Home InStyle, Fashion InStyle raise curtain on seven late-April events reinforcing Hong Kong’s role as an international platform for lifestyle products and creative businesses The fairs gather over 2,200 exhibitors from 17 countries and regions Eco-friendly products and services boost Hong Kong’s sustainable development credentials HONG KONG, Apr 20, 2024 – (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) […]
Iran’s top foreign affairs official dismissed by neighboring Israel as “toys” and said there was no plan to retaliate. downplayed the Israeli strike during an interview on Friday, hours after the impact.”What happened last night wasn’t a strike,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC News. “They were more like toys that our children play with […]
Ukraine has started developing drones capable of carrying up to one ton of explosives as the military sets its sights on retaking Crimea, a crown jewel in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions for the neighboring country. “These are already new generations of drones, on the improvement of which the team of SBU specialists worked and […]
EQS Newswire / 20/04/2024 / 12:00 UTC+8 Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Shines on Global Stage with Paris 100 Sponsorship, Promoting Chinese Craftsmanship to Celebrate 95 Years of Heritage (Hong Kong, China, 20 April, 2024) Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (“Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group”, the “Group” or the “Company”; SEHK stock code: […]
LAS VEGAS, NV, Apr 20, 2024 – (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) – Award-winning multimedia studio Moment Factory is proud to announce its latest collaboration with Phish: a groundbreaking four-night concert series at Sphere in Las Vegas. Running from April 18 to 21, the shows mark a bold step forward in live concert experiences, taking advantage of the venue’s next-generation technologies to showcase […]
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese autoworkers in Karachi on Friday, police said. They narrowly escaped the attack but three bystanders were wounded. Separately, an Afghan Taliban religious scholar was killed in an attack in the southwest of Pakistan the previous day. The attack on the van happened when […]
Fifteen British soldiers who allegedly lied to an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long conflict, will not face perjury charges, prosecutors said Friday. There was insufficient evidence to convict the soldiers or a former alleged member of the Irish Republican Army about their testimony before an inquiry into the […]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris organizers. During a break in heavy rain late Friday, a torchbearer lit a cauldron in front of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon, on the citadel that dominates the […]
ROME (AP) — An Italian court on Friday dismissed a long-running case against rescue ship crews of three humanitarian organizations, ending a long legal battle. The judges in the Sicilian city of Trapani decided not to proceed to trial against 10 crew members involved in the so-called Iuventa case, named after the rescue vessel operated […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 “egregious” violations of Iran sanctions, the announced on Friday.SCG Plastics Co. used U.S. banks to process $291 million in sales of high-density polyethylene resin from 2017 to 2018, according to the signed settlement agreement between […]
Dominican authorities on Friday ordered the arrest of a soldier accused of raping a 14-year-old Haitian girl while searching for immigrants in the country illegally near the upscale resort town of Punta Cana. The soldier, identified as Paulino de la Cruz, is one of 15 members of the Dominican Air Force who accompanied immigration inspectors […]
The United States is attempting to create a new military agreement with Niger that would allow it to remain in the country, weeks after the junta said its presence was no longer justified, two Western officials told Friday.The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, said Washington was […]
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The UN refugee agency said Friday that Cypriot efforts at sea to stop numerous Syrian refugee-laden boats departing Lebanon from reaching the European Union-member island nation must comply with international human rights laws and not endanger passengers. Cypriot authorities have reportedly dispatched police patrol vessels just outside Lebanese territorial waters to […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — An activist hacker group claims to have infiltrated computers at the country’s largest fertilizer plant to pressure the government to release political prisoners. The state-run Grodno Azot plant has made no comment on the claim by the Belarusian Cyber-Partisans group to have caused damage including destroying backup systems and encrypting internal […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — air force claimed Friday it shot down a Russian strategic bomber, but Moscow officials said the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to a malfunction after a combat mission.Neither claim could be independently verified. Previous Ukrainian claims of shooting down Russian warplanes during their more than two-year war have […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is rushing to finish big legislative and construction projects he promised before his term ends in September, and experts say officials are getting a bit sloppy amid the haste. This week, legislators from the governing Morena party mistakenly submitted the wrong bill on pension reform for […]
is downplaying Israeli strikes against their country, despite previously vowing total war in the event of the “tiniest invasion.” During a Friday speech, President Ebrahim Raisi did not mention the launched against the Isfahan region of Iran earlier the same day. Instead, Raisi focused on justifying Iran’s own offensive attacks. “Operation True Promise led to […]
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Constitutional Court on Friday banned President Milanović from becoming prime minister in case his center-left party manages to garner a majority after this week’s highly contested parliamentary election.The ballot on Wednesday ended inconclusively. The governing center-right Croatian Democratic Union, or HDZ, won the most votes but not enough to rule […]
The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated Friday that Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia due to an increase in migrants is a security matter that affects all 27 members of the European Union. She made these remarks during a visit to the southeastern Finnish border. “We are all aware […]
French athletes at the Olympics and Paralympics will be offered better protection for their mental health, with priority given to curbing online harassment and cyberbullying. France’s Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and Secretary of State for Digital Affairs Marina Ferrari have been discussing ways to ensure mental health is looked after at the July 26-Aug. 11 […]