- Some progress made in recovering U.S. Army soldiers submerged in Lithuanian swamp NPR
- US military working to recover 70 ton vehicle from Lithuanian swamp as 4 Army soldiers remain missing Fox News
- Lithuania recovers US army vehicle, soldiers' fate unknown DW (English)
- US armored vehicle missing in Lithuania pulled from swamp but fate of 4 soldiers is still unknown ABC News
- PRESS RELEASE — Recovery Operations in Lithuania March 30 Update U.S. Army Europe
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians face power outages due to ice storm
More than 300,000 without power as storm, expected to continue overnight, pummels Ottawa, Quebec and Ontario
More than 300,000 Canadians faced power outages in parts of Ontario on Sunday as an ice storm pummeled the region over the weekend, according to electricity provider Hydro One.
Environment Canada issued winter storm warnings for freezing rain in Ottawa, parts of Quebec and Ontario, with the risk of snow mixed with or transitioning to ice pellets expected to continue until Monday morning in some regions.
Continue reading...Trump wants India to buy US corn – but here’s why it probably won’t
India feeds over a billion people, yet low yields and poor infrastructure keep agriculture lagging.
Police offer £10,000 reward for information on boy who disappeared in London in 2008
Alexander Sloley was a 16-year-old college student when he went missing from Islington
Police seeking information about a 33-year-old man who disappeared 17 years ago have offered a £10,000 reward.
Alexander Sloley was 16 and studying accountancy at college when he disappeared from Islington, north London, in August 2008. His family and friends have not heard from him since, despite issuing an efit of what he might look like in his late 20s when the police investigation was reopened in 2019.
Continue reading...Trump insists he is ‘not joking’ about seeking a third term as president
US President Donald Trump hints at exploring paths to a third term despite constitutional limits.
Israeli air attacks kill dozens in Gaza as Palestinians mark Eid al-Fitr
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeats a demand for Hamas to disarm and for its leaders to leave Gaza.
What’s happening to US-European relations?
There are divisions over NATO, the future of Greenland, trade and the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House
In interview Trump said he wasn’t joking when he alluded to a purported loophole for a third term as president
Donald Trump has said there are “methods” – if not “plans” – to circumvent the constitutional limit preventing US presidents from serving three terms.
In an interview aired Sunday on NBC, Trump was asked about his trying to stay in office beyond his second presidency, a specter he has repeatedly raised while sometimes claiming he is just joking.
Continue reading...Decision day in court for Marine Le Pen’s French presidential hopes
Accused of misusing EU funds, Monday's verdict could determine whether the far-right National Rally leader can run again.
‘The US won’t get that’: Greenland rejects Trump’s claim over the territory
Greenlandic PM responds to Trump’s claims over Greenland, asserting that the territory will decide its own future.
Volunteer rescuers race to find survivors two days after Myanmar earthquake
Red Cross says devastation is of a level not seen in Asia for over a century as more than 1,700 people killed
Rescue volunteers, many of them poorly equipped local people, raced to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings across central Myanmar, two days after a huge earthquake killed more than 1,700 people in the country and at least 18 in neighbouring Thailand.
Red Cross officials said Myanmar was facing “a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia”, after a 7.7-magnitude quake struck near the centre of the country on Friday afternoon, followed minutes later by a 6.7-magnitude aftershock.
Continue reading...Trump ‘angry’ with Putin and threatens tariffs on Russian oil over Ukraine
Trump warns of 25 percent US tariffs on Russian oil, urges Putin to halt Ukraine bloodshed in tense diplomatic standoff.
Goldberg dismisses Waltz’s Signal leak defense: ‘Numbers don’t just get sucked into other phones’
Atlantic editor says Trump adviser’s defense for accidentally adding him to war plans chat was implausible
Atlantic magazine editor Jeffrey Goldberg has dismissed the explanation offered by national security adviser Mike Waltz for how he was included in a Trump administration group text chat about – and in advance of – the recent bombing of Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Goldberg said Waltz’s theory that his contact was “sucked in” to his phone via “somebody else’s contact” was implausible.
Continue reading...Trump ‘running out of patience’ with Putin over Ukraine ceasefire, says Finnish president
Alexander Stubb – who played golf with Trump this weekend – suggested deadline and US sanctions package
Donald Trump is losing patience with Vladimir Putin’s stalling tactics over the Ukraine ceasefire, the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb, said after spending several hours with the US president – including winning a golf competition with him at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Saturday.
Stubb, who also spent two days with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, last week in Helsinki suggested in a Guardian interview a plan for a deadline of 20 April, by which time Putin should be required to comply with a full ceasefire.
Stubb pointed out that a third golf partner on Saturday, the Republican senator Lindsey Graham, already has a bill in the US Senate proposing what he has described as “bone-breaking” US sanctions on Russia if it did not accept an unconditional ceasefire.
Minnesota officials seek answers after Ice detains graduate student
Leaders call on federal authorities to explain actions after University of Minnesota student detained on Thursday
Officials in Minnesota were seeking answers in the case of a University of Minnesota graduate student who was being detained by US immigration authorities for unknown reasons.
University leadership said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detained the student on Thursday at an off-campus residence. Officials said the school was not given advance notice about the detention and did not share information with federal authorities. The student’s name and nationality have not been released.
Continue reading...Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest
Group of Sipa graduates demonstrate against government’s jailing of graduate student, who spoke up for Palestinians
A handful of alumni from Columbia University’s school of international and public affairs (Sipa) ripped their diplomas in a show of protest against the federal government’s jailing of graduate student Mahmoud Khalil’s over his activism for Palestinians.
On Saturday, instead of participating in the university’s annual Sipa alumni day, a few dozen alumni and students gathered outside campus as part of a protest organized by Sipa’s and Barnard Alumni for Palestine groups.
Continue reading...Barcelona sweep past Girona to restore LaLiga lead over Real Madrid
Barcelona restore their three-point advantage over Real Madrid at the top of LaLiga with a 4-1 home win against Girona.
Wounded Palestinians dying over lack of supplies, US surgeon who worked in Gaza says
Dr Mark Perlmutter says doctors are working without soap, antibiotics or x-ray facilities, as Israel has resumed its offensive against Hamas.
Youth Demand says more protesters have signed up since Quaker house raid
Group claims as many as 200 people have expressed interest in joining its action as arrests drive awareness
The activist group targeted in an unprecedented police raid on a Quaker meeting house said it had resulted in large numbers of people signing up to take part in a series of new protests starting this week.
Six women attending a gathering of the protest group Youth Demand were arrested after more than 20 uniformed police, some equipped with Tasers, forced their way into the Westminster meeting house on Thursday. The raid was condemned by the Quakers as “an aggressive violation”.
Continue reading...Turkish opposition leader calls for weekly rallies and deeper economic boycott – The Guardian
- Turkish opposition leader calls for weekly rallies and deeper economic boycott The Guardian
- Hundreds of thousands join mass opposition protest in Istanbul FRANCE 24 English
- Turkey protests: Pro-democracy demonstrators return to Istanbul's streets for huge rally BBC.com
- Turkey’s cautionary tale: The fall of the courts is the fall of freedom The Hill
- Turkey’s Opposition Is Energized: ‘The Fire Is Already Lit’ The New York Times