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Daily Mail
2 days ago
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Gunman opens fire near Las Vegas's famous Bellagio Fountains - police warn to avoid the area
A gunman has opened fire near Las Vegas 's famous Bellagio Fountains, local media has reported. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said that their officers are responding to a shooting on the 3600 block of S. Las Vegas Boulevard. They have also asked people to avoid the area. Local media reported that cops have already blocked pedestrian and vehicle access to the area. More to follow.
RNZ News
4 days ago
- Politics
- RNZ News
Samoa's early election date confirmed
RNZ Pacific's Samoa correspondent Galumalemana Tipi Autagavaia says the Electoral Commissioner told local media on Thursday that the country's election will be held on the 29th of August. To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
Bloomberg
5 days ago
- Business
- Bloomberg
Colombia Bonds Drop on Reports That Fiscal Rule May be Suspended
Colombia's sovereign dollar bonds dropped across the curve on Thursday after local media reported that the government might suspend the fiscal rule that limited budget spending and helped steady the markets for more than a decade. Notes due in 2054 slipped 0.3 cent on the dollar, the biggest drop in two weeks, according to indicative pricing data compiled by Bloomberg. Local government peso bonds, or TES, also fell.
Daily Mail
03-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Brit tourist, 40, plunges to his death from third-floor Turkish hotel balcony day after 'argument with girlfriend'
A British man has been found dead in a hotel garden in Turkey after plunging from a third-floor balcony. The 41-year-old tourist was found lifeless by his girlfriend in his hotel in the town of Marmaris on the Mediterranean coast on Friday morning and was pronounced dead at the scene. The Brit and his girlfriend, who has not been named, had been seen arguing the day before his body was found, according to local media. His girlfriend had reportedly left the apartment following their fight while he stayed in the hotel room. She is said to have returned in the evening, but the Brit was no longer there. The next day, she stepped out into the balcony, where she found her boyfriend lying motionless in the garden below. Local police have opened an investigation into his death as they try to determine whether his death was an accident, suicide, or whether there was a third party involved. MailOnline has reached out to the Foreign Office for comment. Marmaris is a popular holiday destination on the Turkish coast among British holidaymakers, known for its stunning beaches and bustling nightlife. The tragedy comes after a British tourist was found dead under 'suspicious circumstances' in the bathroom of his Turkish hotel last month. The unnamed 43-year-old was found lying motionless in his hotel room by staff at the residence in the Konakli area of Alanya on Turkey's south coast. Staff immediately called for emergency services, who declared him dead at the scene. A forensic physician declared his death suspicious, and an investigation was launched. Also last month, a young British mother died in mysterious circumstances while holidaying with her family in Turkey, while a UK autopsy revealed that doctors had removed her heart without her family's knowledge. Beth Martin, 28, from Portsmouth, was rushed to hospital after she became 'delirious' just one day into a dream trip away with her husband Luke and two children, aged eight and five. She was quickly placed into critical care but tragically passed away around a day after she was first admitted on April 28. Beth's family claim they were kept in the dark about the seriousness of her condition and subsequent death - with Luke even being accused of 'poisoning' his wife by the Turkish authorities. And in a further sickening development, a UK autopsy later revealed Beth's heart had been removed after she passed away in Turkey, according to a GoFundMe page set up to raise money for her family. It is also understood the hospital where Beth was treated is now being investigated for potential negligence amid the raft of claims levelled against them. It's understood she was allergic to penicillin, with her loved ones alleging that doctors gave her the drug before her death. Beth's family have now been left desperately searching for answers about how and why she died - with Luke saying he has suffered the 'deepest level of trauma'. He said having to tell his young children they will never see their mother again 'broke him' and he described the ordeal as the 'worst week of his life'.
Jordan Times
18-05-2025
- Climate
- Jordan Times
Severe storms, tornadoes kill more than 25 in south-central US
A woman inspects damage from a tornado in London, Kentucky, on May 17, 2025 More than 20 people have died after severe storms swept through the southern US states of Missouri and Kentucky, officials and local media reports said May 17, 2025 (AFP photo) LONDON, UNITED STATES — Severe storms that tore through the US states of Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia left more than 25 people dead, leveling homes and businesses while knocking out power for tens of thousands, authorities say. At least 18 people were killed in Kentucky in the storms Friday night, state governor Andy Beshear posted on X, while officials in Missouri said another seven were dead people were also killed by falling trees in Virginia, local media Burns, 38, who lives with her husband and son in a trailer home in the town of London, Kentucky, fled to the basement of her sister's brick house while the storm destroyed 100 to 200 houses in the area."Things that have been here longer than I have, things that have been here for 30-plus years are just flat," Burns told AFP in a phone interview, her voice quavering."It's wild, because you'll look at one area and it's just smashed... totally flattened, like, not there anymore."Drone footage shared by local media showed scenes of devastation in London, with houses leveled and reduced to splinters and tree trunks standing bare, shorn of than 108,000 people were still without power across the three states late Kentucky, an area historically known for its coal mines, is one of the poorest regions in the country."A lot of us live in manufactured homes that aren't safe for tornado weather," said Burns. 'One of the worst storms'In Missouri, five people were killed in the major city of St. Louis, in what authorities said was one of the worst storms in its history, and two in Scott County, the State Highway Patrol said in a statement to severe weather was forecast for Sunday night and Saturday by a reporter whether it was the worst storm ever to hit St. Louis, Mayor Cara Spencer replied: "I would describe this as one of the worst storms, absolutely. The devastation is truly heartbreaking."She said 38 people in the city were injured and some 5,000 buildings one St. Louis neighborhood, a church was heavily damaged, according to CBS footage, and rescue workers continued to treat victims near the building Saturday morning."It's horrific for a tornado to come through here and cause this much damage to the residents and also to the church," Derrick Perkins, a pastor at the Centennial Christian Church, told CBS. "Our hearts are broken."Bruce Madison, who also works at the church, said the community was coming together in the face of the tragedy."Right now, we're just praying for... everybody that they're trying to find right now."While there were warnings ahead of the severe weather, Beshear had protectively declared a state of emergency Friday, the death toll may raise questions about whether sharp cuts by the Trump administration have left National Weather Service forecasting teams dangerously estimated 500 of the 4,200 NWS employees have been fired or taken early retirement this year, according to the Washington Post. The United States saw the second-highest number of tornadoes on record last year with nearly 1,800, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA], trailing only 2004.
