NewsAFP NewsDestroyed dam likely to hinder Ukraine before Russia
The gaping hole blasted into a key hydroelectric dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday will severely impede Kyiv's efforts to reconquer territory lost to Russia, even if Moscow risks seeing its defensive lines submerged.Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of having "undermined the dam", one of the largest in Ukraine.
NewsHuffPostJudge In Parkland School Shooting Trial Is Rebuked For Bias By Commission
Judge Elizabeth Scherer violated several rules of judicial conduct during the trial of Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz, the Judicial Qualifications Commission said.
NewsHuffPostDHS Launches Major Effort To Stem Human Trafficking In Indigenous Communities
The agency is partnering with the National Indian Gaming Commission to train workers to detect and report the crime, which heavily impacts Native women.
NewsAFP NewsForced to evacuate Kherson, locals rage at Russians
Ukrainians cursed Russia and voiced fears for the future Tuesday as water from the breached Kakhovka dam partially flooded the southern city of Kherson, threatening their homes.Standing with neighbours beside the swollen Dnipro River, which flows down from the dam into the city, Iryna has been forced to leave home.
NewsAFP NewsCIA knew of Ukraine plan to blow up Nord Stream pipeline: report
A European spy agency told the CIA it knew of a Ukraine special operations team plan to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipeline three months before explosions damaged the undersea system last year, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.The leaked documents indicated that an unnamed European intelligence body told the US spy agency in June 2022, four months after Russia invaded Ukraine, that Ukraine military divers reporting directly to the country's military commander-in-chief were planning the atta
NewsHuffPostU.S. Hits New Atmospheric Carbon Record, While Wildfires Blanket Continent In Smoke
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are now more than 50% higher than the average before the industrial era.
PoliticsHuffPostRight-Wing Backlash To Kevin McCarthy’s Debt Ceiling Deal Yet To Materialize
So much for the Republican “reckoning” over the House speaker’s collab with President Joe Biden.
BusinessAFP NewsOil slips after Saudi-driven rally; equities edge higher
Oil prices slid Tuesday as dealers mulled the weak demand outlook after having rallied the previous day on output cuts from key crude producer Saudi Arabia.Europe's Brent oil contract and US counterpart WTI crude fell more than two percent before trimming losses, one day after bouncing on news that Riyadh slashed daily output by one million barrels for July in a bid to prop up prices.
NewsAFP NewsClimate: Battle lines harden over how to slash CO2
Banish fossil fuels, capture their emissions, pull CO2 from thin air -- diplomats in Bonn for UN-led climate talks agree there's too much planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but remain at loggerheads on the best way to reduce it.There are three ways to deal with the problem, intervening at different points in the CO2 "value chain" from source to tailpipe: stop burning fossil fuels, by far the main driver of warming; if you do burn them, stop carbon pollution from seeping into the ai
NewsHuffPostWith Big Promises Still Unfulfilled, State Department Diversity Chief Leaves Post
President Joe Biden asked Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley to reform an agency known as “pale, male and Yale.” But diplomats say not much changed.
NewsHuffPostTexas Sheriff Calls For Criminal Charges Over Migrant Flights Organized By Ron DeSantis
California is also probing whether the Florida governor was behind migrant flights that landed in Sacramento without notice over the past week.
NewsAFP NewsUNESCO hails $2.9-bn Australian plan to protect Great Barrier Reef
The UN's cultural agency UNESCO welcomed on Tuesday commitments from Australia to protect the Great Barrier Reef, with the government pledging 4.4 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to safeguard the natural wonder. In a letter sent to UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay last week, Plibersek also pledged "combined investment of 4.4 billion Australian dollars" ($2.9 billion) from the state Queensland and federal governments to protect the reef.
NewsReutersTribunal quashes India market regulator's order cancelling Brickwork Ratings' licence
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had canceled the license of the rating agency in October in a case of alleged violation of laws applicable for rating agencies. The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT), which hears appeals against orders passed by SEBI, said violations by Brickwork Ratings "were not deliberate or fraught with malafides or fraud and therefore cannot result in the cancellation of the license". The tribunal, however, partly affirmed the regulator's findings of alleged violations and referred the matter back to SEBI for imposing appropriate penalties.
NewsAFP NewsFrench left in last-ditch bid to derail pensions overhaul
French trade unions organised another day of strikes and demonstrations on Tuesday to try to derail President Emmanuel Macron's pensions overhaul, insisting that the fight to thwart the changes is not over even after it became law."It's going to be another big day in the history of the trade union movement," the new head of the hard-left CGT union, Sophie Binet, told BFM television on Tuesday.
NewsAFP NewsBulgaria parliament approves pro-European government, ending deadlock
Bulgarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a new pro-European government put forward by We Continue the Change (PP) and the centre-right GERB party, ending a two-year-long impasse marked by five elections.In May, Gabriel -- tasked by the conservative GERB party to lead negotiations -- alongside the PP-DB coalition announced a power-sharing government with rotating prime ministers.
BusinessReutersIndia cenbank says banks can offer NDF contracts to resident Indians for hedging
India's central bank has issued rules allowing banks to offer non-deliverable forward contracts involving the rupee to resident Indians. These contracts can be issued to non-retail residents for hedging purposes and settled in Indian rupees, the Reserve Bank of India said in a notification. For contracts with a person resident outside India, the settlement can be in Indian rupees or any foreign currency, it said.
BusinessReutersCrypto stocks drop after US SEC sues Coinbase for failing to register
(Reuters) -Shares of Coinbase Global fell on Tuesday and were on track for their biggest one-day percentage decline since late March after the cyrptocurrency exchange found itself in the crosshairs of the U.S. securities regulator along with Binance. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Coinbase, accusing it of illegally operating without registration with the regulator. In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, the SEC said Coinbase has since at least 2019 operated as an unregistered broker by handling cryptocurrency transactions, evading the disclosure requirements meant to protect investors.
NewsAFP NewsUN climate chief hails 'unique insights' of embattled COP28 head
The UN's top climate official hailed the "unique insight" of a UAE oil executive whose naming as president of the key COP28 climate summit has outraged advocates and experts.Reaction to host United Arab Emirates' appointment of al-Jaber in January as president of the COP28 summit in December has caused a furor among green groups and climate experts, as well as calls for him to step aside.
NewsAFP NewsPope in hospital for tests, two months after bronchitis infection
Pope Francis visited a Rome hospital for a medical check-up on Tuesday, the Vatican said, just over two months after he was hospitalised with bronchitis.When Francis was hospitalised at the end of March, the Vatican initially said in a one-line statement that he had gone into the Gemelli for health checks that were previously scheduled.
NewsAFP NewsUkraine slams 'terrorist state' Russia at top UN court
Ukraine branded Russia a "terrorist state" at the UN's top court on Tuesday, accusing Moscow of blowing up a major dam as part of a campaign to wipe it off the map.Russia's invasion was now "trying to wipe us from the map" completely, said Korynevych.
LifestyleHuffPostMy Girlfriend And I Went To A Sex Party. In The Middle Of An Orgy, I Realized I'm Not Straight.
"The biggest question for me was what did this mean about my sexuality? What did that mean for me and Ella? Would we break up?"
NewsHuffPostIdaho Student Killings: 11 Rumors, Debunked Theories and Eyebrow-Raising Reporting
With the sweeping gag order and no preliminary hearing ahead of Bryan Kohberger’s murder trial, people fill in the vacuum of information with theories and “scoops” from anonymous sources.
NewsHuffPostThousands Gather Outside Colorado Capitol Calling On Governor To Ban All Guns
The event’s organizers specifically called on white women to join the sit-in to leverage their “privilege and their power.”
NewsAFP NewsTear gas, arrests at Kenya protest over tax hike plans
Kenyan police fired tear gas and arrested 11 protesters, AFP journalists said, during a march in Nairobi on Tuesday against a new finance bill that critics say will pile more economic hardship on ordinary people.Police fired several volleys of tear gas and arrested 11 people, bundling them into a police truck, to try to disperse the demonstration, AFP journalists at the scene said.
NewsReutersIndia train crash: Family hopes DNA test will help claim for body
BHUBANESWAR, Odisha, India (Reuters) -Mohammed Imam Ul Haq has been struggling to find his missing brother and to claim his nephew's body from the many corpses lying in city hospitals following India's worst train accident in two decades on Friday. Haq's brother and two nephews were on the Coromandel Express, one of the three trains that crashed into each other in the Balasore district of the eastern state of Odisha. For Haq, from the eastern state of Bihar, the tragedy is two-fold.
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