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One person has been killed, seven injured and nearly 200 stranded in midair when a pylon supporting cable cars collapsed outside the Turkish resort city of Antalya.Helicopters equipped with night vision were called in to rescue 184 people still stranded in the cable car system’s cabins, Antalya mayor Muhittin Bocek said in a statement late on Friday.A rescue team tries to reach the passengers of a stranded cable car. Photograph: AP“Our specialised teams are here. God willing, we will rescue them all in a short time,” Bocek said.The death and injuries happened when one of the cabins in the cable…

Ireland and Spain have reiterated their intention to forge an alliance of countries that will soon recognise Palestine as a nation state.The Irish taoiseach, Simon Harris, and Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, vowed on Friday to muster international support for a two-state solution in Israel and Palestine.The two leaders held bilateral talks in Dublin to inject momentum into a diplomatic offensive inside and outside the EU.Recognition of Palestinian statehood “is coming much closer”, Harris told a joint press conference. Ireland would move with Spain and other countries “when the time is right”, he said, without giving a timeline or naming…

The Italian designer famed for his rich and gaudy prints in the 1990s has died aged 83. We look back at his life and clothes Chloe Mac Donnell Main image: Roberto Cavalli before the launch of his Fall/Winter 2005-06 women’s collection at the 2005 Milan fashion week. Photograph: Reuters Fri 12 Apr 2024 22.23 CEST Last modified on Fri 12 Apr 2024 22.26 CEST Source link

Returning to the top level of professional tennis and trying to regain confidence and rhythm after a long injury layoff can be difficult under the best of circumstances. It’s an even bigger challenge for Emma Raducanu, whose career so far has been completely devoid of rhythm and order.However, under the pressure of representing her country and herself, Raducanu took a big step forward in both her return and development, posting her best performance of the year, defeating world No. 23 Carlo Caroline Garcia, the score is 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.Raducanu scored his first top-30 victory on clay as Great Britain drew…

Donald Trump is doing his best Wizard of Oz imitation. These days, Trump is not looking like the “winner” he needs voters to believe him to be. Like the title character in L Frank Baum’s 1900 children’s fantasy and the 1939 movie, there is less there than meets the eye. The 45th president’s lead in the polls evaporates while his cash stash shrinks.His upcoming felony fraud trial in Manhattan looms. For the record, he is zero for three in his bids to adjourn the trial, and lawyers are expensive.At the same time, the stock price of Trump Media & Technology…

Late-night hosts talk Donald Trump’s banter at Chick-fil-A, his delay tactics in court and Republican hypocrisy with outrage over Arizona’s abortion ban from 1864.Jimmy KimmelFrom Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel looked forward to the start of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial next Monday in New York. “All his many efforts to delay it have failed,” he remarked on Thursday evening. “His only move left is to have sex with everyone in the court and pay them $130,000 to keep their mouths shut.”Trump has lost three appeals in as many days to delay the trial. “He does this in every trial to gum…

timeDire forecasts for Aintree rainfall this week have not come to pass, but Saturday’s game will still be the toughest in 23 years and only those who stay outright will be considered for supporter’s shortlists.The betting markets have done a lot of the legwork in this regard, as all but a few contestants with odds of 33-1 or below have Endurance as one of their strongest suits. Narrowing it down to three or four leading candidates is a much bigger problem, though, and ultimately comes down to the individual bettor’s idea of ​​what might be needed.Lucinda Russell pulled off a…

Salman Rushdie has said that his first thought upon seeing the man who would stab him on stage in August 2022 was: “So it’s you. Here you are.”“It felt like something coming out of the distant past and trying to drag me back in time, if you like, back into that distant past, in order to kill me,” said the Indian-born British-American author of books including The Satanic Verses and Midnight’s Children.Rushdie was about to give a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state on 12 August 2022 when a man rushed on stage and stabbed him about…

We are in our mid-80s and have been together for 12 years.Our relationship journeys to our meeting point were utterly different. My partner has two marriages behind her as well as a long-term partner. Mine was a marriage of over 40 years. My partner and I were colleagues for many years before our retirements.The issue/opportunity is that we have, between us, at least a shoebox full of love letters from our various relationships. One of mine was from a teenage crush in the late 1950s and with whom I still have the occasional chat.So what to do with them?Should our…

Manchester City are likely to capitalize on Lucas Paqueta’s desire to leave West Ham United this summer as long as the Football Association withdraws its investigation into alleged betting irregularities before the transfer window closes.It is understood Paqueta’s contract contains an £85m release clause, which comes into effect in June, and he is keen to find a new challenge after spending two seasons at the London Stadium. The Brazil international was close to joining Manchester City last summer, but the transfer fell through following an FA investigation into suspicious betting activity, and Guardiola has not given up on his interest…