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LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry entered a courtroom witness field Tuesday, swearing to inform the reality in testimony in opposition to a tabloid writer he accuses of telephone hacking and different illegal snooping. ...

Pope Francis has gone to Rome's Gemelli hospital for a check-up.Earlier this 12 months the pope, 86, spent 5 days in hospital with a lung an infection and final month needed to skip audiences because of a fever. The Vatican has up to now not commented on the precise cause for his go to at this time.Over the weekend he delivered a midday prayer in St Peter's sq. within the Vatican.Pope Francis, who marked his tenth 12 months as pontiff in March, has suffered plenty of illnesses lately. In July 2021 he had a part of his colon eliminated in an operation geared toward addressing a painful bowel situation known as diverticulitis.The Vatican introduced plans on Saturday for Francis to go to Mongolia in late August and early September. On his go to to the nation ...

ON OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — An overwhelming sound of gunfire and males’s screams. That’s how World War II veteran Marie Scott described D-Day as ceremonies had been to honor those that fought for freedom within the largest naval, air and land operation in historical past. ...

Jim Hines, the primary man to interrupt the 10-second barrier for the 100 metres, has died aged 76.The American sprinter clocked 9.95 seconds when profitable gold within the occasion on the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, setting a world file which might stand for 15 years and an Olympic file that stood till 1988.He additionally received gold for the USA within the 4 x 100m relay.His loss of life was introduced on the Olympic Games' official web site on Monday.Calvin Smith broke Hines' 100m world file by operating a time of 9.93 seconds in Colorado in 1983. Image: Hines' file, set in Mexico in 1968, stood for 15 years. Pic: AP His Olympic file fell after Carl Lewis clocked 9.92 seconds on the Seoul Games in 1988.The present wor...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday obtained certainly one of New Zealand‘s highest honors for her service main the nation by way of a mass capturing and pandemic. ...

A dam within the Russian managed a part of southern Ukraine has been broken by an explosion, resulting in flooding within the space already hit by months of battle.Both Ukrainian and Russian officers blamed one another for destroying the Kakhovka dam within the Kherson area. Image: Pic: Ukrayinskyi Pivden/through REUTERS Ukraine's navy mentioned that Russian forces blew up the dam."The Kakhovka [dam] was blown up by the Russian occupying forces," the South command of Ukraine's armed forces mentioned on Tuesday on its Facebook web page. Please use Chrome browser for a extra accessible video participant 1:40 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. sanctioned a gaggle of Russian-intelligence-linked people Monday for his or her function in allegedly serving to the Kremlin destabilize Moldova’s democratically-elected authorities via protests in Moldova’s capitol earlier this 12 months. ...

A pilot was seen slumped over within the cockpit of a wayward airplane that crashed after flying over Washington DC - as fighter jets had been scrambled to intercept the plane. There had been no survivors discovered on the wreckage of the plane, which is claimed to have been carrying 4 folks. The airplane had set off from Elizabethton in Tennessee on Sunday, earlier than inexplicably turning round whereas making its approach over New York's Long Island.It had been heading for the island's MacArthur Airport, however as an alternative discovered itself over DC - together with a number of the most closely restricted airspace within the nation - earlier than crashing into mountainous terrain close to Montebello, Virginia.Fighter jets from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland had been d...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The dying toll from the heavy floods that hit Haiti over the weekend has risen to 42, with one other 11 individuals lacking, authorities stated Monday. ...

British scientists discovered an "incredibly rare" genetic mutation might have been answerable for the deaths of two kids after their mom, who was initially jailed for killing them, has now been pardoned.Kathleen Folbigg was convicted in Australia in 2003 of the murders of daughters Sarah and Laura and son Patrick, together with the manslaughter of one other son, Caleb. The 4 died individually over the course of a decade, aged between 19 days and 19 months previous. After her conviction, she was jailed for 30 years. But Folbigg, now 55, maintained her innocence and insisted that they had died of pure causes.Evidence found in 2018 that each daughters carried a uncommon CALM2 genetic variant was one of many causes that an inquiry was referred to as a close to later - however wh...