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A small police plane has crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing all six people on board.The plane was conducting a test flight to prepare for parachute training in Hua Hin district before it crashed about 8am on Friday, Royal Thai Police spokesperson Archayon Kraithong said.Officials did not immediately share the model of the propeller plane, but photos from the scene appear to show a Viking DHC-6 Twin Otter.The plane crashed near Hua Hin Airport, said the public relations department of Prachuab Kiri Khan province.The photos show the plane in the sea about 100m off…

SEOUL: South Korea and the United States agreed to craft a trade package aimed at removing new US tariffs before the pause on reciprocal tariffs is lifted in July, Seoul’s delegation in Washington said after a first round of trade talks. The US and South Korea had a “very successful” meeting on Thursday (Apr 24), US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said afterwards. “We may be moving faster than I thought, and we will be talking technical terms as early as next week,” he told reporters. Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with South Korean Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The rumors that Shedeur Sanders would fall out of the first round were very true.The Colorado quarterback went unselected in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday night.Sanders, at one point, was considered to be the 1B to Cam Ward’s 1A. Ward separated himself, and went first overall to the Tennessee Titans. Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders celebrates after an overtime victory over Baylor in an NCAA college football game Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024, in Boulder, Colo.  (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)But, in recent days, it was becoming apparent that teams did not…

These are the key events on day 1,156 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Here is where things stand on Friday, April 25: Fighting Russian missiles and drones killed 12 people in Kyiv, in the biggest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital. The attack involved 145 drones and 70 missiles, including 11 ballistic missiles, according to Ukrainian forces. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia is using its air strikes on Ukraine’s cities to cover advances by its ground forces, citing military leaders. President Zelenskyy said via social media that one of the ballistic missiles fired at Kyiv was made…

U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., urged people to call and threaten congressional lawmakers over the Trump administration’s immigration policies following a visit to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Thursday.Earlier in the day, Wilson visited ICE Krome Detention Center in Miami before holding a news conference on Instagram Live.”So I’ve been giving out the phone numbers to the House of Representatives and to the Senate,” she said. “It’s one number that number you call and you threaten it, and you say, this is wrong. This is not America. This is not what we stand for. We need a change.…

The Primary School opened in 2016, just a couple miles from Facebook’s headquarters. Its mission was to serve as a tuition-free hub where children from low-income families could be educated and have access to health care and social workers under one roof.Dr. Priscilla Chan, a pediatrician married to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, worked with Meredith Liu, an educator and friend, to build the school in East Palo Alto, Calif., a diverse town that rarely reaps the benefits of its far wealthier Silicon Valley neighbors.They talked about how low-income children were more likely to have experienced trauma early in…

As Canadians prepare to vote in the federal election on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump has resumed his attacks on the country’s auto sector and sovereignty, prompting Canada’s party leaders to once more stress they will fight to protect both. On Wednesday, Trump told reporters it was possible his 25 per cent tariffs “could go up” for cars made in Canada, before repeating his assertion that Canada should be a U.S. state.While the president’s escalation of his trade war on Canada and countries around the world has continued throughout the federal campaign, his rhetoric around Canada’s sovereignty has largely quieted…

Karl-Anthony Towns has scored 31 points and Jalen Brunson 30 to give the visiting New York Knicks a 118-116 victory over the Detroit Pistons in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round NBA playoff series.OG Anunoby also put up 22 points for the Knicks, who hold a 2-1 lead heading into Game 4 of the best-of-seven series on Sunday in Detroit.The Pistons have not won a home playoff game since May 2008.Brunson, who averaged 35.5 points in the first two games, also had nine assists and seven rebounds in Game 3.Cade Cunningham and Tim Hardaway Jr. led Detroit with 24…

Tariffs are not the only threat to business for big companies selling coffee in the United States. On Thursday, a watchdog group petitioned the Trump administration to block coffee imports that it says are produced with forced labor akin to modern-day slavery in Brazil, the world’s largest coffee grower.The petition to Customs and Border Protection, filed by the nonprofit Coffee Watch, names Starbucks, by far the largest coffee retailer in the country, as well as Nestle, Dunkin’, Illy, McDonald’s and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, the owner of Peet’s, as companies that rely on potentially dubious sources. It asks the Trump administration…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday that the Kremlin is “ready to reach a deal” with the U.S. on Ukraine, though he also said some elements need to be “fine tuned.””The President of the United States believes, and I think rightly so, that we are moving in the right direction,” Lavrov said in an interview Thursday with “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”The comments came after Russia struck Kyiv overnight Thursday, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 70, in the deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital in months as President Trump pushes a proposal for an…