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Russian officials started a tour of interviews with the United States representatives on Monday in Saudi Arabia, Russian state news reports reported, following a similar meeting on Sunday between American and Ukrainian delegations. The talks aim to resolve the details of a possible ceased fire in what could be a crucial step towards a full cessation of hostility in the Russian war with Ukraine.Last week Russia and Ukraine agreed to temporarily stop strikes on energy infrastructures, but how and when to implement that partial respite they are questions that still have to be decided while the attacks persist.The talks - held in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, with the American representatives that median - should focus on hammering these details and on safety for shipping in the Black Sea.Ukraine...

The mayor of Istanbul was imprisoned pending his trial for corruption accusations and removed from the position on Sunday, limping a contender potential in the next presidential elections of Turkey and the main rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was arrested at his home Wednesday, four days before being appointed presidential candidate of the political opposition of Türkiye. He denied the accusations against him, that Mr. Erdogan's opponents called a stratagem to hinder the presidential offer of a popular politician.The court ordered that Mr. Imamoglu was imprisoned with accusations of corruption pending a trial. Public ministries accused him of leading a criminal organization and supervising corruption, rigging and other financial misdeeds at the Town Hall....

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the nation health, on Saturday he instructed the leaders of the non -profit who founded to break down a web page that imitated the design of the centers for the control of diseases and the prevention site, but presented a case that the vaccines cause autism.The page had been published on an apparently recorded site on non-profit, the health defense for children of the anti-Vaccino group. Mr. Kennedy's action came after the New York Times asked for information on the page and after the news bounced on social media.The page was brought offline on Saturday evening. "Secretary Kennedy has commissioned the office of the General Consultant to send a formal question to the defense of children's health that requires the removal of their website," said the Depart...

At least three people were killed during a large attack of Russian drones in the Ukrainian capital during the night, they said local officials on Sunday, hours before the interviews mediated by the United States to discuss a partial fire would have started in Saudi Arabia.Multiple explosions shaken the capital, Kiev, during the night while the air defense units shot the arrival drones. The Ukrainian aeronautics said that Russia had launched almost 150 drones across the country and that it had knocked about 100. The statement could not be verified independently.On Sunday morning, Kiev's local authorities said that some drones and debris from others who were shot down had fallen on several buildings in the city, triggering fires. Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv, said three people were killed...

NASA made a bet a few years ago that commercial companies could bring scientific experiments to the moon with a lower budget than the agency.Last year, it was a bad bet. The first spatial vehicle financed by NASA completely missed the moon. The second has landed but has fallen.But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, in Texas, managed from start to finish.On March 16, the mood to the Firefly mission operations outside Austin was a mix of happy and melancholy. There was nothing else to worry about, nothing to do, except looking at the company's spatial vehicle to die.At a quarter of a million miles away, the sun had already placed itself on the mare crisis, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two...

The rockets were fired from Lebanon in Israel for the first time in months of Saturday, pushing the Israeli forces to go back to the southern Lebanon sites after hours, according to which they were linked to the Hezbollah militant group.At least six people in Lebanon were killed in the Israeli bombing and other injured, according to the declarations of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. The Israeli army said she launched a second cycle of attacks on Saturday evening.The attacks were the last example of how the renewed Israeli offensive to Gaza was rippling through the Middle East. They also risk further interrupting the return of tens of thousands of displaced residents on both sides of the border that had fled more than a year of fi...

Perhaps the most lasting public moment for Mrs. Dukakis during the campaign was a matter of debate placed on her. The Moderator of the debate, Bernard Shaw of the CNN, had asked Mr. Dukakis: "Governor, if Kitty Dukakis had been raped and assassinated, would you prefer an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?""No, no, Bernard," replied Dukakis without emotion before reaffirming his opposition to the death penalty and discuss his record on crime. The analysts called the response tone, one of the worst in the history of the presidential debate, and said they had contributed to sinking the chances of Mr. Dukakis against his opponent, the vice -president George HW Bush, who continued to win 40 states and the presidency.Kitty Dukakis was embarrassed, he later told journalists. The scandalous...

When it comes to tackling global conflicts, President Trump is a man in a hurry.Even before his inauguration, the president claimed the merit of what he called a "ceased the epic fire" in Gaza. He ran to convince Ukraine and Russia to quickly embrace a break in the fighting. And with Iran, Trump wants an agreement within two months to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon.It is the version of foreign policy of the "Flood The Zone" approach of the President to Washington, where he and his lieutenants used Blitzkrieg similar tactics to dismantle the bureaucracy, consolidate executive power and attack his political enemies. Also on the world phase, Trump embraced a haste foreign policy approach designed to quickly resolve the disputes he inherited.But his diplomatic impatience is no...

Il 4 marzo, un incaricato di Trump presso il Dipartimento degli Affari dei Veterani ha diffuso un promemoria per la leadership senior. L'agenzia, ha affermato, "si sarebbe trasferita in modo aggressivo" per migliorare l'efficienza, con un "obiettivo iniziale" di tagliare la forza lavoro ai livelli del 2019.La mattina dopo, qualcuno ha pubblicato una copia di questo promemoria di "riduzione in vigore" a un gruppo Reddit chiamato VeteransAffairs, una comunità online di 19.000 membri. La copia era difficile da seguire, una sequenza di foto scattate sul memo su uno schermo, ma il messaggio era abbastanza chiaro: circa 80.000 posti di lavoro sarebbero stati tagliati.Domande e commenti si sono riversati, alcuni sconcertati, alcuni frenetici. L'agenzia aveva mezzo milione di dipendenti in ospedal...

If it were not obvious that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by Israel believes he has an ally in his battle against the country's attorney general, his judges and even the head of his home security service, clarified on Wednesday evening."In America and Israel, when a strong right -wing leader wins the elections, the Deep State on the left wears the judicial system to counter the will of the people," he wrote in a post on social media. "They don't win in either of the two places! We are strong together."The Defiant, Trumpian Blast was the last proof of the fact that Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump are managing the same playbook book to achieve surprisingly similar goals: to neutral the judiciary, dismantle a supervision system that puts a check on their authority and discredit the prof...