LONDON — Reports on April Fools’ Day of the death of the world’s oldest living land animal — a 193-year-old tortoise called Jonathan — were greatly exaggerated. Jonathan is still kicking — albeit slowly — on the island of St. Helena. “It was a hoax,” Anne Dillon, head of communications on the island, told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I can just assure you that he is very much alive.” News of the Seychelles giant tortoise’s demise spread rapidly on social media on Wednesday. An account on X, falsely claiming to be by Joe Hollins, a veterinarian who had worked with the reptile…
Three in ten Americans said a stranger has fallen asleep on them during a flight in a recent travel survey. And nearly a fifth (18%) confessed they are actually guilty of leaning on a stranger and snoozing while on a plane in the past. With almost a quarter of respondents (24%) taking a spring break trip this year, and about three-quarters (73%) having a summer vacation on the books, Cabeau commissioned the survey of 2,000 American travelers with Talker Research to look at travel etiquette dos and don’ts, as well as travel day “must-haves” to make travel days as painless as possible. …
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AFTERSHOCKSBMKG head Teuku Faisal Fathani told journalists in the capital Jakarta there were 11 aftershocks, the biggest with a magnitude of 5.5.An AFP journalist in Manado on Sulawesi, about 300km west of Ternate by sea, said the shaking woke him and others in the city of around 450,000 people.”I immediately woke up and left my house. People (were) immediately scrambling outside. There is a school and the pupils rushed outside,” he said.The shaking persisted for “quite long” but he did not witness “significant damage”, he added.The PTWC had initially warned that tsunami waves of up to 1m were possible for…
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SEOUL: South Korea’s economy is on a “wartime footing” over the Iran war, President Lee Jae Myung said Thursday (Apr 2), after the government proposed a US$17.2 billion supplementary budget to tackle the crisis.Oil prices have surged amid the US-Israeli war on Iran, raising growth and inflation risks for South Korea, which is heavily reliant on Middle Eastern crude for around 70 per cent of its imports.”Our government is treating the economy as being on a wartime footing and is making all-out efforts to overcome the crisis,” Lee said in a budget speech to the National Assembly.”The current crisis is…
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he was working to clean up the “filthy” Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the National Mall, blaming the Biden administration for neglecting the Washington, D.C., landmark. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was working with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on the project, the latest in a series of beautification initiatives targeted by the Trump administration. SEWAGE SPILL SENDS E COLI SURGING IN THE POTOMAC RIVER NEAR DC “Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum and I are working on fixing the absolutely filthy Reflecting Pool between…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iran is pushing back on President Donald Trump’s claim that it requested a ceasefire, with an official calling the statement “false and baseless in a blunt public denial.Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, made the remarks rejecting Trump’s claim on Wednesday, according to a report on Iranian state television.Trump made the claim about Iran requesting a ceasefire in a Truth Social post Wednesday morning. But the president indicated that the U.S. will only entertain the prospect once the Strait of Hormuz is open for ships.”Iran’s New Regime President, much less Radicalized and…
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