".
The U.S. Senate passed a Republican bill promoting President Donald Trump's immigration, energy and defense policies in the early hours of Friday morning, despite Trump's preference for a House of Representatives version of the bill that would include trillions of dollars in tax cuts. The Senate's narrower resolution, which marks Republicans' most sweeping legislative win since Trump took office, orders Congress to spend more money on defense and Trump's hardline immigration and border security policies, while also encouraging more development of fossil fuels.
Myanmar handed over 300 Chinese scam centre workers to be repatriated through Thailand on Friday, as authorities intensify a crackdown on the illegal operations.Myanmar's junta said in a statement that a second group of 300 Chinese nationals was handed over on Friday via the Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge 2 at the Thai border town of Mae Sot.
Elon Musk compared Trump's mass firings to Clinton-era federal streamlining, but the architect of Clinton's plan says they're very different.
Israeli specialists said one of the four bodies handed over by Hamas on Thursday was not Shiri Bibas, whose two sons, Kfir and Ariel were handed over.
Americans are weathering the worst flu season in years, as a number of other respiratory illnesses circulate too, such as COVID-19, RSV and the common cold.
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