Shakira found out about ex Gerard Pique's 'betrayal' through media while dad William was in ICU: 'Everything happened at once'
This comes after Shakira sparked romance rumors with Lewis Hamilton, while her ex Gerard Pique, is reportedly set to get engaged to Clara Chia Marti
2023-06-27 14:52
Kim Cattrall set to make 'secret' comeback in 'And Just Like That' after years-long feud with Sarah Jessica Parker
Kim is all set to make a comeback as the confident Samantha Jones in ‘And Just Like That’ Season 2 after a years-long feud with ex-co-star Sarah Jessica Parker
2023-06-01 11:53
US economy 'hangs in the balance' as debt limit impasse drag on - Yellen
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON The standoff over the federal debt limit is already having dire consequences for the
2023-05-16 18:26
UK’s Financial Watchdog Says Fund Managers Need to Justify Fees
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority said asset managers need to justify the fees charged on their funds as
2023-08-10 20:17
Kylie Jenner Then and Now: Reality star's transformation through the years
From 'KUWTK' to 'Kylie Cosmetics', Kylie Jenner has reinvented herself several times over
2023-09-12 19:51
Nestlé Irish baby milk factory to close as China birth rate drops
500 jobs will be lost due to the closure of the Limerick based factory.
2023-10-19 03:23
Law and order and the economy are focus of the British government's King's Speech
Britain’s Conservative government is setting out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and measures to tame inflation and boost economic growth
2023-11-07 19:25
U.S. House Speaker McCarthy vows debt ceiling bill to become law
WASHINGTON The bipartisan debt ceiling bill will become law, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on
2023-05-31 21:49
Live lobsters, cases of wine and bulletproof carriages: Inside Kim Jong-un’s train to meet Putin
Kim Jong-un appears to have chosen his favoured means of transportation for his first journey outside North Korea in nearly four years – a lavishly adorned, heavily fortified and slow-moving train. Mr Kim reached Russia on Tuesday after boarding the train on Sunday. He was accompanied by top arms industry and military officials besides North Korea’s foreign minister. The green-coloured and armoured train carrying Mr Kim reached Khasan station, the main rail gateway to Russia’s far east that is about 127km south of Vladivostok, on Monday, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported, citing an unnamed Russian official source. Vladimir Putin and Mr Kim are expected to discuss arms shipments that could aid Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, in a regional summit taking place in Vladivostok. The trip has happened as Russia leans closer to the east Asian country even though Washington has warned against an arms deal. Few have travelled in the North Korean leader’s private train besides the isolated country’s political elite, but pictures posted in state media depict a train full of luxuries. The train cars are painted military green on the outside and have a yellow streak across the body. The interiors are glossy white, with long tables for meetings. Other pictures also show red leather armchairs. The train has conference rooms, audience chambers and bedrooms, with satellite phones and flat-screen televisions installed for briefings. “It was possible to order any dish of Russian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and French cuisine,” Russian official Konstantin Pulikovsky had recounted, while on a trip across Russia’s far east with Kim Jong Il in a book called Orient Express, the Washington Post had reported. The Russian official had said there were cases of Bordeaux and Burgundy wines and live lobsters. The travellers were reportedly entertained by live singers who were introduced as “lady conductors”. The train has a total of 90 rail cars, with some designed to carry vehicles as well. Reports say each carriage is bulletproof, making the train thousands of pounds heavier. The train is, hence, slow. The reduced speed of the train is frequently attributed to its substantial weight – a consequence of the additional armour incorporated into the train’s structure. Georgy Toloraya, another Russian diplomat who travelled with Kim Jong Il in 2001, said, during an examination of the train by Russian technicians, they discovered armoured sheets positioned beneath two primary railcars employed by the North Korean leader for both residential and official functions. The technicians reportedly also discovered that the railcars originated from the Soviet Union, but had undergone extensive modifications at some later date. According to a report by South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo, approximately 100 security agents are dispatched in advance to railway stations to conduct security sweeps for potential threats. Power is deliberately shut off at these stations to prevent other trains from departing. The report from 2009 also noted the presence of a substantial logistical support contingent, which includes Soviet-made Il-76 air force transport planes and Mi-17 helicopters. Read More North Korea’s Kim Jong-un arrives in Russia ahead of meeting with Putin – report Ukraine-Russia war – live: Kim Jong-un arrives in Russia in ‘absolute secrecy’ ahead of weapons talk with Putin Kim Jong-un heading for Russia by train ahead of weapons talks with Putin The Body in the Woods | An Independent TV Original Documentary The harrowing discovery at centre of The Independent’s new documentary
2023-09-12 16:24
Jenna Jameson gets married to girlfriend Jessi Lawless in intimate Las Vegas wedding ceremony, says 'I found the person'
Jenna Jameson and Jessi Lawless feel that though they are quite different, they form a good pair while Jameson proudly calls herself ‘Jessi’s Girl'
2023-06-09 07:28
Hunter Biden returns to court in Delaware and is expected to plead not guilty to gun charges
Hunter Biden is due back in a Delaware courtroom
2023-10-03 12:22
RFK Jr comes out against gun control and blames school shootings on ‘drugs’
Democratic presidential candidate and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F Kennedy Jr said during a Twitter Spaces event on Monday that he would not take away people’s guns as a solution to reducing mass shootings and instead pointed the finger at pharmaceutical drugs. “My position on the gun control is I’m not going to take away anybody’s guns,” Mr Kennedy, 69, said in response to a listener-submitted question about gun control while speaking about his political platform with Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks. “I’m a constitutional absolutist. We can argue about whether the Second Amendment was intended to protect guns. That argument has now been settled by the Supreme Court.” Instead, Mr Kennedy made unfounded claims that psychiatric drugs are linked to mass shootings, “There’s something happening in our country right now that is not happening anywhere, that has never happened in human history,” he said. “Guns, the proliferation, clearly, abets violence, but anybody who tells you that they can remove enough guns, AR-15s, by tinkering at the margins and get to the situation they have in western Europe is puling your leg,” he added. “It’s not going to happen.” According to researchers, there’s no evidence for a link between pharmaceutical drugs and mass shootings. Over 10 per cent of the US population takes anti-depressants, and experts say if such medicines were linked to violence, one would expect to see more shootings, and more shootings committed by groups who are prescribed the treatments at a higher rate. "If there was a connection or link, one would expect it to be pronounced, or at least much greater than we are seeing," Dr James Knoll, director of forensic psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University, told Politifact. "Why do we not see increased violence in women? People over 60?" In fact, according to a USA Today review of mass shootings, a minority of school shooters were prescribed medications. "I am unaware of any consistent, credible accounts that provide strong evidence regarding the prevalence of SSRI usage in cases involving school shootings or a causal relationship between SSRIs and school shootings," Daniel Mears, a professor of criminology at Florida State University, told the paper. Read More RFK Jr compares Elon Musk to American revolutionaries during conspiracy-driven Twitter event
2023-06-06 09:20
You Might Like...
Moderna, Pfizer say updated COVID shots generate strong response vs newer variant
2 men are on the run after breaking out of a Mississippi detention center. Last month, 4 others had escaped from the same facility
Haitian students play drums and strum guitars to escape hunger and gang violence
US deploys nuclear-armed submarine to South Korea in show of force against North Korea
Young Thug: US rapper's racketeering trials opens in Georgia
Tom Holland reveals his favorite ‘Spider-Man’ movie and it isn’t what you would expect
Democrats who swept Moms For Liberty off school board fight superintendent's $700,000 exit deal
Russia Oil-Export Revenues Drop on Sanctions, Cheaper Crude
