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The chief executive of one of the United States’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an apparently targeted hit Wednesday. Brian Thompson was shot just before 7 am outside the hotel in the Midtown district of Manhattan. Police are searching for the killer. Police hunt for US healthcare executive’s masked killer after New York attack

News that the civil war in Syria had flared up again came as no surprise to Turkish citizens. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his right-wing nationalist coalition partner Devlet Bahceli have talked about little else than the shift in power in the Middle East and what the possible negative consequences of that could be for Turkey for more than two months now. The suggestion has been that regional changes could be advantageous to Kurds in Syria who have controlled northeastern Rojava — also known as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) — since the civil war began…

“Not recognizing stalking is a lack of respect for the victim’s family. And it is yet another confirmation that the institutions don’t care about women.” Elena Cecchettin, Giulia’s sister, returns to talk on social media. This time he does it on the first degree sentence that sentenced Filippo Turetta to life imprisonment. Judgment and reality are not the same thing “A judicial sentence does not always correspond to the reality of the facts – Elena writes on Instagram – It is called judicial truth, and that is what is reported by the verdict. And that’s it. It doesn’t take away…

The price of Bitcoin soared past the long-awaited $100,000 benchmark for the first time ever late Wednesday evening. The flagship cryptocurrency was last higher by more than 4% at $103,544.00, according to Coin Metrics. Earlier, it rose as high as $103,844.05. Bitcoin is now up more than 140% in 2024 and 48% since the election. The move came hours after President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, fulfilling perhaps his most important campaign promise to the crypto industry: to replace Gary Gensler, who has become something of a villain in crypto…

A mum who was livestreaming a charity walk to raise money for Women’s Aid captured the moment a thief grabbed her phone. Cassandra Baker, 46, was livestreaming on Facebook while walking with her children in the dark on Monday. Cheerfully asking her followers about their plans for the evening, she said: ‘Has everyone had their dinner? What have they eaten for dinner?’ She then mentioned she was going to make salmon in the hole with mashed potatoes, green beans, carrots, broccoli with salmon. In the middle of her sentence, her phone is suddenly snatched by a man on a bicycle,…

Vienna has won the 2025 Access City Award for its outstanding efforts to making the city accessible for persons with disabilities. The city has led the way in improving access to public spaces, public transport, IT and public services. It has also created accessible swimming pools and bus stops. Source link Vienna wins 2025 Access City Award

Former Scotland rugby captain Stuart Hogg is due to be sentenced after he admitted abusing his estranged wife over the course of five years. He previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of domestic abuse of his ex-partner, Gillian Hogg, when he appeared at Selkirk Sheriff Court on November 4. He admitted shouting and swearing, tracking her movements and sending her messages which were alarming and distressing in nature. The court previously heard he berated Mrs Hogg for “not being fun” after going on drinking binges with his colleagues, and once sent more than 200 text messages to her in…

Bitcoin has topped 100,000 dollars (£78,701) for the first time as a massive rally rolls on, only hours after US President-elect Donald Trump picked crypto advocate Paul Atkins to lead the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Mr Trump said Mr Atkins, the chief executive of Patomak Partners and a former SEC commissioner, was a “proven leader for common sense regulations”. In the years since leaving the SEC, Mr Atkins has made the case against too much market regulation. Mr Trump wrote on Truth Social: “He believes in the promise of robust, innovative capital markets that are responsive to the…

  Three months after he was appointed prime minister by French President Emmanuel Macron, Michel Barnier and his government were toppled on Wednesday, December 4, after a majority of PMs voted a no-confidence motion. The Assemblée Nationale debated two motions of no confidence, one presented by the radical left and the other by the far right, in a standoff over next year’s austerity budget, after the prime minister on Monday forced a social security financing bill through without a vote. Read more Subscribers only From Barnier’s use of Article 49.3 to two no-confidence motions: A day of upheaval at the…

  As a special privilege, Emmanuel Macron was given a preview of the cathedral ahead of its reopening on Friday, November 29, and shared this moment with over a thousand lucky visitors. According to the Élysée, they were the people “most involved,” a term used to describe both the workers and restorers who brought the cathedral back to life, as well as the most generous donors who financed the project. Read more Inside Notre-Dame: The first images of the cathedral post-reconstruction Some €843 million was raised in the direct aftermath of the 15 April 2019 fire, with 340,000 people contributing…