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The agency that owned the submersible Titan has suspended its business operations, it introduced on its web site.OceanGate stated it has "suspended all exploration and commercial operations" following the implosion of the car final month whereas on a voyage to the undersea wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Canada. The firm had deliberate two journeys to the ruins for June 2024 its web site confirmed.All 5 individuals on board have been killed, together with UK residents Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood, alongside OceanGate Expeditions' chief govt Stockton Rush and the submersible's pilot, French nationwide Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Image: (Clockwise from high left) Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Stockton Ru...

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Greece’s newly appointed protection minister on Thursday welcomed a deescalation of tensions within the japanese Mediterranean, expressing hope this is able to result in a “climate of trust” with out immediately referring to Turkey. ...

The UK is planning new powers to sanction Iran after not less than 15 "credible threats" to kill or kidnap individuals in Britain who're deemed as a menace by the regime, the overseas secretary has introduced.James Cleverly informed Sky News the proposed sanctions regime would give "us the tools to take further action in future if Iranian behaviour doesn't change". It is also utilized in response to different malign actions by Tehran, akin to the provision of weapons and ammunition to Russia for its warfare in Ukraine.Asked how frightened he was that it was solely a matter of time earlier than Iran succeeded in murdering a dissident on British soil, the overseas secretary stated: "What we have seen is Iran try to stifle dissenting voices, trying to silence criticism. ...

BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbia’s president on Thursday accused Kosovo of finishing up “silent ethnic cleansing” of Serbs and stated his nation will search a gathering with NATO’s chief and an pressing session of United Nations Security Council to demand their safety. ...

A 55-year-old Swedish man has been charged with fraud and falsifying data for allegedly placing his lifeless companion in a freezer and cashing in her pension.The Swedish Prosecution Authority stated the person, who was not named, carried out "systematic" fraud involving round 1.3m kronor (£93,000). He had advised investigators he put the Norwegian girl in a freezer after discovering her lifeless of their dwelling.The two lived in Arjang, round 211 miles west of the capital Stockholm.The man had advised household and associates the girl was nonetheless alive. "It must have been very stressful for family and friends to learn in this way that the woman had been dead for a long time," stated prosecutor Linda Karlsson."The man also used the freezer for other purposes, which I bel...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The United Arab Emirates pledged Thursday to offer $15 million to assist rebuild the Jenin refugee camp after probably the most intense Israeli army operation within the occupied West Bank in almost twenty years. ...

BEIJING (AP) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on Thursday for conferences with Chinese leaders as a part of efforts to revive relations which might be strained by disputes about safety, expertise and different irritants. ...

Belarusian chief Alexander Lukashenko has mentioned Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin is in Russia - and Vladimir Putin won't "wipe" him out. Mr Lukashenko mentioned Prigozhin could also be in St Petersburg or Moscow, and insisted he's "absolutely free", including his Wagner troops stay on the camps the place that they had stayed earlier than the group's aborted coup try final month. "As for Yevgeny Prigozhin, he is in St Petersburg where he is this morning, maybe he went to Moscow, maybe somewhere else but he's not in the territory of Belarus", Mr Lukashenko instructed reporters on Thursday.Ukraine battle newest:Prigozhin not in Belarus, says LukashenkoThe 62-year-old has not been seen in public since he was pushed out of the Russian metropolis of Rostov after he ordered h...

MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin is in St. Petersburg and his Wagner troops have remained on the camps the place they'd stayed earlier than a short-lived mutiny in opposition to Moscow, the president of Belarus mentioned Thursday. ...

An Australian guidelines footballer has turn out to be the primary feminine athlete to be recognized with the degenerative mind illness CTE in a landmark discovering for ladies's sport.Heather Anderson, who performed for Adelaide within the Australian Football League Women's competitors, took her personal life in November 2022 aged 28. Researchers on the Australian Sports Brain Bank (ASBB), co-founded by the Concussion Legacy Foundation, have since recognized Anderson as having had low-stage persistent traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and three lesions in her mind.The situation, which may solely be recognized posthumously, may cause reminiscence loss, despair and violent temper swings.It has been present in athletes, fight veterans, and others who've sustained repeated head tra...