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Top News Stories for Wednesday, April 2nd 2025
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
A French court rules to bar Marine Le Pen from seeking office for five years. Bluesky Marine Le Pen will not be a candidate in France's 2027 presidential elections. For now, at least, that is the letter of a major court ruling against the longtime leader of the French far right, who was found guilty on March 31 of sprawling embezzlement charges and sentenced to a five-year ban on seeking elected office. Le Pen and ...
Source: thenation.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
All four U.S. soldiers who had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for a week after their armored vehicle sank in a peat bog near the border with Belarus have been found dead, the Army said. The fourth missing soldier's body was recovered Tuesday, a day after the three other soldiers were found, the Army's Europe and Africa Command said in a statement. All of the soldiers were assigned to the 1st ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
This summary was AI-generated and reviewed by CNN editors. The Trump administration conceded in a court filing Monday that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father to El Salvador "because of an administrative error" and argued it could not return him because he's now in Salvadoran custody. The filing stems from a lawsuit over the removal of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who in 2019 was granted ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
BANGKOK (AP) — Rescue workers saved a 63-year-old woman from the rubble of a building in Myanmar's capital on Tuesday, but hope was fading of finding many more survivors of the violent earthquake that killed at least 2,000, compounding a humanitarian crisis caused by a bloody civil war. The fire department in Naypyitaw said the woman was successfully pulled from the rubble early Tuesday, 91 hours after being ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
Taiwan says it has detected nearly 20 vessels off its coast as Beijing orders large scale sea and air exercises and calls leaders in Taipei 'parasites' China has launched large-scale military drills around Taiwan , accusing its leaders of being "separatists" and "parasites" who were pushing the democratically run island into war. The drills, accompanied by a propaganda campaign, were launched without warning on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
The bodies of Red Crescent and UN workers, missing for around eight days, have been found buried under sand in a mass grave. The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has denied killing innocent medical workers. The father of a paramedic killed by Israel in Gaza has told Sky News he would have been on the mission to rescue wounded colleagues, but was ill that day and so his son went instead. "It was supposed to be me, you ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
In Pictures An Israeli air strike on a building in the Lebanese capital Beirut targeting a member of Hezbollah has killed at least four people. The surprise attack came at about 3:30am (00:30 GMT) on Tuesday during the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month. The second strike on the city in three days has raised fears that the shaky ceasefire between Israel and the armed Hezbollah ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
April 1 (UPI) -- The United States has imposed sanctions against Chinese officials accused of committing human rights abuses in Hong Kong as it released its latest report on Beijing's influence over the city once celebrated for its democratic autonomy. The report to Congress covers the period between January and December of last year, finding that the governments of China and Hong Kong have continued to crack down ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Apr 1st, 2025 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A fire caused by a burst gas pipe spread to several homes and sent a fireball soaring into the sky outside Malaysia's largest city Tuesday, injuring more than 100 people. The towering inferno near a gas station in Putra Heights outside Kuala Lumpur was visible for kilometers (miles) and lasted for several hours. It happened during a public holiday as Muslims, who are the majority ...
Source: bostonglobe.com