Power has been restored to more than 98 percent of Puerto Ricans affected by a massive power outage, the US territory’s electric utility said on Wednesday. The power company blamed the New Year’s Eve blackout on a fault in an underground cable, but investigations are still under way. Source link
XRP is one of the “dinosaur cryptocurrencies” that reemerged after Donald Trump’s victory. Next year, ETFs based on the Ripple cryptocurrency could hit the market. Donald Trump’s victory in the United States elections revived investor enthusiasm for the digital asset market. In the days after the elections, and while bitcoin (BTC) continued to record all-time … Read more
Palm Beach, Florida – US President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he plans to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter. When Trump was asked about it while attending a New Year’s Eve party at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, he replied, “I’ll be there.” Asked if he had spoken to Carter’s family … Read more
A driver rammed a pickup truck into a crowd of New Orleans revealers early on New Year’s Day, killing 10 people and injuring more than 30 in what the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism. The driver was killed in a firefight with police following the attack around 3:15 am Wednesday along Bourbon … Read more
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara said in an end-of-year speech that French forces will withdraw from the West African nation in January, making it the latest country to weaken military ties with the former colonial power. French troops have been forced to depart from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, where military-led governments hostile to the … Read more
The European Commission said on Wednesday that Hungary has lost its entitlement to nearly €1 billion ($1.03 billion) of EU aid due to violations of the law. Earlier, the EU had pressured the country to change its laws to deal with conflicts of interest and corruption. Budapest was told it had to make the reforms … Read more
Washington: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discovered the largest stockpile of explosives in its history. This discovery was made at the request of a person from Virginia. A man named Brad Spafford was arrested by the FBI on December 17 for illegal possession of a short-barreled rifle. Documents submitted to the court stated … Read more
Syrians celebrated their first New Year after the fall of Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday as fireworks lit up the night sky above Damascus. In the capital’s main square, people brandished “revolution” flags, the country’s unofficial new emblem. Source link
A man “hellbent on creating carnage” drove a pickup truck at high speed into a crowd of New Year revellers in New Orleans on Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 35. The FBI is to take over the investigation to probe a “possible, improvised explosive device,” The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief … Read more
