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One killed in train accident near The Hague, 30 injured

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

A passenger train carrying 50 people was unable to keep its wheels on Tuesday (4 April) morning in the Netherlands after it struck construction equipment.Rescue teams were seen transporting the injured to the scene at Voorschoten (a village near The Hague), in the pre-dawn darkness. According to emergency services, the accident occurred at 3:25 AM (0125 GMT).Dutch radio heard that 19 people had been taken to hospital by a spokesperson from the fire department. The emergency services reported that other people were being treated right away.According to ANP news agency, the front carriage of the night train between Leiden and The Hague was derailled and ploughed into the ground. It said that the second carriage was on its sides and that a fire started in the rear carriage, but it was soon extinguished.There were conflicting reports on the cause of the accident.An earlier report stated that the passenger train collided with a freight railroad. Erik Kroeze, spokesperson for Dutch Railwa...

Miss Manners: Our landlady took dozens of our beloved plants. How do we get them back?

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

DEAR MISS MANNERS: When the pandemic started, we had to leave the country we were living in with just a few days’ notice, thinking we’d be back in a few months.The woman who acts as our landlord took about 45 of our plants to her apartment to care for while we were gone. This was an amazing collection we cultivated over about five years, at significant expense.Due to COVID and immigration restrictions, it has actually taken us 15 months to return. We were just recently offered our old jobs back with a work permit, and it looks like we will be here for at least two years.The woman who has our plants has not mentioned them once. Is it too late to ask for them back, assuming they’re not all dead? Or do we just start over?GENTLE READER: It’s not too late to ask, but it is too late to expect much.Related ArticlesAdvice | Miss Manners: I was embarrassed when everyone in the post office focused on me Advice | Miss Manners: I’m embarr...

Dear Abby: My dad is going to go berserk when he sees how my wife altered his photo

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

DEAR ABBY: Every year, my wife makes a photo book of the family and sends it to everyone.This year, she included a picture taken during a nephew’s birthday party. In it, my father is wearing a politically charged T-shirt; my wife photoshopped out the offending (to us) message.When I asked her to not do that, but instead to remove the entire photo, she refused. She said there were no other good photos from the party, so her only option was to remove the message on the shirt.I’m opposed because my father will be angry when he realizes his shirt has been altered in the photo. He will then bring it up at every opportunity and berate me, my wife and even my mother about how terrible it was to do that, and for us not to bother ever sending him another photo book again, despite my mother looking forward to it every year.What is your advice for us?OUT OF FOCUS IN FLORIDARelated ArticlesAdvice | Dear Abby: My mother-in-law told me her secret, and then died. Should I re...

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Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

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Youngkin to meet with Taiwan’s leader during trade mission

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin will lead his first international trade mission later this month, a trip to Asia that will include a meeting with the president of Taiwan, his office said Tuesday.From April 24 through April 29, Youngkin and the Virginia delegation accompanying him will visit Taipei, Taiwan; Tokyo; and Seoul, South Korea. In addition to meeting President Tsai Ing-wen, Youngkin will meet government officials, strategic business associations, company executives and industry leaders, his office said.“I’m excited to represent the Commonwealth in my first trade mission to Asia that will focus on economic development opportunities, our shared priorities and national security,” Youngkin said in a statement. “Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea represent critical markets that will advance economic growth and prosperity in Virginia. In strengthening these relationships, we are not only reaffirming our commitment to our allies but also strengthening the ...

Billy Porter reflects on ‘Pose,’ ‘Kinky Boots’ ahead of ‘Black Mona Lisa’ tour at DC’s Warner Theatre

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

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OPINIÓN | Las imágenes del histórico día de Trump cuentan una historia sorprendente

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

(CNN) — Los helicópteros de los medios de comunicación planeaban mientras una hilera de vehículos todoterreno recorría a toda velocidad la FDR Drive de Manhattan. Una multitud de periodistas, simpatizantes y curiosos esperaban en el Tribunal Penal de Manhattan, rodeados de agentes de policía. Todos esperaban la llegada del acusado.Puede que el ambiente fuera inusual –los miles de neoyorquinos que pasan por el tribunal cada año rara vez llaman mucho la atención–, pero lo que ocurrió dentro fue un proceso ordinario: un acusado se entregó, fue detenido y se le tomaron las huellas dactilares y compareció ante un juez para escuchar los cargos y presentar una declaración de culpabilidad.El espectáculo exterior –y el que seguramente evolucionará a medida que el expresidente Donald Trump intente hacerse con el control de la historia de su acusación– podría tentar a los observadores a ver la detención de Trump como un acontecimiento extraordinario. Y es histórico: ningún expresidente h...

Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell arrested amid SNP finances probe

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

LONDON — Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party and husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, has been arrested in connection with an investigation into the party’s finances. In a statement released Wednesday, Police Scotland said a “58-year-old man has today, Wednesday, 5 April 2023, been arrested as a suspect in connection with the ongoing investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party.”It added: “The man is in custody and is being questioned by Police Scotland detectives.” Multiple Scottish media outlets, including the BBC, confirmed the man was Murrell, who ran the internal machinery of SNP for almost 24 years until he quit during the recent SNP leadership contest. Police officers have been investigating the SNP’s finances for several months. Sturgeon shocked Scotland when she announced her departure as First Minister in February. Several police officers were seen outside th...

Zelenskyy visits Warsaw, against backdrop of angry Polish farmers

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Warsaw on Wednesday, where he will meet his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda in his first official visit to Poland since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine.Ukraine’s leader will discuss issues such as tensions over increased grain exports to Poland — something that’s becoming a political problem as it’s annoying Polish farmers — as well as the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, supplying more weapons to Kyiv and Ukraine’s tighter integration with the EU, said Polish government spokesperson Piotr Müller.“We want to conduct these talks in the spirit of thinking about the future,” presidential foreign policy adviser Marcin Przydacz said. Zelenskyy choosing Warsaw, “shows what role we play in international politics today,” the adviser added. Zelenskyy has been in Poland before, usually in transit to other destinations or in rapid unofficial visits; this is his first “official” trip, according t...

Students allowed back into MIT dorm after bomb threat

Published Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:11:08 GMT

Students are allowed back into Simmons Hall at MIT after a bomb threat was called in early Wednesday morning. Several students who live in the dorm told 7NEWS they woke up around 2:30 a.m. to fire alarms going off. Some said they didn’t think it was serious until MIT alerted that there was a bomb threat and they were evacuating the building.Emergency responders searched the building and officers told the students to wait down the street. Police have not said if they found anything or why a bomb threat was called to Simmons Hall.No additional information has been released.