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Anonymous investors have launched a hostile €25m bid for Sóller’s locally owned heritage train link to Palma.
Epstein’s lawyers said they were “not satisfied” with the medical examiner’s conclusions and planned to carry out their own investigation, seeking prison videos taken around the time of his death.
The tanker was seized by British Royal Marines at the western mouth of the Mediterranean on July 4 on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions by taking oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran.
Disney's live-action remake of the animated film Mulan is facing calls for a boycott, after its star voiced support for Hong Kong's police force.
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'Agent King' comes from Sony and counts Priscilla Presley among its executive producers, and John Varvatos will design the character's wardrobe for the show.
An “apocalyptic” scenario for the most popular type of banana may be unfolding in Latin America. A strong and incredibly hard to stop fungus has been spotted in the area.
White House sources told the Journal that Trump asked his advisers about acquiring the island during “meetings, dinners, and passing conversations” because of Greenland's “abundant resources and geopolitical importance.”
The tanker was seized by British Royal Marines at the western mouth of the Mediterranean on July 4 on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions by taking oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran.
The coalition overnight on Saturday renewed a call for the separatist forces to withdraw from all sites they have recently captured in Aden.
The tanker was seized by British Royal Marines at the western mouth of the Mediterranean on July 4 on suspicion of violating European Union sanctions by taking oil to Syria, a close ally of Iran.
A Saudi-led coalition is battling the Iran-aligned Houthis to try to restore Yemen’s government, which was ousted from power in the capital Sanaa by the group in late 2014. The war has been in military stalemate for years.
Family of teenager found dead in Malaysian jungle say reports may hinder investigations.
According to the official account, the elite scientists killed in the accident -- Alexey Vyushin, Yevgeny Koratayev, Vyacheslav Lipshev, Sergey Pichugin and Vladislav Yanovsky -- were killed during tests on a liquid propulsion system involving isotopes.
Crystal Liu, the lead in Disney’s live-action remake, voiced support for police in the city.
Vets say plastic caused orphan mammal’s infection and should serve as warning about pollution.
The film was shot by Rian Boshoff, a financial adviser, who was part of a group looking for wildlife at Sabi Sands, which shares an unfenced border with Kruger National Park.
Now a private citizen, Lewandowski said he looked forward to the chance to testify as “a guy who’s going to fight back” against Democratic claims of wrongdoing by Trump.
The arrest followed a manhunt for the suspect after the 33-year-old victim was found shot dead in a camper van in Raglan, in the Waikato region. A Canadian woman who had been traveling with the victim was able to escape.
Investigation uncovers widespread use in museums and shopping centres.
But economic pressures have led the family to sell off their remaining cows.
The show replicated the alert tone three times, which is illegal, during a sketch mocking the warning system.
Born nearly blind in 1947, Maria Christina, princess of Orange-Nassau, was the fourth daughter of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard.
But after 17 years of problem solving for corporate giants, Rana took a leap of faith to use those skills to pursue her own passion -- nurturing the talent and spirit of women.
Advances in technology, design and engineering over the decades have allowed amusement parks to offer ever taller, faster and steeper coasters (with loops and other kinds of inversions as well). These big hills are getting ever more thrilling and frightening -- and that's really the point, isn't it?
The Cooper-Eromanga Basins in the north-eastern corner of South Australia and south-western corner of Queensland is Australia’s largest onshore oil and gas producing region of Australia.
The first reports of the fire came on Wednesday afternoon when flames were spotted at an empty warehouse, which was totally destroyed in the blaze.
Telephone and internet links were cut and public assembly banned in Kashmir just before New Delhi removed the decades-old autonomy the Muslim majority territory enjoyed under the Indian constitution. The measures were aimed at preventing protests.
The 25-year-old activist has been a constant presence at the often violent protests that have rocked Hong Kong this summer, rallying comrades, building barricades and rushing from district to district in a frantic game of cat-and-mouse with police.
There had been talk for years that McGregor would return in an Obi Wan standalone film, but those plans were reportedly put on hold following the unsuccessful roll out of 'Star Wars' standalone film 'Solo.”'
Police found one man fatally wounded when they responded to the scene of gunshots in Montgomery, Alabama at about 7:15 p.m., according to Montgomery County Police.
The UK territory received written assurances from Iran that the ship would not discharge its cargo in Syria.
Storm Krosa made landfall near Hiroshima in southern Japan on Thursday and is now moving north, according to Japan's Meteorological Agency.
Alain Robert unfurled a banner showing a handshake and the flags of Hong Kong and China on Friday morning.
Briefing media on the results of an hourslong emergency National Security Council (NSC) session held via videoconferencing, Cheong Wa Dae characterized two projectiles fired earlier in the day as "short-range" ones but stopped short of revealing other details.
President proposes in state of the union speech to parliament on the eve of country's 74th independence anniversary.
Saudi Arabia denies claims that staff at detention facilities treat violent abuse of undocumented migrants ‘like a sport’.
Michael McCormack says island nations want Australia to shut down industry ‘so they can survive’.
It is the driest desert in the world outside of the polar regions, and its 40,500-odd square miles of red and burnt-orange plains stretch as far as the eye can see.
Disney hit this new milestone amid a record-breaking year that will also include the launch of Disney+ -a new streaming service that, at $6.99 a month, will likely be the most formidable competitor to Netflix.
The court was hearing a petition by a newspaper editor seeking restoration of telephone and internet services snapped this month, just before the government withdrew Kashmir’s special status, to prevent protests.
The lawsuit, which combined several legal actions, stems from Facebook Inc’s worst-ever security breach in September, when hackers stole login codes - or “access tokens” - that allowed them to access nearly 29 million accounts.
Regime says Pyongyang and Seoul have nothing to talk about while South Korea continues military drills with US.
Jim Kenney urged state and federal government to stand up to NRA or ‘then let us police ourselves’.
The projectiles were fired from its eastern coastal county of Tongchon in Kangwon Province earlier in the day, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). No other details were immediately known, including their type, flight range and maximum altitude.
Dire economic data from China and Germany suggested a faltering global economy, stricken by the increasingly belligerent U.S.-China trade war, Brexit woes and geopolitical tensions.
Jason Nies, who owns the Inn at Honey Run, 6920 County Road 203, said one of his cousin's sons, Jackson, found the fossil while playing in the creek.
The world’s largest retailer posted a 20-quarter, or five-year, streak of U.S. growth, unmatched by any other retail chain.
The level detected is very low and poses no harm to people nor the environment.
And the story of how it got that way has long eluded explanation.
Chelsea say ticket touting has links to organised crime and the club will have an operation running for the rest of this season.
Rocky and his two bodyguards, who spent nearly a month behind bars before being released Aug. 2, were given "conditional sentences" for their assault convictions. That means they don't have to serve prison time unless they commit a similar offense in Sweden again.
The United Kingdom’s Home Office tweeted Wednesday: “We are rolling out our #KnifeFree chicken boxes in over 210 chicken shops in England and Wales, including Morley’s, Dixy Chicken and Chicken Cottage. They use real life stories to show people how they can go #KnifeFree.”
Ben Muscroft is Slimming World Man of the Year after a trip to China made him realise he couldn't go on tipping the scales at 27st 8lbs.
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