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Carter was in the White House from 1977-1981 and lived longer after his term in office than any other US president. Jimmy Carter, the former peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global advocate of human rights and democracy, has died at age 100. The Carter Center said the 39th president died on Sunday afternoon, more than a year after entering hospice care, at his home in Plains, Georgia, where he and his wife, Rosalynn, who died in November last year, lived most…

Jimmy Carter had such confidence in his improbable path to the White House that he bet Americans worn down by Vietnam and Watergate would welcome a new kind of president: a peanut farmer who carried his own bags, worried about the heating bill and told it, more or less, like it was. And for a time, the voters embraced him. Yet just four years later, in the aftermath of a presidency that was widely seen as failed, it sometimes seemed as if all that was left of Carter was the smile — the wide, toothy grin that helped elect him…

Meanwhile, his pro-EU predecessor, Salome Zourabichvili, has insisted she won’t stand aside. Zourabichvili on Saturday joined thousands of people across the country in forming human chains to protest the installation of the new president.  Speaking on Sunday, Zourabichvili said she would leave the presidential palace, but continued to insist the new presidency is illegitimate. “This building was a symbol only as long as a legitimate president was sitting here,” she said. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze last week threatened Zourabichvili with jail if she didn’t step aside.  Speaking on a podcast Friday, Zourabichvili said: “This election, and hence the inauguration…

Bahçeli has consistently styled himself the PKK’s sworn enemy, and his offer came as a shock. But the imprisoned leader appears willing to work with Bahçeli and Erdoğan, according to a statement on Sunday by the pro-Kurdish DEM Party, following a visit to Öcalan the day before. “I possess the necessary competence and determination to contribute positively to the new paradigm supported by Mr. Bahçeli and Mr. Erdoğan,” the DEM Party statement quotes Öcalan as saying.  “I am ready to take the necessary positive steps and make the required call,” the statement adds. Erdoğan has signaled his awareness of Bahçeli’s…

South Korea’s Transport Ministry said the plane was a 15-year-old Boeing 737-800 jet that was traveling from Bangkok and that the crash happened at just after 9 a.m. local time. Emergency workers pulled two people, both crew members, to safety, authorities said. Health officials said they are conscious and not in life-threatening condition. The pilot issued a mayday emergency call minutes before landing after the plane suffered a bird strike, officials said. The aircraft aborted a first landing attempt and then touched down without its landing gear deployed, sliding down the runway at high speed before hitting a wall at…

Putin said the airliner was attempting to land in Grozny amid Ukrainian drone attacks in the area. “Russian air defense systems repelled these attacks,” he added. The Azerbaijani president added that “some circles” in Russia had attempted to cover up the true nature of the plane crash by suggesting it was caused by a flock of birds or the explosion of a gas cylinder on the airliner.  “In other words, this clearly showed that the Russian side wanted to cover up the issue, which, of course, is unbecoming of anyone,” Aliyev said.  He added that the incident was “of course”…

The ban is the first of its kind to come into force in Europe, Vandenbroucke said, but Belgium is not alone. Australia has limited the sale of vapes to pharmacies and the U.K. has banned single-use vapes starting in June 2025. Vandenbroucke said he wants the changes to go further than Belgium. “We are really calling on the European Commission to come forward now with new initiatives to update, to modernize, the tobacco legislation,” he said. In June, 12 EU member countries — including the largest economies France and Germany — called on the Commission to push through already-delayed smoking…

Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has ramped up its campaign of so-called hybrid attacks — such as arson, cyber and information campaigns, or sabotage — throughout Europe.  Recent examples include the alleged cutting of energy and communications cables in the Baltic Sea, which German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius described as “sabotage.” In that case, as in many other examples of hybrid attacks, it is difficult for governments to quickly and definitively attribute the attacks to Moscow. The number of these types of attacks has reached a level that would previously have been considered “utterly unacceptable,” Appathurai…

The rising number of patients — especially young people — with mental health disorders dying by euthanasia has also spurred fierce debate in the Netherlands, Buijsen said. The number of euthanasias for patients with psychiatric disorders doubled over the last five years, from 68 to 138. Similar debates arise around cases of minors and patients with dementia, he said. But it’s not a one-size-fit-all. According to researchers at the University of Bologna, the proportion of euthanasia and assisted suicide on overall deaths “continues to vary widely” in countries where the practice has been legalized for years, “mainly due to the…

The Jeju Air passenger plane was carrying 181 people from the Thai capital Bangkok to the southern town of Muan where the accident happened. The death toll after a passenger plane skid off the runway at an airport in South Korea and burst into flames has risen to 47, according to local officials. The National Fire Agency said the fire has almost been put out but emergency crews are still trying to pull people from the Jeju Air passenger plane that was carrying 181 people from Bangkok to the southern town of Muan.Footage of the crash aired by YTN television showed…