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Max Matza & Regan Morris BBC News, Washington state and Los Angeles Moment BBC interview is interrupted by tsunami siren Many Hawaiians heeded official advice to leave coastal areas after a powerful earthquake thousands of miles away near Russia caused tsunami waves to reach the US state and other parts of the Pacific. Waves several…
Fans of legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne are paying their respects to the heavy metal icon today as his funeral procession makes its way through Birmingham, England. Osbourne, who died last week at the age of 76, grew up in Birmingham, and the city in central England is where Black Sabbath was formed. “Ozzy…
NewsFeed It’s been a year since racist and Islamophobic riots shocked the UK, following false claims that three girls at a dance class were killed by a Muslim migrant. Al Jazeera’s Ruby Zaman spoke to the imam of the Southport Mosque which came under attack to find out how the community is coping. Published On…
Adidas shoes are displayed at a DSW store on January 31, 2024 in Novato, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Shares of Adidas fell Wednesday after the German sportswear giant flagged a double-digit million euro hit from U.S. tariffs in the second quarter and warned that current import levies will push up the cost of its…
Share No ‘wave of consequence’ so far, Hawaii governor says Jennifer Jett and Bella LoBue Hawaii has so far “not seen a wave of consequence, which is a great relief to us,” Gov. Josh Green told reporters. “It’s kind of a blessing to not be reporting any damage.” But he cautioned that “we have seen…
YouTube will be included in Australia’s world-first social media ban for children under 16, after the government ditched a previous exemption for the platform. The video sharing site was set to be excluded from the ban – which will limit TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X and Snapchat and is due to start in December. Under the…
A powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit near Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting Japan’s meteorological agency to issue a tsunami alert and the National Weather Service to issue a tsunami warning for the state of Hawaii and parts of Alaska on Wednesday. A tsunami advisory was also issued for parts of Alaska and the entire West Coast, stretching from…
BREAKINGBREAKING, Quake strikes 136km east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in Russia’s far east, according to US Geological Survey. Tsunami alerts have been issued in multiple countries after a powerful earthquake off the Russian coast, with waves of 3-4 metres reported in Russia’s far east. A tsunami measuring 3-4 metres high was recorded in parts of Russia’s Kamchatka…
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai during the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 10, 2023. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives are pushing employees to act with more urgency in their use of artificial intelligence as the company looks for ways to cut costs. That was the message…
The University of California, Los Angeles announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement in a discrimination lawsuit brought by Jewish students and a faculty member, agreeing to pay more than $6 million. The plaintiffs, who brought the lawsuit in June 2024, accused the university of failing to take action when pro-Palestinian protesters set up…
