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Ukrainian forces have frequently targeted vessels, ports, and other infrastructure in and around the peninsula, which voted to join Russia in 2014 A Turkish-flagged fishing boat sank after being attacked in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea, leaving one crew member dead and four others injured, Türkiye’s Coast Guard has said.In a statement on X, the Coast Guard Command said the trawler DURU 67 came under attack on Friday near Sevastopol. A nearby fishing boat, BURAK KAYA, rescued five wounded crew members from the sinking vessel and headed for the Turkish port of Inebolu. One sailor, who was in…

Richard Gere went to Germany to attack the United States’ crackdown on illegal immigration. “Did you ever imagine that someone as crazy as this would become President of the United States?” the actor asked an audience of foreigners on Thursday. “I think the term I was actually given today — apparently the U.S. government is calling aliens,” Gere said at the launch of a joint migration initiative by the Hertie School Centre for Fundamental Rights and The Gere Foundation in Berlin, Germany, according to a report by The Hill. “Aliens, that’s the latest. It had been vermin, now it’s aliens,” the…

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) responded to a recent report in the New York Times revealing that several ex-girlfriends of Maine Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner described his behavior as “unsettling.” Collins called the allegations against Platner “troubling.” In a video shared on X by Connor Clement, a reporter with WMTWTV News, Collins was asked for her reaction to the New York Times report. Collins stated that Platner “has a lot of questions to answer.” “Your presumptive challenger in November’s election, Graham Platner, another scandal — I guess you would say, coming out in the New York Times yesterday. What’s your reaction…

Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and other executives have said AI advances could weaken biosecurity barriers Executives from leading AI companies have joined biotechnology experts in an urgent call to mandate safety screening for synthetic DNA purchases. In a public letter addressed to the US Congress, the signatories argue that rapid advances in AI could increase the risk of biological weapons being developed.The appeal published earlier this week was signed by Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Microsoft AI’s Mustafa Suleyman and Eric Horvitz. They were joined by dozens of experts from the biotech, DNA synthesis,…

LONDON (AP) – British police said Saturday that six more people have been charged with violent disorder at a protest over the stabbing death of a university student who was handcuffed by officers as he lay dying. Police were pelted with chairs, cans, rocks and flares on Tuesday by some of the hundreds of people attending a protest in the English southern coastal city of Southampton, where 18-year-old Henry Nowak was killed in December. Many in Britain and beyond were angered by police body-worn video showing Nowak being handcuffed moments before he became unconscious and subsequently died. Nowak’s death has…

Vice President JD Vance has spoken out against “the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants” in the United Kingdom after the brutal death of student Henry Nowak, the second U.S. intervention on “civilisational decline” in Britain in 24 hours. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer attempted to kick back against the President Donald Trump Administration and American concern for the country’s descent into chaos on Friday night, characterising comments from Washington as political interference and even an attempt to “stir up division on our streets”. U.S. Vice President JD Vance made one of the present Trump Administration’s…

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit (WLS) kicked off on Friday in the Alamo City. More than 2,500 attendees are expected to attend the WLS over the weekend, which will focus on wellness, purpose, and faith. Breitbart Texas observed a flurry of activity as the summit began on Friday at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter located along the famous downtown River Walk. At around noon, young women began the registration process and entered the conference area, which had been adorned with signage displaying the theme of this year’s summit, “Holistic, “Empowered”, and “Redeemed”, which form the…

A second case of the flesh‑eating New World screwworm has been confirmed in Texas, only miles from the Mexican border, prompting Canada to shut its border to Texas livestock and Governor Greg Abbott to declare a state of disaster over what he warns is an “imminent threat.” The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Friday that a second infestation of screwworm larvae had been found in a calf in Zavala County, Texas. The second finding took place on the ranch near the Texas-Mexico border, about 5.6 miles from the case found earlier this week. The discovery of the second incident…

The $1.6 billion high-end development has sparked anger over the planned location near a protected coastal area Thousands of Albanians took to the streets of the capital, Tirana on Thursday for the fourth consecutive day of protests against a controversial luxury resort project linked to Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump.The €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) development is being spearheaded by Kushner’s investment firm, Affinity Partners, and includes projects on Sazan Island and an undeveloped stretch of coastline near the Vjosa-Narta protected area in the south of the country. The wetland is home to flamingos, seals, and sea…

The Canadian owner of a 2024 Lucid Air Pure has prevailed in a lemon law arbitration case that compelled Lucid to cancel his lease and reclaim the vehicle approximately 18 months into a four-year agreement. Among many issues with the EV, the company told him he can’t park an EV outside in the wintertime and expect it to function properly. AutoBlog reports that the owner, who shared his experience on the Lucid Owners forum, secured a victory that is generating significant attention in part because of the manner in which Lucid’s legal representatives reportedly handled the proceedings. According to his…