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The crash occurred in Waller County, near the town of Katy, and close to the Houston Executive Airport, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Sheriff Troy Guidry confirmed to local media that all 21 passengers and crew had made it out safely, though one person had been hospitalized …

Clips posted by NBC correspondent Laura Strickler from outside the palatial residence, said to be belonging to Deripaska, show officers wearing masks and FBI windbreakers standing guard at the perimeter.  In 2018, Deripaska was targeted by the US Treasury Department sanctions after officials claimed he acted as a proxy for …

As Germany’s biggest news outlet appoints Johannes Boie, 37, its new editor-in-chief today, having finally sacked former boss Julian Reichelt over allegations of sexual impropriety at work, those young female interns and junior reporters might claim victory. But his departure was really all about the business. Nothing more. The publishing …

The New York-based researchers, who had previously projected the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency to hit $100,000 by the year’s end, now say that the ProShares ETF may attract substantial inflows from investors, thus boosting the price of bitcoin. According to Fundstrat, the new bitcoin futures ETF will deliver higher first-year …

Speaking on Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Beijing firmly opposed the US continuously exaggerating the “China threat theory.” He stated that Beijing’s only interest was self-defense, and claimed it would not engage in a nuclear arms race with any country.  “China’s development of necessary military capabilities is …

Speaking to EU officials at the European Parliament, Polish leader Mateusz Morawiecki accepted that the chamber “did not meet our expectations,” agreeing to dissolve the “mechanisms that were introduced.”  The announcement by Poland’s prime minister marks the conclusion of a row between Warsaw and Brussels over concerns that its disciplinary …

That’s according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who told the press at the annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi on Tuesday that Moscow is not to blame for the ever-worsening relationship between Russia and the military bloc. “We didn’t start the deterioration of relations, either …

Irmgard Furchner is the first woman to go on trial for decades over crimes committed by the Nazis, having been charged with complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people at the Stutthof concentration camp, in occupied Poland, where she served as a secretary. The 96-year-old went on the …

Facebook has been in hot water in recent weeks, after former employee Frances Haugen blew the whistle and lambasted the company for not doing enough to tackle harmful content and putting profit above the wellbeing of its users. A series of reports were simultaneously published in the media, revealing the …

Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said there were three options available to the EU after Poland challenged the primacy of the bloc’s laws over its national law.  “This ruling calls into question the foundations of the European Union. It …