Twitter confirms sale to Elon Musk for $44 bn

Twitter

Twitter confirmed it is selling the platform to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk in a deal valuing   $44 billion on Monday The sale became a dramatic shift for the board, which had at first maneuvered to dam Musk from taking the social media network private. “Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter … Read more

Spain’s Andalusia calls regional vote in test for PM

Andalusia

The leader of Spain’s maximum populous region, Andalusia, on Monday, called a local election for June 19 that could see a ways-right birthday party Vox make profits and step in addition into the political mainstream. The polls inside the southern location could be a test for Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s minority authorities beforehand of … Read more

Russia says Kyiv foiled evacuation from Mariupol

Russia

Russia on Monday accused Kyiv of preventing civilians trapped with Ukrainian infantrymen in Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks from leaving the besieged commercial centre despite a ceasefire declaration. The defence ministry had said it’d permit a civilian evacuation from Mariupol’s sprawling steel plant, which has been sheltering the last Ukrainian resistance within the southeastern port town. But … Read more

Twitter shares rise on reports it will accept Musk takeover bid

Twitter

Twitter shares rose Monday following reports the company is poised to accept Elon Musk’s takeover offer, a dramatic shift after the board organized a “poison pill” to ward off the billionaire entrepreneur’s hostile buyout bid. The deal, which outlets including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times reported could be announced later in the … Read more

US judge holds Trump in contempt over civil fraud probe

Trump

A US decide held former president Donald Trump in contempt of court Monday for failing to turn over documents related to an investigation of viable fraud in the Trump family’s enterprise dealings. The judge, Arthur Engoron, ruled in prefer of New York kingdom lawyer standard Letitia James who is pursuing a civil probe into the … Read more

Child confirmed dead as Japan boat accident toll rises to 11

Japan

Japanese rescuers on Monday confirmed the demise of a child in a weekend sightseeing boat accident, raising the death toll to a minimum of 11, as efforts to discover survivors endured. The Kazu I become wearing 24 passengers, inclusive of children and two teams, whilst it despatched a misery signal on Saturday afternoon because it … Read more

Sri Lanka exchange halts again after 13% plunge

Sri Lanka

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s inventory alternate halted once more Monday after an almost 13 percent plunge, derailing the bourse’s tentative reopening after a two-week smash aimed at forestalling a marketplace disintegrate. The island country is grappling with its worst economic downturn since independence in 1948, with months of ordinary blackouts and acute shortages of meals and … Read more

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers killed in Indonesia

Indonesia

Three critically endangered Sumatran tigers had been discovered lifeless in western Indonesia on Sunday after being ensnared by traps, police said, dealing any other blow to the species’ hastily declining population. Rampant deforestation has decreased the tigers’ natural habitat and growing warfare with humans have left best several hundred of the endangered species remaining within the wild, … Read more

Man arrested in London after four people found dead

London

British police on Monday said a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder after   3 women and a man have been discovered dead at a property in south London. Officers pressured access to a residential address in Bermondsey, inside the Southwark region of the capital, after reviews of a disturbance at approximately 1:40 am … Read more

UN says dozens killed in South Sudan interethnic violence

South Sudan

At least 72  civilians had been killed over a seven-week length in a single county in South Sudan, with some beheaded and others burned alive, as interethnic violence roils the oil-wealthy region, the United Nations stated on Monday. The bloodshed between February 17 and April 7 in Leer county in Unity state reportedly pressured forty,000 … Read more

London and Washington begin two days of trade talks

The UK on Monday commenced two days of talks with the USA, hoping for progress to cozy a coveted submit-Brexit free change deal. International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan was web hosting her US counterpart Katherine Tai in Aberdeen, northeast Scotland, and London. The pair formerly met in Baltimore at the give up of March and announced an … Read more

First same-sex marriage held in British Antarctic Territory

British

Two stewards on a polar studies vessel have ended up the first same-gender couple to get married in the British Antarctic Territory, the British Antarctic Survey said on Monday. Eric Bourne and Stephen Carpenter were given hitched on Sunday in bright sunshine on the helideck of the RSS Sir David Attenborough on the BAS’s Rothera … Read more

Tiny Bronte book heads home to Yorkshire after New York sale

Yorkshire

A miniature book of poems written with the aid of a 13-yr Charlotte Bronte will return to her windswept Yorkshire home after it was sold for $1.25 million by way of a British consortium, the buyers said Monday. Smaller than a playing card, the 15-page manuscript dated 1829 is a set of 10 unpublished poems … Read more

Markets tumble on China lockdowns, rate hike fears

China

Stock markets and oil prices slumped Monday on the developing situation that lockdowns in China aimed toward preventing a worsening Covid outbreak may want to in addition damage an international economic system battling much years-high inflation. The losses extended the remaining week’s promote-off triggered with the aid of Federal Reserve boss Jerome Powell indicating that … Read more

UK regulator probes ‘sexist, misogynist’ article about top MP

UK

Britain’s press regulator on Monday stated it had acquired a slew of proceedings over a newspaper article likening a leading lady competition MP to the femme fatale character in “Basic Instinct”. The Mail on Sunday alleged Angela Rayner deliberately attempted to distract Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the course of debates in parliament by means … Read more

UK to ship missile launch vehicles to Ukraine

Ukraine

Britain is to ship to Ukraine armoured motors capable of fire missiles towards invading Russian plane, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace stated on Monday. Ukrainian forces had been the use of UK-donated Starstreak excessive pace and low speed missiles in opposition to Russian forces for over 3 weeks, he told parliament. “We shall be gifting a small number … Read more

France’s Sister Andre claims title of world’s oldest person

France

A French nun who currently celebrated her 118th birthday together with her conventional port-and-chocolate cocktail is now the arena’s oldest known individual, following the loss of life announced Monday of a Japanese lady year her senior. Lucile Randon, called Sister Andre, changed into born in southern France on February 11, 1904, when World War I was still … Read more

Trainer plane crash kills two in Turkey’s Bursa

Bursa

A single-engine aircraft crashed into a residential district in Turkey’s northwestern town of Bursa, killing the flight instructor and scholar but inflicting no other accidents, the neighborhood governor stated. Television pics showed orange flames and thick plumes of smoke growing over a residential road within the metropolis of extra than two million people, with large crowds … Read more