Month: December 2024

Trump picks billionaire Landry’s chairman Tilman Fertitta as Italy ambassador

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Trump picks billionaire Landry’s chairman Tilman Fertitta as Italy ambassador

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Saturday (December 21, 2024) that he will nominate billionaire Houston Rockets pro basketball team owner Tilman Fertitta to be his administration’s ambassador to Italy. Also Read | Donald Trump Cabinet: From vaccine sceptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr to Elon Musk…

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Trump taps ’Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

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Trump taps ’Apprentice’ producer, Mark Burnett, as special envoy to the United Kingdom

File photo of television producer Mark Burnett and President-elect Donald Trump | Photo Credit: AP Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with The Apprentice, is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. “With a distinguished career in…

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U.S. military conducts precision airstrikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa

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U.S. military conducts precision airstrikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa

The U.S. military on Saturday (December 21, 2024) said it conducted precision airstrikes against a missile storage facility and a command-and-control facility operated by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. In a statement, the U.S. military’s Central Command said the strikes aimed to “disrupt and degrade Houthi operations, such as attacks against U.S. Navy warships…

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Pope calls Gaza airstrikes ‘cruelty’ after Israeli Minister’s criticism

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Pope calls Gaza airstrikes ‘cruelty’ after Israeli Minister’s criticism

Pope Francis delivers a Christmas message to Vatican workers in Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, on December 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Pope Francis on Saturday (December 21, 2024) again condemned Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, a day after an Israeli government minister publicly denounced the pontiff for suggesting the global community should study…

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Lara Trump withdraws from consideration to replace Rubio in U.S. Senate

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Lara Trump withdraws from consideration to replace Rubio in U.S. Senate

Lara Trump. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of President-elect Donald Trump, said on Saturday (December 21, 2024) she has removed her name from consideration to replace outgoing U.S. Senator Marco Rubio. Rubio was picked by Trump to serve as secretary of state. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will pick a replacement for Rubio,…

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38 people are dead and over 100 remain missing in Congo after a ferry capsizes in the river Busira

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38 people are dead and over 100 remain missing in Congo after a ferry capsizes in the river Busira

Thirty-eight people are confirmed dead, and over 100 remain missing in Congo after an overloaded ferry — full of people returning home for Christmas — capsized in the river Burisa late Friday night, according to local officials and eyewitnesses. The boat sank less than four days after another boat in the northeast of the country…

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Five killed in airstrike on house in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, medics say

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Five killed in airstrike on house in Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, medics say

A Palestinian inspects the damage at the site of an Israeli strike. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Five people, including two children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza strip, medics told Reuters on Saturday. Meanwhile, Gaza’s Health Ministry said there was ongoing intense…

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Seven Indians among around 200 injured in German Christmas market attack

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Seven Indians among around 200 injured in German Christmas market attack

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, centre, walks over a Christmas Market, where a car drove into a crowd on Friday evening, in Magdeburg, Germany, on December 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Seven Indians have been injured in the deadly car-ramming attack in the eastern German city of Magdeburg and the Indian embassy in Berlin is…

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