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WORLD NEWS · 14. agosto 2020
Police have charged a 25-year-old man with first-degree murder after they say he shot and killed a 5-year-old boy last week in Wilson, North Carolina. Austin Hinnant told CNN affiliate WRAL he was inside the home when his son, Cannon, was playing outside and was shot. Hinnant says he ran outside and scooped up the injured child and held him in his arms. "I screamed 'somebody help me, please help me save my son,'" he said.
WORLD NEWS · 05. agosto 2020
Lebanon is in mourning and surveying the damage to its capital Beirut after a massive explosion ripped through the city’s port and surrounding areas on Tuesday, killing at least 100 people and injuring 4,000 with many still feared to be trapped under rubble. In a country already reeling from an economic crisis, the full scale of the calamity became apparent as the city woke on Wednesday morning, with rescue teams searching through the debris of ruined neighbourhoods for the missing, and...
WORLD NEWS · 04. agosto 2020
Chinese state media labeled the U.S. a “rogue country” and dubbed the potential sale of social media firm TikTok to Microsoft as “theft,” adding that Beijing could retaliate if a deal is sealed. Microsoft announced plans on Sunday to acquire TikTok’s business in certain markets — the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Commenting on the matter, President Donald Trump said that buying only part of the app will be “complicated”— but he still gave Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...
WORLD NEWS · 31. luglio 2020
Un anno fa l’inviato di Striscia la notizia Vittorio Brumotti, contattato dai cittadini esasperati, era a Piacenza per documentare lo spaccio di droga in pieno giorno. Durante le riprese venne minacciato da un pusher in un modo che oggi, dopo lo scandalo della caserma Levante, appare molto meno paradossale di allora: “Ti denuncio”, urlò con arroganza lo spacciatore a Brumotti.
WORLD NEWS · 26. luglio 2020
Protests against racial injustice continued around the nation Saturday with tense situations unfolding in cities including Austin, Texas, Louisville, Kentucky, Seattle, Washington, Aurora, Colorado, and Chicago, Illinois. In Louisville two opposing, heavily armed militia groups came within a few dozen yards of each of other, but avoided violence. In Seattle, the city's police declared a riot, citing "ongoing damage and public safety risks." In Austin, authorities say one person was shot to...
WORLD NEWS · 25. luglio 2020
Chris Rutkowski, a researcher who studies unidentified flying objects (UFOs), said that UFO sightings across Canada have increased over 50 percent during the country's coronavirus lockdown. Rutkowski tracks reports of UFOs cited by UFO organizations, Canadian government sources and social media networks. He said that in 2019, there were 849 UFO reports. However, the number of Canadian reports between March to August was 50 percent higher than the amount reported last year during the same period.
WORLD NEWS · 22. luglio 2020
Inchiesta shock della Procura su reati commessi dal 2017: "Impressionanti". Misure cautelari per dieci militari. L'Arma ha disposto l'immediata sospensione. Il comandante generale Nistri: "Procederemo con il massimo rigore". Il procuratore capo: "Tutti gli illeciti più gravi commessi durante il lockdown. Comportamenti criminali, in quella caserma nulla di lecito". L'intercettazione: "Schiaffoni come in Gomorra". Una caserma dei carabinieri posta sotto sequestro e misure cautelari per dieci...
WORLD NEWS · 12. luglio 2020
It’s finally happened. After months of resisting we have the first photos of President Donald Trump wearing a face mask in public. The commander in chief wore a mask during a visit to Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday. Trump was not wearing a mask when he stepped out of the helicopter at the hospital. But he was seen wearing a dark navy blue mask with a gold presidential seal emblazoned on the side as he walked in the hospital’s hallway as he began the visit. It was a...
WORLD NEWS · 11. luglio 2020
A Massachusetts man faced a judge Friday for the alleged sexual assault of a teenager at his Stow gymnastics facility, the Middlesex County District Attorney's office announced. David Auger, 41, of Hudson, was arraigned in Concord District Court on three counts of rape. He pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. While Auger was the owner and a coach at the 10.0 Academy of Gymnastics between Jan. 27, 2018, and July 30, 2019, prosecutors said he allegedly assaulted a student known to him...
WORLD NEWS · 11. luglio 2020
Elon Musk is now richer than Warren Buffett. The fortune of Tesla Inc.’s founder rose $6.1 billion on Friday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after the carmaker’s stock surged 11%. Musk is now the world’s seventh-richest person, also ahead of tech titans Larry Ellison and Sergey Brin. The 49-year-old owns about a fifth of Tesla’s outstanding stock, which comprises the bulk of his $70.5 billion fortune. His majority ownership of closely held Space-X accounts for about $15...