Month: February 2023

A decommissioned aircraft carrier from the 1960s that has been floating offshore for three months since Turkey refused it entry to be scrapped there will be sunk in the Atlantic Ocean in waters under Brazil’s jurisdiction, the Brazilian Navy said on Wednesday.

The 32,000-ton Sao Paulo carrier had been towed by a tug to Europe but did not get past the Gibraltar straits, and was returned across the Atlantic after Turkey decided it was an environmental hazard.

FBI agents searched President Joe Biden’s vacation home in Rehoboth, Delaware, after classified documents were discovered in recent weeks at Biden’s Wilmington home and his old Washington, D.C., office.

Multiple outlets reported Wednesday morning that FBI personnel were at Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach conducting the search. Bob Bauer, an attorney for the president, confirmed the reporting saying the search was conducted with “the President’s full support and cooperation.” 

Bauer said: “Under DOJ’s standard procedures, in the interests of operational security and integrity, it sought to do this work without advance public notice, and we agreed to cooperate.

The words of French President Emmanuel Macron about the possible delivery of aircraft to Ukraine will only increase the “insatiable appetite” of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.

On Monday, Macron that Paris would consider sending more weapons, including warplanes, if Ukraine lodged a formal request. According to the president, in the issue of arms supplies, France proceeds from three criteria: usefulness and effectiveness of a particular type of weapon for the Ukrainian army, that supplies should not lead to an escalation of the conflict, and that they should not weaken the defense capability of the French army.

“It’s kind of absurd. Does the French president really believe that if weapons, heavy weapons, are supplied, it will not lead to an escalation of the situation? Such statements only increase the already insatiable appetite of Zelensky,” Zakharova told a briefing.

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, after taking a few swipes at former President Donald Trump to get some publicity, will formally announce she is running for president and will officially throw her hat in the ring for the Republican nomination on February 15 according to multiple media reports.

The Post and Courier saw an invitation to her kickoff event: “According to an invitation soon going out to her backers, Haley’s advertised “special announcement” will come Feb. 15 at The Shed at the Charleston Visitor Center, a downtown gathering spot that could draw hundreds of supporters into the heart of the city’s tourism district. The confirmation she is entering the race came Jan. 31 from a member of Haley’s inner circle.”

Authorities scanning a remote Australian highway for a tiny missing radioactive capsule have found it by the roadside, after a challenging search likened to trying to find a needle in a haystack.

State emergency authorities announced the discovery on Wednesday afternoon, six days after the capsule, containing highly radioactive Caesium-137, was discovered missing from a package sent hundreds of kilometers from a Rio Tinto mining site in northern Western Australia to the capital Perth.

“Locating this object was a monumental challenge – the search groups have quite literally found the needle in the haystack,” state Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said in a news conference Wednesday.