US President Joe Biden hosts German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on Friday for talks on charting the way ahead in their support for Ukraine, after friction over tank deliveries to Kyiv.. "Therefore, the importance of this meeting between Scholz and Biden is heightened," added Rathke, who is also president of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Venezuela has its very own caped superhero.. Venezuela has been going through a serious economic crisis since 2013.
US conservatives reprised some of their greatest hits on the opening day of their annual conference Thursday, as they offered multiple "culture war" grievances that framed government as the biggest threat to the American way of life.. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) auditorium, which never appeared to be more than a quarter full, heard some serious discussion of the opioid epidemic, the rising threat from China and the immigration crisis.
Some send divers in speed boats, others dispatch submersible robots to search the seafloor, and one team deploys a "mud missile" -- all tools used by scientists to scour the world's oceans for the next potent cancer treatment or antibiotic. . That means there is still huge potential to find the next antibiotic or HIV therapy, scientists say.
Shortages of fruit and vegetables -- from broccoli, cucumbers and lettuce, to tomatoes, peppers and raspberries -- have served up a blame game in Britain.. Experts meanwhile believe the problem runs deeper than merely bad growing conditions in key fruit and vegetable producers Spain and Morocco.
The train tragedy that unfolded in Greece this week, claiming dozens of lives in the country's worst rail disaster, has exposed chronic failures by successive administrations, insiders say.. But he also admitted "delays" in installing safety safeguards on the route where the accident took place, a result of "chronic malaise and decades of failure" in state management.
The Paris Opera Ballet named New Zealand's Hannah O'Neill and France's Marc Moreau on Thursday as their two new star dancers, the former a rare non-French dancer in the world's oldest ballet company.. O'Neill, 30, is the one of a handful of foreigners to reach the highest "etoile" status at the elite and world-renowned company, which has only in recent years opened up their ranks to non-French dancers.
Millions stolen, a $7,000 a day drug habit, but no witnesses and no weapons: a US jury was asked Thursday to decide whether a prominent lawyer killed his wife and son on their hunting estate in a trial that has drawn global attention.. The jury continued deliberations on Thursday. pmh/bgs
Two days after Greece's worst rail accident, relatives awaiting news of their missing loved ones are furious and in despair.. At least 57 people died in the crash, burned or crushed to death in the country's worst-ever rail disaster.
A Cambodian court is expected to give a verdict on Friday in the treason trial of top opposition leader Kem Sokha, in a case critics say is designed to bar him from politics as the country prepares for a July election.. Scores of opposition figures were convicted of treason last year, some in absentia -- the latest squeeze on opponents ahead of elections.
