Новости за 24.02.2024

At least one member of the Republican National Committee is working to slow Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of the organization. Mississippi committeeman Henry Barbour is pushing to keep the committee neutral until Trump is officially the presidential nominee and block it from paying his legal bills. The effort comes after Trump last week publicly called to install one of his senior campaign advisors and his daughter-in-law Lara Trump in top roles. Lara Trump suggested earlier in the week that... Читать дальше...

Queen drummer Roger Taylor wants to be a real estate champion. He is attempting to sell his 1933 Hollywood Hills hacienda.

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A court in Cyprus has ordered two men to remain in police custody for six days on suspicion of people smuggling. The men were identified as the drivers of two boats that brought 146 Syrian refugees and one Lebanese migrant to the east Mediterranean island nation. Police said Saturday the suspects are Lebanese nationals aged 19 and 21. According to police, the refugees said during questioning that they departed from the Lebanese city of Tripoli on Thursday, Feb. 22 and each paid $2,500 for a place aboard the boats. Читать дальше...

ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Iraq's authorities have captured two members of the Islamic State group in an operation outside the country and brought them home, where they confessed to committing crimes during the rule of the extremist organization, the intelligence department said Saturday.

An Illinois judge who sparked outrage by reversing a man’s rape conviction involving a 16-year-old girl has been removed from the bench after a judicial oversight body found he circumvented the law and engaged in misconduct. The Illinois Courts Commission removed Adams County Judge Robert Adrian from the bench Friday after sustaining a complaint filed against him. Adrian had in October 2021 found a then 18-year-old Michigan man guilty of sexual assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a May 2021 graduation party. Читать дальше...

Since Netflix launched into original films, the streaming service has been an annual force in Hollywood’s awards season. On Saturday, at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, it will play host, too. The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards will for the first time stream live on Netflix, beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern. The ceremony should find a much larger audience than it has in recent years — and not just because it presents another battle between “Oppenheimer” and “Barbie,” the lead nominees. This time, the... Читать дальше...

Global Forecast as of 18:00 GMT Saturday, February 24, 2024

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City/Town, Country;Saturday's Weather Condition;Saturday's High Temp (F);Saturday's Low Temp (F);Sunday's Weather Condition;Sunday's High Temp (F);Sunday's Low Temp (F);Sunday's Wind Direction;Sunday's Wind Speed (MPH);Sunday's Humidity (%);Sunday's Chance of Precip. (%);Sunday's UV Index

Abidjan, Ivory Coast;Sunny intervals;90;79;Mostly sunny;91;78;S;9;76%;48%;11

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates;Sunshine and nice;82;67;Clouds and sun... Читать дальше...

Millions of Californians could get cash from a San Diego trial over license plates.

One person has been killed and three others injured in a Massachusetts house fire. Middleborough fire and police departments were called to a house fire in town with people trapped inside. With fire coming from the first and second floor, firefighters were unable to get inside the home. After the fire was contained, authorities found a juvenile female dead inside. An adult female was transported to a Rhode Island hospital with burns while an adult male and another juvenile female were transported... Читать дальше...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A court in Tunisia sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia as part of the country's crackdown on opponents of President Kais Saied.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the achievements of his ruling African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May’s election. Ramaphosa delivered the party’s manifesto to thousands of ANC supporters at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The rally came as South Africa faces increasing poverty, unemployment and crime and a crippling electricity crisis. Party supporters dressed in yellow... Читать дальше...

Officials say six members of a religious congregation in Haiti and a teacher have been kidnapped while gathered in front of a school in the capital. The members are men from the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart. Religious officials said in a statement Friday that the school where the kidnapping occurred has temporarily closed. The congregation criticized what it called the “absurd and unjustified” violence that has gripped Haiti for many years and noted that no one is spared.

A new report found bedbugs at four Las Vegas resorts.

Authorities in the eastern Caribbean say they are trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada. The Royal Grenada Police Force said in a statement posted Friday that they are working on leads “that suggest” the two occupants of the yacht may have been killed. Police said they have dispatched senior investigators and a forensic specialist to the nearby island of St. Vincent where the escaped prisoners were arrested on Wednesday. Читать дальше...

An aide to Alexei Navalny says the body of the Russian opposition leader has been handed over to his mother. The director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation made the announcement on his Telegram account and thanked “everyone” who had called on Russian authorities to return Navalny’s body to his mother. Navalny’s widow accused President Vladimir Putin earlier Saturday of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in an Arctic penal colony.... Читать дальше...

A New Jersey man has been acquitted in a retrial in the beating death of a college student from Tennessee a decade ago. Jurors in Middlesex County deliberated for five hours before acquitting Timothy Puskas of all charges Wednesday in the 2014 death of 22-year-old former Rutgers student William McCaw. McCaw had been walking home from a party before his body was found in deep snow in a New Brunswick backyard. Puskas was convicted in 2017 and sentenced to 40 years, but a state appeals court overturned the conviction in 2021... Читать дальше...

More than two dozen people gathered at an Oklahoma church for a vigil for Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died one day after a fight in a high school bathroom. The vigil Friday night at All Saints Episcopal Church in McAlester was one of two in Oklahoma, the first of more than a dozen scheduled nationwide. Organizer Matt Blancett with the LGBTQ+ group McAlester Rainbow Connection, told KOKI-TV, that it was important hold a vigil in McAlester because of the 2020 murder of a transgender man. Читать дальше...

The former employee worked at Red Lobster for 11 years. 

West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has lifted travel, commercial and economic sanctions imposed on Niger which were aimed at reversing the coup staged in the country last year. A senior official announced at the bloc's meeting on Saturday that the sanctions are being lifted with immediate effect while individual sanctions targeted at the coup leaders would remain. The summit comes at a critical time when the 49-year-old bloc’s future is threatened. It is currently struggling with possible... Читать дальше...

West Africa's ECOWAS bloc says it's lifting sanctions imposed on Niger over last year’s coup in a new push for dialogue.

The body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed over to his mother, Navalny's aide says.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Fair by angry farmers who blame him for not doing enough to support them. Several dozen protesters forced their way through security barriers on Saturday before the event’s official opening. They entered the site as the president was arriving. French farmers have been protesting for months across the country and in Paris to demand better living conditions, simpler regulations and better... Читать дальше...

Warren Buffett credited his longtime partner — the late Charlie Munger — with being the architect of the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate he’s received the credit for leading and warned shareholders in his annual letter not to listen to Wall Street pundits or financial advisors who urge them to trade often. Buffett also recounted how Berkshire’s insurance businesses thrived last year, but its massive utilities and BNSF railroad disappointed. He also told shareholders how he never plans to sell its... Читать дальше...

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