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Alcatraz Island is now a major tourist site that is operate by the National Park Service and is a designated National Historic Landmark
Parameswaran Iyer's nomination was necessitated to fill a vacancy created with the termination of services of K.V. Subramanian as the executive director at the IMF
Ms. Sheinbaum added that she told Mr. Trump their two countries can work together, but you in your territory and us in ours.
Islamabad equested closed consultations on the tensions between the two countries and the Greek Presidency has scheduled the meeting for May 5 in the afternoon
Neither Mr. Lutnick nor Mr. Trump provided any details on the implementation. It was not immediately clear whether the move would target production companies, foreign or American, producing films overseas
Northumbria police said late on May 3 that 11 boys and three girls aged 11 to 14 had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar directed Pakistan's UN Permanent Representative Asim Iftikhar to take immediate steps to convene a meeting of the Security Council
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia May 710 at President Vladimir Putins invitation, the Kremlin confirmed Sunday
Australias re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday was greeted by well-wishers at a Sydney caf and said the country had voted for unity over division
As curbs on freedom of speech increase, what is the current state of press freedom worldwide? A day after World Press Freedom Day, we examine what the statistics say.
About 40 firefighters were on scene. With the flames out, they began working on salvage
Starbase is the facility and launch site for the SpaceX rocket program that is under contract with the Department of Defence and NASA that hopes to send astronauts back to the moon and someday to Mars
This was Mr. Wongs first election as prime minister of the global-business focused Singapore which now faces navigating through strong headwinds caused by tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump
The ruling party, which recently commemorated the 50th anniversary of the reunification of the country after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, draws legitimacy from both its historical role in liberation and ending occupation, and its continuing role as an economic moderniser
The attacks include criminal cases filed against 182 scribes, acts of violence against 206 others, and inquiries against another 85 by the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit
Mr. Dissanayake had ensured Sri Lanka's consistent position that its soil would not be allowed to be used for any anti-Indian activity so as to endanger its neighbours national security concerns.
Donald Trump had joked to reporters that he would like to be the next pope, just days before cardinals are due to start the conclave to elect the successor of Pope Francis
Despite U.S. President Donald Trumps overtures to Moscow, people there still feel that the American administration cannot be trusted. Kallol Bhattacherjee finds that even as global geopolitics is changing, and there are uncertainties in their lives, Moscovites continue to believe that the war with Ukraine is a war against NATO expansionism, and that Ukraines eastern Russian-speaking territory is rightfully theirs
The Duke of Sussex said that he was devastated to lose the case that was a source of friction with his 76-year-old father, who is being treated for an undisclosed cancer. Harry has met with him once briefly since his diagnosis early last year.
Former President Joe Biden had pledged to contribute $4 billion, but that money has not yet been transferred.
Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just six votes, as it picked up gains in other localities, including its first mayoralty.
Chinas Commerce Ministry says Beijing is evaluating multiple approaches by the Trump administration for trade talks
Identified by boatbuilder Incat as Hull 096, the aluminium catamaran is powered by more than 250 tonnes of batteries and was built for South American ferry operator Buquebus.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international non-governmental group, published video footage showing a fire on one of its ships, named the Conscience, and pointed the finger at Israel
The air force said it shot down 64 of them and another 62 drones did not reach their targets
North Korea confirmed for the first time that it had deployed troops to Russia to support Moscow in its war in Ukraine.
Heres a quiz on Vietnam which observed 50 years of the reunification of North and South on April 30
Observers say Han Duck-soo is expected to align with the People Power Party to launch a unified conservative campaign against liberal front-runner Lee Jae-myung
He is the countrys tenth NSA, but it is for the first time that a serving ISI chief was given the task to serve concurrently in the two key positions