It was supposed to be a regular campaign stop, said photographer Brendan McDermid. On a hot, humid day in July he was in Butler, Pennsylvania, covering a rally by U.S. Republican presidential candidate and eventual election winner Donald Trump. A few minutes into Trump's speech, McDermid heard a hiss, followed by several more, which he recognized instantly as gunfire.
A controversial legislation submitted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to change India's voting system failed to pass Tuesday in the country's lower house of Parliament. Law minister, Arjun Ram Meghwal, presented the legislation which proposed allowing elections for state assemblies and the national parliament to be held simultaneously. The government says simultaneous polls will result in higher economic growth and pave the way for better governance as they will reduce the frequency of election campaigns and expenses and allow politicians to focus on their work.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is recommending sweeping changes to cut off support for electric vehicles, according to a document seen by Reuters.
A group of Wisconsin police officers had planned to spend Monday training to care for victims of mass trauma events when late in the morning a student in second grade called 911 to report an active shooting at a nearby school in east Madison.
German and French officials are due to meet representatives of Syria's new governing authorities in Damascus on Tuesday, expanding Western contacts with the new administration after British diplomats met its leader Ahmed al-Sharaa late on Monday. Nine days after Bashar al-Assad was ousted, Western states are gradually opening channels to the new authorities in Damascus led by the Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, though they continue to designate it a terrorist group.
In a war-ravaged Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, Radwan Adwan was stacking stones to rebuild his father's grave, finally able to return to Yarmuk cemetery after Bashar al-Assad's fall."Without the fall of the regime, it would have been impossible to see my father's grave again," said 45-year-old Adwan.
Russian prosecutors have demanded prison terms of nearly six years each for three lawyers who represented Alexei Navalny, an ally of the late opposition leader said on Tuesday. Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser are accused of taking part in an extremist organisation. Navalny, who died suddenly in an Arctic penal colony in February, was himself convicted of extremism and other charges, all of which he denied.
The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv -- the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on. - 'Banned chemical weapons' - There have been assassinations on Russian territory before, but such attacks in Moscow -- where fighting in Ukraine often feels distant -- are rare.
A Russian general who was wanted by Ukraine for using chemical munitions was killed by a remotely detonated bomb in Moscow on Tuesday, Russian authorities said.
Japan wants renewables to be its top power source by 2040 in its push to become carbon neutral by mid-century, under government plans unveiled on Tuesday.Resource-poor Japan "will aim to maximise the use of renewable energy as our main source of power", according to the draft Strategic Energy Plan.
Taiwan is in talks with Amazon about collaborating for the company's new Kuiper broadband internet constellation of satellites, the island's technology minister said on Tuesday, as the government seeks to build communication resilience. Taipei has been looking at plans to preserve communications if China attacks, including satellites in medium and low Earth orbit for internet services, similar to Ukraine's use of Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service.
After backing the rebels who overthrew Bashar al-Assad and brokering a key Horn of Africa peace deal, Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan has boosted his international standing, leaving him well-placed to mediate between Russia and Ukraine, analysts say. In another boost for Erdogan's international standing, Turkey's role in the Syria upheaval won praise on Monday from president-elect Donald Trump.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will take part in a summit of big Muslim countries in Egypt on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said, the first visit by an Iranian president to Egypt in more than a decade. Egypt is hosting the summit of the D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, which also includes Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it has finalized $406 million in government grants to Taiwan's GlobalWafers to significantly increase production of silicon wafers in the United States. The funds for projects in Texas and Missouri will establish the first high-volume U.S. production of 300-mm wafers for advanced semiconductors and expand production of silicon-on-insulator wafers, the Commerce Department said. The wafers are a crucial component of advanced semiconductors and part of the Biden administration's efforts to boost the domestic chips supply chain.
CNN’s Bill Weir journeyed to Argentina to spend time with conservationist and former Patagonia CEO Kristine Tompkins as her team reached a milestone years in the making: rewilding a wild female jaguar in the hopes of reviving a lost population.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are now locked in a simultaneous battle to advance AI and prevail in a courtroom fight over the future of OpenAI, the organization they founded together before parting ways.
A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Tuesday, smashing buildings in the capital Port Vila including one used by foreign embassies, with a witness telling AFP of bodies lying in the city.The ground floor of a four-storey concrete block in Port Vila used by the US, French and other embassies was flattened, AFP photos showed.
China on Tuesday said claims that a businessman had used his links with Britain's Prince Andrew to spy for Beijing were "preposterous", after the UK government voiced mounting concerns over the allegations.Details emerged last week about Andrew's relationship with Yang Tengbo, a businessman and alleged spy, who had been banned from Britain.
Germany plans talks with representatives of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Damascus on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said, joining the United States and Britain in establishing contact with the Islamist group after it led the overthrow of Syria's Bashar al-Assad. German diplomats' first talks with representatives of the HTS-appointed interim government will focus on a transitional process for Syria and the protection of minorities, a spokesperson for the German foreign ministry said.
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