A black Alfa Romeo collided with five pedestrians, all members of the same family, outside the multi-storey car park in Ramsgate, Kent, at around 9.35pm on Wednesday. A man in his 80s and a woman in her 30s died soon after, and a young woman was seriously injured. Nitesh Bissendary, 30, of Manston, Kent, has been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and assault occasioning actual bodily harm....

Am Ende der Pressekonferenz mit Bundeskanzler Scholz bezeichnete Palästinenserpräsident Abbas das israelische Vorgehen gegen die Palästinenser als Holocaust. Soltz schwieg, war aber sichtlich verärgert. Später äußerte er sich und fand klare Worte. Der Präsident der Palästinensischen Autonomiebehörde Mahmud Abbas hat bei seinem Besuch in Berlin für einen Eklat gesorgt. Nach Gesprächen mit Bundeskanzler Olaf Solz warf er Israel einen “Holocaust” an den Palästinensern vor. „Israel hat seit 1947 bis heute 50 Massaker in 50 palästinensischen Städten verübt“, sagte Abbas bei einer Pressekonferenz mit Soltz im Kanzleramt....

NASA’s New Moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its first flight in less than two weeks. The 98-meter-long rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of workers to the Kennedy Space Center. It took nearly 10 hours for the rocket to make the four-mile trip to the pad, pulling up at sunrise. NASA is targeting an August 29 liftoff for the lunar test flight....

“President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, many of them classified,” Mr Trump said in a statement. “How many of those were nuclear? There are many words!” But the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA, which maintains and preserves records after a president leaves office, confirmed on Friday afternoon that Mr. Obama had turned over his documents — classified and unclassified — as required by the 1978 Presidential Archives....

Cincinnati shooting suspect Ricky Schieffer was shot by police on the side of an interstate freeway just hours after he tried to break into a visitor’s entrance to an FBI office in the city. The 42-year-old, from Columbus, Ohio, fled the scene of the attempted attack on Thursday morning before a standoff and shootout broke out hours later. The FBI confirmed his death at 3:45 p.m. after a shootout. Officials are investigating Shiffer’s ties to the U....

Après un premier événement météorologique majeur ce week-end, avec de violents orages localisés et une mini-tornade qui a causé d’importants dégâts à Frontignan, Météo France alerte sur une nouvelle ligne d’orage traversant la région d’ouest en est. à partir de ce mardi 16 août. Un phénomène violent, jusqu’à 120 mm. de pluie L’Aude, l’Aveyron, le Gard et l’Hérault ont été mis en vigilance orange aux orages. Dans ces deux derniers départements, le risque d’inondation est également surveillé de près et la carte d’alerte de Météo France devrait évoluer ce mardi à 16h....

Brando cast Sacheen Littlefeather in his place as a protest against the film industry’s treatment and stereotyping of Native Americans. The movie legend gave her a long speech, but the activist and actor only had a minute to convey his feelings to an estimated 85 million viewers. Littlefeather refused to accept the statuette from Roger Moore and was booed by some in the audience after her speech – although there was applause....

Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Medicare is poised to renegotiate the prices of some of its most expensive drugs in a historic expansion that could lower costs for many seniors as well as federal spending on its prescription drug plan. The changes are hidden in a massive spending and tax bill in Congress that includes $433 billion in investments in health care and clean energy. House Democrats passed the Inflation Relief Act on Friday by a 220-207 vote along party lines, ending a tortured legislative process that has lasted more than a year....

Komiker Peter Freiburghaus vom Duo Fischbach ist gestorben „Wir trauern um Peter Freiburghaus“, schrieb das Theaterduo Fischbach auf seiner Website. Der Komiker starb im Alter von 75 Jahren. 1/11 Komiker und Schauspieler Peter Freiburghaus ist im Alter von 75 Jahren gestorben. Peter Freiburghaus, geboren im Berner Raum, wurde mit dem Duo Fischbach berühmt. Er gründete das Comedy-Duo 1991 mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Antonia Limacher (69). Später gründete er das Theater Duo Fischbach in Küsnacht am Rigi....

Perspective by Georgie Wileman and August 12, 2022 at 9:00 am EDT Placeholder when loading article actions When she was 13, Georgie Wileman began suffering debilitating abdominal pain and fatigue that would change her life forever. For more than a decade, Wileman struggled to get a diagnosis for her condition. At 26, she was diagnosed with endometriosis, an inflammatory disease in which cells similar to those lining the uterus grow outside the uterus....

Bundesumweltministerin Steffi Lemke (Grüne) hat am Samstagabend in Frankfurt (Oder) Fehler in der Zusammenarbeit mit Polen eingeräumt. Der Grünen-Politiker bemüht sich nun um eine bessere Abstimmung. „Das Thema deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit hat an dieser Stelle offensichtlich nicht funktioniert (…), sonst hätten wir zumindest vom Land Brandenburg oder den Nachbarkommunen früher Informationen erhalten“, sagte Lemke. Dort hatten Helfer viele tote Fische vom Ufer eingesammelt. “Wir wissen sogar, dass diese für solche Fälle vorgesehene Verweiskette nicht funktioniert hat”, hatte zuvor ein Vertreter des Umweltministeriums erklärt....

Officers were called to an industrial complex at 150 Thirty Street, near Lake Shore Boulevard West, around 8:45 p.m. on July 3. Officers arrived to find two men with gunshot wounds and an injured woman nearby. Both men were rushed to hospital, where one of them was pronounced dead. The second man succumbed to his injuries the next day. Police have since identified the two men who died as 24-year-old Minyali Wur of Mississauga and 20-year-old Chudier Reat of Mississauga....

14.08.2022 von Fridemann Leipold Riccardo Muti und die Wiener Philharmoniker sind ein eingespieltes Team – die Salzburger Festspiele auch. Jahr für Jahr kehren Dirigent und Orchester zur traditionellen Salzburger Matinee dorthin zurück. Dieses Jahr mit einem überraschenden und existentiellen Programm. Bildquelle: Salzburger Festspiele / Marco Borrelli Was für ein Kontrast: Vollgestopfte Züge, Touristenmassen in der Getreidegasse, vor dem Festspielhaus das bereits gekleidete Publikum in Champagnerlaune am Morgen. Und drinnen dreht sich alles um die letzten Dinge....

Members of the Aslef union at nine train companies began a 24-hour strike on Saturday morning, leaving some parts of the country without services. Football fans, tourists and holidaymakers were among the tens of thousands of passengers affected. While companies not participating in the strike continued to run trains, they were busier than normal. The industrial action will also affect services running on Sunday morning, with those planning to travel asked to consider starting their journey later in the day....

Michael O’Leary, chief executive of the low-cost airline, said the extra capacity at the Essex airport would mean capacity for another 100,000 passengers at a time when “desperate” Heathrow is suffering further travel chaos. Ryanair’s move comes a day after Heathrow announced it was extending its 100,000-passenger-a-day cap for another six weeks, as the airline industry continues to struggle to meet increased demand for travel amid staff shortages. The capacity limit was originally due to last until September 11, but that date was pushed back to Monday, October 29, overlapping the fall semester break for most schools....

The account was taken down late Friday night. There are no definitive links to the causes of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but an initial intelligence assessment indicated that it is sympathetic to the Iranian government group, an official told NBC. The British author lived under the shadow of a fatwa imposed 33 years ago after the publication of his novel The Satanic Verses, which many Muslims consider blasphemous. The late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 called for Rushdie’s death, while in 2012 an Iranian religious foundation raised the bounty on Rushdie’s head to $3....

Dania Al-Obeid was convicted of breaching coronavirus restrictions when she attended the vigil in 2021 under a single judicial procedure (SJP), which allows a judge to rule on a case without the need for a court hearing. He was due to face a full trial later this year before the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case on the grounds that it was not in the public interest. On Tuesday, lawyers representing Al-Obeid formally notified the Metropolitan police of their intention to pursue claims of violations of her rights under the Human Rights Act 1998....

Quebec Superior Court Judge Chantal Corriveau ruled that sections of Bill 96 requiring companies to pay a certified translator to produce French versions of legal documents could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice through the courts. In a written decision released Friday, Corriveau said the rule could cause delays and costs that could particularly hurt small and medium-sized businesses. “In this case, in the court’s opinion, the evidence demonstrates a serious risk that, in these cases, some legal entities will not be able to assert their rights before the courts in a timely manner or will be forced to do so in a language other than official language which they and their lawyers best possess and which they identify as their own,” he wrote....

Gurney police responded to the park after receiving 911 calls around 7:50 p.m. Police said a white sedan pulled into the parking lot and drove toward the front entrance, where the suspects got out and began shooting at another person in the parking lot. The suspects then got outside and drove away, police said. Two people were shot and taken to Advocate Condell in Libertyville with non-life threatening injuries. A 17-year-old boy from Aurora suffered an upper leg injury and a 19-year-old woman from Appleton, Wisconsin suffered a lower leg injury....

UPDATE 4:55 p.m Environment Canada has downgraded its storm warning to a watch. The warning ended at 4:49 p.m The rest of the watch means conditions could still produce a storm in the area. UPDATE 3:20 p.m Environment Canada has upgraded the storm watch in the Okanagan and Boundary to a warning. This means that a storm is imminent. The weather service says that as of 3:13 p.m., forecasters were watching for a “severe thunderstorm capable of producing strong wind gusts, nickel-sized hail and heavy rain....