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Article informationauthor, Hafsa Khalilrole, BBC News3 hours agoA US Navy veteran from World War II who was visiting France for the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings has died, a veterans’ group has confirmed.Robert “Al” Persichitti, of Rochester, New York, suffered a medical emergency on a ship bound for Europe and was airlifted to a hospital in Germany on May 30. He died the next day at the age of 102.Remembered as a “great but humble man,” Persichitti served in Allied operations in Japan. Honor Flight, a veterans’ organization of which Perusic was a member, confirmed his death on social…

A spectacular waterfall in China that attracts millions of tourists every year has been flooded with more water due to an inconspicuous water pipe, officials appeared to acknowledge on Tuesday.According to its official website, Yuntai Waterfall in Henan Province, China, is visited by approximately 7 million tourists a year.At over 1,000 feet tall, it is also the tallest tower in Asia, according to its website.However, drone footage taken by hikers showed the falls from a high vantage point normally inaccessible to tourists, and also showed water gushing from a pipe at the edge of the falls. “This is the source…

Before the hate, she changed in peace, transforming out of her body and into herself. She started to look the way she felt. She saw it in her breasts, hair, skin, muscles, fat, bones. She knew the person in the mirror.Then she would go to the track — her refuge — and experience a different reality. As she ran, her legs would not fire the way they once did. She could not shift gears. She did a standard 150-meter acceleration drill, progressing from jog to stride to sprint every 50 meters. Her calf muscles begged her to stop. After the…

PARIS — Mondelez International executives expect inflation-weary U.S. consumers to respond to short-term price-cutting promotions and adapt to higher food prices across the board by shifting to more cost-effective retail channels.Speaking at Deutsche Bank’s dbAccess Global Consumer Conference in Paris, Mondelez Chairman and CEO Dirk van de Put and Chief Financial Officer Luca Zamarella were also optimistic about the company’s long-term growth prospects as prices stabilize and more consumers embrace the trend of snacking throughout the day as part of their meals.”Our areas of business are very vibrant,” Van de Put told Steve Powers, head of Deutsche Bank’s U.S. consumer…

Pictured from left to right are (front row) Dr. Harold Jeffcoat, Superintendent of the Van Buren School District, Dr. Sheila Jacobs, President of Arkansas Tech University’s Ozark Campus, (back row) Cody Harkness, Automation Technology Instructor at ATU-Ozark, Brianna Ingram, Associate Director of Academic Affairs at ATU-Ozark, and Myron Heckman, Director of Secondary Education Services for the Van Buren School District. Van Buren High School students will soon have the opportunity to learn automation technology and earn college credits through a partnership with Arkansas Tech University’s Ozark campus. Participants will complete 15 credits in Electrical Fundamentals, Introduction to Industrial Automation and…

According to prosecutors, on the night before the multimillion-dollar fraud trial was to conclude, a woman drove to the home of one of the jurors who was not there. When the juror’s relatives answered the door, the woman handed them a bag of gifts and told them to tell him she would get them another bag if he voted not guilty.Inside the white bag decorated with butterflies and flowers were piles of $100, $50 and $20 bills worth a total of $120,000, according to an FBI affidavit.The 23-year-old woman, a juror, called police immediately after returning home.Sunday night’s bribery attempt…

The 2024 election outcome will be very different to what the exit polls predicted. Indeed, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) still has a majority in the Indian lower house. What are the big stories from this election? Here are five charts that summarise them.BJP is down compared to 2019, while NDA alliance is up Prime Minister Narendra Modi met BJP president JP Nadda, TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar and other leaders during the NDA meeting at the Prime Minister’s House on June 5 (PTI via X/narendramodi) {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} This is the biggest factor influencing…

Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Two of Britain’s most prominent former judges have resigned from Hong Kong’s highest court as China continues its years-long crackdown on political dissent in the city.Former UK Supreme Court justices Sir Jonathan Saption and Sir Laurence Collins told the Financial Times this week that they had stepped down as non-permanent judges of Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal. Sumption, who was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2019, said he would make a statement “in due course” about why he was stepping down,…

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and other senior officials African National Congress Party The two parties held a crucial meeting on Thursday to decide whether to formally propose a “unity” government bringing together all the major parties to resolve the political impasse in Africa’s most industrialised country by a June 16 deadline.A government of national unity, the preferred choice of ANC officials, would evoke South Africa’s transition from apartheid white-minority rule to democracy in 1994. And the new president Nelson Mandela To promote unity in a divided country, he welcomed political dissenters, including the…

The T20 World Cup 2024 aims to take cricket to new heights apart from being the most inclusive global tournament with 20 teams. The tournament will be hosted in the West Indies and the United States, marking the first time that the United States will host a cricket tournament of this magnitude.Teams are still getting to grips with the conditions in North America, which are different to major cricket venues.In that regard, Pakistan has a huge advantage at the 2024 T20 World Cup thanks to the valuable experience gained by seven of their players in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL),…