Author: Bruce Snyder

Five people were killed Tuesday evening in Mississippi after a car they were riding in crashed into a barricade on a bridge and plunged into a creek below. Four of the five people who died were children between the ages of 12 to 15, WMC-TV reported. The adult who died was 19. One 14-year-old passenger was able to escape the vehicle and call 911. The crash happened on a rural road in Batesville just before 10 p.m. Tuesday. The Panola County Sheriff’s Office said there were no other vehicles involved in the crash. Deputies have not said what might have precipitated the crash…

Kemal Kilicdaroglu had met with the pro-Kurdish party HDP. Their votes could decide the outcome of the Turkish presidential election. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lashed out at his main challenger in the upcoming elections over meetings with the pro-Kurdish HDP party. His opponent Kemal Kilicdaroglu has made the parliamentary arm of a “terrorist organization” a partner, Erdogan said on Wednesday evening, according to a report by the state news agency Anadolu. The Tagesspiegel app Current news, background information and analyzes directly on your smartphone. Plus the digital newspaper. Download here for free. The HDP had previously decided not to put forward its…

U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for Mississippi on Sunday after a powerful storm tore across the state, killing at least 25 people there and one in Alabama. The President ordered federal aid to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the affected areas, a White House Statement read. The funding will be available to affected people in the counties of Carroll, Humphreys, Monroe, and Sharkey, it added.“Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects…

The American “Politex Today” website published a report in which it talked about the reality of the secret intelligence war between Morocco and France, which has been raging for more than a decade, out of sight and television screens. The site said, in its report, translated by “Arabi 21”, that thousands of secret Moroccan documents were revealed by an unknown source, and many of them are now being highlighted in the international press to support corruption charges against current and former members of the European Parliament in the “Qatar and Morocco Gate” case. . The site stated that in a…

Representatives of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published footage of the broken opornik of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The stronghold of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the territory of the LPR was occupied by soldiers of the Central Military District. According to representatives of the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry, the motorized riflemen of the Central Military District managed to break through the echeloned defense of Ukrainian nationalists in the forest of the Lugansk People’s Republic. According to them, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine began to hastily…

Balloons that appeared over Ukraine are allegedly used by Russia for surveillance. This was stated by the representative of the command of the country’s air force Yuri Ignat. “Probably these are balloons with corner reflectors, which we talked about recently. Ukrainian air defense radar observes targets that move in air currents at low speed,” said Yuriy Ignat. His words are quoted by the publication “Ukrainian Truth”. He noted that Russia allegedly uses such balls for reconnaissance and diverting Ukrainian air defense. In February, a Chinese balloon flew over the United States. It was intended for collecting weather data. The probe flew over several military bases, which…

Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to The Moscow Times. Many of Russia’s thousands of bunkers, reinforced cellars and other safe hideouts have been mothballed for decades. But as the war in Ukraine drags on, local authorities appear to be spending hundreds of millions of rubles to again make them fit for habitation. “A decision to inspect the network of bomb shelters was made by the government in the spring,” said one Russian official, citing knowledge of…

HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is demanding the release of a former Afghan soldier seeking asylum in the U.S. who is being held at a Texas detention center after he attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border to reunite with his brother. And to ensure Abdul Wasi Safi begins his life in the U.S. without a criminal record, Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, has sent a letter to the White House asking the Biden administration to pardon the Afghan veteran for any crimes related to his crossing the border seeking asylum. “This is a mistake that needs to be…

OLIVE BRANCH, Mississippi — The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-0 tornado touched down in DeSoto County, Mississippi, early Tuesday morning. Minor damage was reported after the tornado touched down near Olive Branch, Mississippi. The tornado confirmation came after survey teams from the National Weather Service analyzed the damage and confirmed it was consistent with an EF-0 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which measures the strength of a tornado based on damage assessments. Weather radar detected debris in the storm around 6:05am Tuesday morning. This commonly happens when a tornado touches down and picks up objects like branches, shingles,…

Kristalina Georgieva said 2023 will be “tougher” than last year as the US, EU and China see their economies slow. It comes as the war in Ukraine, rising prices, higher interest rates and the spread of Covid in China weigh on the global economy. In October the IMF cut its global economic growth outlook for 2023. “We expect one third of the world economy to be in recession,” Ms Georgieva said on the CBS news programme Face the Nation. “Even countries that are not in recession, it would feel like recession for hundreds of millions of people,” she added. Katrina…