Author: Prima News

 French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday ​it would be unrealistic to ‌launch a military operation to force open the Strait of Hormuz, ​after U.S. President Donald ​Trump challenged U.S. allies to ⁠work towards reopening it. “Some ​people defend the idea of ​freeing the Strait of Hormuz by force via a military operation, a ​position sometimes expressed by ​the United States, although it has varied,” ‌Macron ⁠told reporters during a trip to South Korea. “This was never the option we have ​supported because ​it ⁠is unrealistic,” he added. “It would take forever, ​and would expose all ​those ⁠who go through…

Greek mother Georgia ​Efstathiou has tried everything to loosen the grip that social media has on her 14-year-old son: heart-to-heart talks; ‌internet-free time; confiscating his phone. Arguments flare as she fights the allure of his screen and its videos and messages. Now, Efstathiou may be getting the help she desperately wants. In the coming days, the Greek government is expected to announce a social media ban for children under 15, joining the ​growing ranks of nations seeking to shield young children from addiction and online abuse. “Ban them, shut them down. We’ve reached our ​limits… We parents need help,” said Efstathiou, 43,…

President Donald Trump took the short trip from the White House to the U.S. Supreme Court with his signature priority of cracking down on immigration largely intact, given repeated interventions by the nation’s highest judicial body in his favor. By the time he left, his luck may have run out. With Trump looking on from the public section of the ​courtroom – a historic first for a sitting president – most of the nine justices seemed unwilling on Wednesday to let him proceed with what may be the most audacious piece of his restrictive immigration agenda. At issue during the ‌arguments was his executive order that would deny birthright citizenship…

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan on Thursday rejected an appeal by a ​prominent opposition politician who is serving ‌a nine-year prison sentence, his lawyer told Reuters. Tofig Yagublu, 65, is a member of the opposition ​Musavat party and has been jailed ​numerous times over three decades for protesting ⁠against the government of the South Caucasus ​country. Yagublu was arrested in December 2023 and ​convicted in March last year of fraud and document forgery. His supporters say the case is politically ​motivated, while the authorities maintain he was ​rightly convicted of crimes. His lawyer, Nemat Karimli, said the ‌original ⁠trial was…

Taiwan will strengthen its defences of the ​Pratas as China steps up its activities around the islands which lie at the top ‌end of the South China Sea, the minister in charge of Taiwan’s coastguard said on Thursday. Lying roughly between southern Taiwan and Hong Kong, the Pratas are seen by some security experts as vulnerable to Chinese attack due to their distance – more ​than 400 km (250 miles) – from mainland Taiwan. The Pratas, an atoll which is also a Taiwanese national ​park, are only lightly defended by Taiwan, and its coastguard has that responsibility rather ⁠than the…

Lithuania ​is preparing a ‌request to the United States for cooperation in its investigation ​into potential human ​trafficking with links to ⁠late sex offender , ​the Baltic country’s Prosecutor ​General Vita Grunskiene said on Thursday. “We are preparing to ​send a request for ​legal aid to the U.S.“, ‌Grunskiene ⁠told Lithuania‘s Ziniu radio.Investigators have interviewed around 20 people as part of ​the ​probe ⁠but prosecutors have not pressed charges ​against anyone, she ​said, ⁠and called on any victims of the suspected ⁠trafficking ​to come ​forward to authorities.

A man convicted of participating in an attack on a classified military ​facility during January’s protests in Iran was ‌executed on Thursday, the judiciary’s news outlet Mizan said, after his appeal was rejected and the Supreme Court upheld ​his sentence. The judiciary said Amirhossein Hatami was found ​guilty of entering a restricted military site in ⁠Tehran, damaging and setting fire to the facility, ​and attempting to seize weapons and ammunition — charges ​he admitted during interrogation, Mizan reported. The first deputy chief of the Judiciary, Hamzeh Khalili, said last month that cases linked to ​January protests – a nationwide anti-government…

Eight Muslim-majority countries “strongly condemned” Israel’s move to pass a law making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in ​military courts of deadly attacks, a joint statement released by Pakistan ‌said on Thursday. The law, passed by Israel’s parliament on Monday, will apply to Israelis convicted of murder whose attacks are aimed at “ending Israel’s existence”, meaning it would mete out ​the death penalty for Palestinians but not for Jewish Israelis who ​committed similar crimes, critics say. Eight Muslim-majority countries “strongly condemned” Israel’s move to pass a law making death by hanging a default sentence for Palestinians convicted in ​military courts…

Four astronauts blasted off ​from Florida ​on Wednesday on ⁠NASA’s Artemis ​II mission, ​a high‑stakes 10-day trip around ​the moon ​that marks the ‌United ⁠States’ boldest step yet toward returning ​humans ​to ⁠the lunar surface ​this ​decade ⁠before China’s first crewed ⁠landing.

 “Bob’s Burgers” voice actor and comedian Eugene Mirman suffered serious injuries after crashing his car into a toll plaza and being pulled from the fiery wreckage by a state trooper assigned to protect the governor of New Hampshire. The crash happened just before noon Tuesday when a northbound electric vehicle struck the Bedford Toll Plaza and caught fire, New Hampshire State Police said. Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte and her security detail came upon the crash soon after, and a trooper and two others pulled Mirman from the burning car through a window, said State Police Col. Mark Hall. The governor, who left her vehicle…