Gregg Wallace is to step away from presenting BBC cooking present MasterChef whereas complaints made by people about historic allegations of misconduct are probed.

Wallace, 60, has hosted the BBC cooking present alongside John Torode since 2005 and has since fronted quite a few different programmes, together with Contained in the Manufacturing facility, Large Weekends Away and Grocery store Secrets and techniques.

Among the many BBC Information complainants is former Newsnight host Kirsty Wark, who alleged he instructed jokes of a “sexualised nature” when she was competing on Superstar MasterChef in 2011.

Manufacturing firm Banijay UK stated the complaints had been made to the BBC this week, who at the moment are taking the claims “very severely” and utilizing “sturdy processes” to navigate the allegations made in opposition to the presenter.

A BBC spokesperson stated: “We take any points which can be raised with us severely and we have now sturdy processes in place to take care of them.

“We’re at all times clear that any behaviour which falls under the requirements anticipated by the BBC won’t be tolerated.

“The place a person is contracted immediately by an exterior manufacturing firm we share any complaints or considerations with that firm and we are going to at all times assist them when addressing them.”

Recorded episodes of MasterChef: The Professionals that includes Wallace shall be broadcast as deliberate.

Banijay UK stated Wallace is “dedicated to totally co-operating all through the method” of their investigation.

“While these are historic allegations, incidences delivered to our consideration the place these expectations are usually not met, are completely investigated and addressed appropriately,” they added.

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BBC Information despatched a letter to Wallace’s representatives on Tuesday (26 November) detailing allegations of inappropriate sexual feedback by 13 individuals who labored with him throughout a variety of exhibits over a 17-year interval.

Broadcaster Kirsty Wark, who was a Superstar MasterChef contestant in 2011, instructed the BBC Wallace instructed “sexualised” jokes throughout filming.

Wallace’s legal professionals have stated it’s “fully false” Wallace engages in behavious of a sexually harassing nature, the outlet reported.

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In October, Wallace hit again at experiences he made sexually inappropriate feedback to a feminine colleague on the BBC in 2018.

Wallace was accused of bragging about his intercourse life with spouse Anna Wallace, and taking his high off in entrance of the worker, in line with The Solar.

The TV character vehemently denied the accusations in a video he shared to Instagram, saying the allegations had been investigated by the BBC six years in the past.

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“My feedback had been discovered to be not sexual,” he stated. “I repeat not sexual. Thanks.”

Wallace, who says he’s “head over heels in love” along with his spouse Anna, 37, stated it was his precedence to make sure that it was clear that he was not “flirting” with anyone who is just not his spouse.

“One thing else that I really feel very strongly about – robust sufficient to be on [Instagram] – no one six years in the past or since has accused me of flirting with anyone or hitting on anyone,” he added.

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“And that’s essential to me and I say this for my spouse Anna, who I’ve been true to and head over heels in love with for the reason that day I met her. I don’t need anyone to misconceive this and make it appear to be I used to be flirting with any individual. No person accused me of that and I by no means have.”

Final yr the presenter was compelled to give up Contained in the Manufacturing facility over “inappropriate” feedback allegedly made to feminine workers.

Wallace give up his position fronting the BBC2 collection in March 2023 after serving as presenter for seven seasons, stating that he needed to spend extra time along with his three-year-old son.

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The Instances, nevertheless, reported that an incident at a Nestlé manufacturing unit in York at the beginning of the yr additionally contributed to his resolution to give up.

Throughout the go to in query, Wallace allegedly made feedback to workers that had been thought-about inappropriate. The publication understands that the remarks had been associated to the load of feminine workers members and weren’t sexual.

In response to the allegations, a consultant for Wallace instructed The Impartial on the time: “We check with you the unique assertion which makes clear his causes for not persevering with filming the collection.”

Christmas-themed films have turn into so ubiquitous it’s onerous to keep away from the sensation that filmmakers have come to think about them as annuities for his or her retirement accounts. So it’s no surprise that the Farrelly brothers have waded into the territory for the primary time, with their new comedy directed by Bobby Farrelly making its debut on Paramount+. And whereas Pricey Santa doesn’t precisely qualify for entry within the filmmakers’ pantheon beside the likes of There’s One thing About Mary and Dumb and Dumber, it ought to fulfill its purpose of being trotted out yearly for vacation consumption alongside the turkey and the eggnog.

Contemplating that the phrases “Santa” and “Devil” include precisely the identical letters, it’s superb that it’s taken this lengthy for somebody to give you the concept for a film about an 11-year-old with dyslexia who writes a letter to Santa, solely to seek out it answered by Devil because of inadvertent letter placement.

Jack Black, in his first collaboration with the Farrellys since 2001’s Shallow Corridor, performs Devil, who exhibits up one evening within the bed room of Liam (Robert Timothy Smith, an actual discover) after the bespectacled tween has written what he thought was a letter to Santa. Devil, sporting horns and a burgundy leather-and-fur outfit and asserting that he’s there “within the naughty flesh,” doesn’t hassle at first to tell Liam of the reality however as a substitute gives him three needs, within the devilish hope of stealing the little boy’s soul.

Liam’s first want is for the romantic attentions of Emma (Kai Cech), his classmate with whom he’s besotted. Devil immediately grants it and it isn’t lengthy earlier than Liam is escorting Emma to a Submit Malone live performance, full with VIP seats and backstage go. This plot aspect gives the chance for an prolonged sequence that includes the celebrity rapper-singer taking part in himself, which ought to assist the movie enchantment to its desired teen demographic.

As with every deal involving Devil, issues shortly develop sophisticated, right here within the type of subplots involving Liam’s pal Gibby (Jaden Carson Baker) having to faux to be a most cancers affected person and Liam’s involved mother and father (Brianne Howey, Hayes MacArthur) having him see a baby psychologist. (The shrink is performed by the all the time humorous however sadly underutilized Keegan-Michael Key.)

It ought to hardly come as a revelation that Black’s hardworking comedic efforts are the movie’s saving grace. Adopting a deep growl that makes him sound like late-period Jack Nicholson, the actor is clearly having a ball along with his colourful position, and the enjoyable proves infectious. He makes the various dangerous jokes bearable and the respectable ones even funnier along with his sometimes manic, completely timed supply.

And to be honest, there are just a few respectable ones within the screenplay co-written by Peter Farrelly and Ricky Blitt (Household Man, Loudermilk), even when it inevitably contains rest room humor within the type of Devil casting a gastrointestinal misery spell on Liam’s obnoxious English instructor (P.J. Byrne). “Each time a grown man sharts himself, a demon earns its horns,” a smug Devil informs Liam. There are a number of humorous popular culture references that ought to please adults whereas befuddling the audience, together with a reference to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Devil asserting that he’s staying on the “Redrum Motor Lodge.”

“You possibly can most likely guess my room quantity,” he provides.

Culminating in a maudlin ending that appears a bit a lot even for a movie of this sort, Pricey Santa is the kind of forgettable vacation fare — very like the present theatrical misfire Purple One — that can most likely nonetheless stay on ceaselessly on streaming providers. And if no much less a determine than Charles Dickens might resort to making a Christmas story for some fast money (look it up), why shouldn’t the film studios?  

We’ve got additionally discovered that Wallace was warned by the BBC after a grievance was raised about him in 2018 in regards to the present Unattainable Celebrities.

A proper HR investigation befell and, within the final result letter, which we’ve got seen, the BBC concluded that “many facets of [Wallace’s] behaviour had been each unacceptable and unprofessional”.

In a subsequent letter, which we’ve got additionally seen, a BBC govt stated she had held a 90-minute assembly with Wallace to clarify “how severely the BBC takes this matter”. She additionally reassured the employees that motion can be taken “to stop an analogous reoccurrence and to safeguard others sooner or later”.

However additional incidents have since emerged.

BBC Information began investigating Wallace in the summertime, after changing into conscious of allegations. The claims we’ve got heard are throughout 5 reveals, from 2005 to 2022.

BBC Information is editorially impartial from the broader organisation.

Asserting its investigation on Thursday, Banijay UK stated in an announcement: “This week the BBC acquired complaints from people in relation to historic allegations of misconduct whereas working with presenter Gregg Wallace on one among our reveals.”

Wallace, 60, is “dedicated to totally co-operating all through the method”, it added.

It is formally Thanksgiving which implies giving thanks, the beginning of the vacation season and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

For those who’re searching for a option to tune into the annual turkey day custom at dwelling, here is the whole lot you have to learn about how and the place to observe the 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to midday in all time zones on Thursday, Nov. 28.

People can watch the 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade telecast on NBC (WAVE 3 in Louisville).

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The 2024 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, which takes place in New York Metropolis, will run for a full 3 ½ hours between 8:30 a.m. to midday.

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New Yorkers can catch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade at Central Park West.

With a scheduled begin of 8:30 a.m. ET, the parade begins at West 77th Road and Central Park West and concludes at Herald Sq..

The next stars are listed to carry out at this 12 months’s Thanksgiving Day Parade:

• Bishop Briggs
• Kylie Cantrall
• Chlöe
• Dan + Shay
• Dasha
• Jimmy Fallon & The Roots
• Coco Jones
• Walker Hayes
• Ariana Madix
• Joey McIntyre
• Idina Menzel
• Natti Natasha
• T-Ache
• Rachel Platten
• Lea Salonga
• The Temptations
• The Warfare and Treaty
• Alex Warren
• Sebastián Yatra
• Charli D’Amelio
• Tiler Peck and Roman Mejia

At the least 17 character balloons will fly on the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, together with Disney’s Minnie Mouse; Extraordinary Noorah, The Elf on the Shelf; DreamWorks’ Gabby; Goku from Dragon Ball Z; Nickelodeon’s Marshall and Spin Grasp and Marvel’s Spider-Man.

A further 15 heritage and novelty balloons may even be featured in the course of the parade together with 22 floats.

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The choose overseeing Donald Trump’s election interference case dismissed the case Monday, after particular counsel Jack Smith requested the choose to toss the case as a result of a long-standing Justice Division coverage that bars the prosecution of a sitting president.

Smith earlier Monday filed a movement to dismiss the case, in addition to the enchantment of Trump’s categorized paperwork case, forward of Trump’s impending inauguration, because of the DOJ’s presidential immunity coverage and never as a result of the fees lacked benefit.

Smith additionally requested the choose in Trump’s categorized paperwork case that his enchantment in opposition to Trump’s two co-defendants in that case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, be allowed to proceed.

U.S. District Courtroom Decide Tanya Chutkan dismissed the election interference costs in opposition to Trump with out prejudice, leaving open the extremely unlikely chance of a future prosecution.

In a two-page opinion, Decide Chutkan wrote that dismissing the case with out prejudice is “acceptable” and wouldn’t hurt the “public curiosity,” agreeing with Smith’s argument that Trump’s immunity wouldn’t cowl him when he leaves workplace.

“Dismissal with out prejudice can be according to the Authorities’s understanding that the immunity afforded to a sitting President is non permanent, expiring once they depart workplace,” Chutkan wrote.

Nevertheless, it is extraordinarily unlikely that any prosecutor would try and carry the identical costs sooner or later, partly as a result of the statute of limitations for the alleged crimes could have expired by the point Trump leaves workplace in 4 years.

Trump’s legal professionals didn’t oppose the federal government’s movement to dismiss the case with out prejudice.

“That prohibition is categorical and doesn’t activate the gravity of the crimes charged, the power of the Authorities’s proof, or the deserves of the prosecution, which the Authorities stands totally behind,” Smith said in his movement to dismiss.

“The nation have by no means confronted the circumstance right here, the place a federal indictment in opposition to a non-public citizen has been returned by a grand jury and a felony prosecution is already underway when the defendant is elected President,” the movement stated. “After cautious consideration, the Division has decided that OLC’s prior opinions in regards to the Structure’s prohibition on federal indictment and prosecution of a sitting President apply to this example and that consequently this prosecution should be dismissed earlier than the defendant is inaugurated.”

Smith moved to dismiss his enchantment of the fees in opposition to Trump in his categorized paperwork case, wherein Trump pleaded not responsible final 12 months to 40 felony counts associated to his dealing with of categorized supplies after leaving the White Home, after U.S. District Decide Aileen Cannon dismissed the case in July over her discovering that Smith was improperly appointed to his position. Smith appealed that ruling to the eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, arguing that authorized precedent and historical past affirm the lawyer common’s means to nominate particular counsels.

Monday’s submitting asks the courtroom to dismiss that enchantment — however it seeks to maintain the enchantment in place for Nauta and De Oliveira, two Trump staff who pleaded not responsible to obstruction costs.

“The enchantment in regards to the different two defendants will proceed as a result of, in contrast to defendant Trump, no precept of non permanent immunity applies to them,” the submitting stated.

In a press release, John Irving, a lawyer for De Oliveira, stated, “The Particular Counsel’s resolution to proceed on this case even after dismissing it in opposition to President Trump is an unsurprising tribute to the poor judgment that led to the indictment in opposition to Mr. De Oliveira within the first place. Simply because you may does not imply you must. If they like a sluggish acquittal, that is fantastic with us.”

Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung, in a press release, known as Smith’s motions to dismiss a “main victory for the rule of legislation” and stated, “The American Folks and President Trump need a direct finish to the political weaponization of our justice system and we stay up for uniting our nation.”

Within the election interference case, Trump final 12 months pleaded not responsible to federal costs of enterprise a “felony scheme” to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election by enlisting a slate of so-called “pretend electors,” utilizing the Justice Division to conduct “sham election crime investigations,” making an attempt to enlist the vice chairman to “alter the election outcomes,” and selling false claims of a stolen election throughout the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, all in an effort to subvert democracy and stay in energy.

Smith subsequently charged Trump in a superseding indictment that was adjusted to respect the Supreme Courtroom’s July ruling that Trump is entitled to immunity from felony prosecution for official acts undertaken as president.

Earlier this month, Decide Chutkan canceled the remaining deadlines within the election interference case after Smith requested time to “assess this unprecedented circumstance and decide the suitable course going ahead according to Division of Justice coverage” following Trump’s election.

Decide Chutkan had been within the means of contemplating how the case ought to proceed in mild of the Supreme Courtroom’s immunity ruling.

Smith had confronted submitting deadlines of Dec. 2 for each the election interference case and the categorized paperwork case, after Smith’s group requested extra time to find out methods to face the unprecedented state of affairs of pending federal instances in opposition to somebody who had simply been elected to the presidency.

Getting Monday’s filings in every week forward of schedule now raises the query of whether or not Smith will be capable to beat the clock to formally shut his workplace down and submit his remaining report back to Lawyer Common Merrick Garland — as is required of him per the DOJ’s particular counsel laws — earlier than Inauguration Day, which is Jan. 20.

The ultimate report should undergo a classification evaluate by the intelligence neighborhood, a course of that may typically take weeks earlier than it’s authorised for any type of public launch.

Garland has made clear in appearances earlier than Congress and in public statements that he’s dedicated to creating public the ultimate stories of all particular counsels throughout his tenure, which so far has included stories by particular counsel Robert Hur following his probe of President Joe Biden’s dealing with of categorized paperwork earlier than assuming the presidency, and by particular counsel John Durham following his probe of the 2016 Russia investigation.

Particular counsel David Weiss continues to be persevering with his investigation of FBI informant Alexander Smirnov, who pleaded not responsible to costs of mendacity about President Biden and his son Hunter Biden, and is ready to take the case to trial in California subsequent week. It is unclear whether or not Weiss will formally shut his investigation down and submit a remaining report previous to Trump taking workplace.

WASHINGTON — Particular counsel Jack Smith on Monday filed motions to drop all federal fees in opposition to President-elect Donald Trump concerning his mishandling of categorized paperwork and his effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election within the lead-up to the lethal Jan. 6 assault on the U.S Capitol.

Hours later, U.S. District Choose Tanya Chutkan granted Smith’s movement to dismiss the Jan. 6-related indictment, formally bringing to an finish the case that alleged Trump unlawfully conspired to overturn his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden.

Trump was first indicted in June 2023 in a federal court docket in Miami on 37 felony counts associated to mishandling categorized paperwork that he took from the White Home to his Florida residence. They included willful retention of nationwide protection data, making false statements, and conspiracy to hinder justice. A Florida decide dismissed the case, however Smith’s workplace had sought an enchantment.

Trump was individually indicted on 4 felonies in August 2023 for his try and reverse the 2020 election outcomes: conspiracy to defraud america, conspiracy to hinder an official continuing, obstruction of and try and hinder an official continuing and conspiracy in opposition to rights.

The case was then placed on maintain for months as Trump’s group argued that the case needs to be thrown out for a number of causes, together with {that a} former president can’t be prosecuted for his actions in workplace.

Trump has claimed that the prosecutions have been politically motivated. He has by no means publicly conceded that his election claims have been, in truth, false, and he pleaded not responsible in each federal instances.

The federal indictments of Trump marked a rare second in American historical past — the first-ever accusation {that a} president sought illegally to cling to energy, mishandled categorized data and tried to hinder a federal investigation.

Their dismissal additionally marks a historic second. Fifty years after lawmakers from each events compelled Richard Nixon to resign the presidency amid allegations of prison conduct in workplace, half of American voters selected to return Trump to the presidency.

Trump’s election victory implies that the Justice Division’s longstanding place {that a} sitting president can’t be charged with against the law will apply to Trump after he takes workplace on Jan. 20.

“That prohibition is categorical and doesn’t activate the gravity of the crimes charged, the energy of the Authorities’s proof, or the deserves of the prosecution, which the Authorities stands absolutely behind,” Smith’s workplace wrote in Monday’s submitting.

“The Authorities’s place on the deserves of the defendant’s prosecution has not modified. However the circumstances have,” the particular counsel added.

The DOJ coverage, which was adopted through the Watergate scandal, notes that Congress has the facility to question a president in the event that they commit crimes. It’s designed to permit sitting presidents to carry out their duties with out being hindered by authorized instances.

That authorized place from DOJ’s Workplace of Authorized Counsel is identical one which helped Trump keep away from being charged in reference to Robert Mueller’s particular counsel probe throughout Trump’s first presidency. Mueller’s group determined that they may not attain a closing conclusion on whether or not they believed Trump dedicated against the law, since they may not cost a sitting president.

Charging Trump was “not an possibility we might take into account,” Mueller defined in 2019. Now the identical OLC opinion is stopping Smith’s case from going ahead.

Following Trump’s re-election, the particular counsel’s workplace was caught between “two basic and compelling nationwide pursuits,” Smith’s group wrote. “On the one hand, the Structure’s requirement that the President should not be unduly encumbered in fulfilling his weighty obligations … and alternatively, the Nation’s dedication to the rule of regulation and the longstanding precept that “[n]o man on this nation is so excessive that he’s above the regulation.”

Smith and his group plan to resign earlier than Trump takes workplace, one supply advised NBC Information earlier this month. Particular counsel rules require Smith to file a report back to the lawyer common explaining his charging selections earlier than he steps down.

Key assist from conservative judges

Conservative judges on the Supreme Court docket handed Trump a sweeping victory within the case with its ruling on presidential immunity. The justices first took months to difficulty a call, making it unimaginable for the federal decide in Washington overseeing the case, Chutkan, to conduct a trial earlier than the election.

In a July ruling, they gave the president sweeping new immunity from prosecution, discovering that every one of a president’s interactions with the lawyer common have been “completely immune” from prosecution. In a dissenting opinion, liberal justices argued that the ruling gave presidents the facility to order federal prison investigations of their rivals with out authorized penalties.

Two weeks later, the Trump-appointed federal decide overseeing the categorized paperwork case, Aileen Cannon, threw out all the fees in opposition to Trump accusing him of mishandling categorized paperwork and making an attempt to hinder the investigation.

In a call that authorized consultants broadly criticized and that Smith vowed to enchantment, Cannon discovered that Smith had not been correctly appointed as a particular counsel. The shock ruling reversed a long time of previous rulings by each liberal and conservative judges.

In August, a brand new federal grand jury indicted Trump on the identical 4 fees within the election case, alleging that Trump’s false claims about mass voter fraud through the 2020 election have been “unsupported, objectively unreasonable, and ever-changing” and that Trump “knew that they have been false.” However Trump’s re-election ended Smith’s potential to maneuver ahead with these fees.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung mentioned in an announcement, “At present’s resolution by the DOJ ends the unconstitutional federal instances in opposition to President Trump, and is a significant victory for the rule of regulation. The American Folks and President Trump need an instantaneous finish to the political weaponization of our justice system and we stay up for uniting our nation.”

Many Jan. 6 defendants have advised judges they lament that they have been “gullible” sufficient to fall for Trump’s falsehoods, which have been echoed by the president-elect’s allies, Republicans in Congress and conservative influencers on social media.

The Justice Division is targeted on arresting the “most egregious” rioters earlier than Trump returns to workplace. The president-elect has mentioned he’ll pardon some undetermined portion of Jan. 6 rioters, whom he’s referred to as “warriors,” “unbelievable patriots,” political prisoners and “hostages.”

He’s anticipated to stroll by means of the decrease west tunnel, the place a few of the worst violence of Jan. 6 passed off, to be sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2025.

Sunderland host fellow promotions contenders West Brom on the Stadium of Gentle in a extremely anticipated Sky Wager Championship fixture on Tuesday evening.

Final trip:

Sunderland misplaced their league leaders standing after a last-minute equaliser by Millwall’s Femi Azeez, final Saturday. The Black Cats took the lead within the opening ten minutes by Aaron Connolly, grabbing his first purpose for the Wearside workforce.  

Millwall’s relentless assault earned the house facet a degree at The Den, that means Sunderland fall to second place after a Leeds United win at Swansea. 

West Brom hope to take care of their eight-game unbeaten run, Carlos Corbean’s facet at the moment sit at sixth within the Championship. 

The Baggies have drawn seven of their final eight, most lately a 2-2 show with Norwich, together with targets from high scorer, Ex Sunderland striker, Josh Maja and Mason Holgate. 

Staff Information:

Jobe Bellingham is anticipated to return to Regis Le Bris’ beginning 11, after going through a suspension for a purple card picked up at Loftus Highway. Patrick Roberts and Trai Hume may even make an look.  

Sunderland are nonetheless with out Alan Browne and Romaine Mundle who battle with long run accidents. Sunderland nonetheless misses Salis Abdul Samed, who’s but to look since signing in the summertime. 

Full-back Denis Cirkin remains to be unsure after struggling a damaged wrist at QPR.  

Head-to-Head:  

The house facet have gained the final three conferences with the Baggies, most notably a 1-0 away win resulting in Sunderland’s play off marketing campaign final season. 

Ones to Watch:

Ex Sunderland striker and West Brom high scorer Josh Maja is anticipated to trigger issues for Le Bris’ line of defense, already bagging ten league targets this season. 

Sunderland’s Wilson Isidor hopes so as to add to his purpose tally of 5, he has scored within the Black Cats final two video games on the Stadium of Gentle.

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A DHL cargo airplane crashed right into a home within the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, killing a crew member and injuring three individuals.

The airplane, which took off from the German metropolis of Leipzig, crashed at about 5.30am native time on Monday right into a home close to Vilnius airport. All 12 inhabitants of the home survived, in keeping with emergency providers.

Police mentioned they had been investigating the crash, with a technical fault or human error because the probably trigger. Arūnas Paulauskas, head of Lithuanian police, mentioned that the preliminary evaluation was that the airplane “didn’t fall, however landed”. He added that there was no proof of exterior harm or something occurring contained in the plane to trigger the crash.

One of many surviving crew members confirmed there was no smoke or fireplace contained in the plane earlier than the crash, Paulauskas added.

DHL, the German parcel group, has been the goal of two parcel fires in latest months involving packages despatched from Lithuania. The incidents have been linked by the nation’s officers to Russian navy intelligence.

Germany mentioned final month that it had narrowly averted a airplane crash when a parcel destined for an plane’s maintain burst into flames earlier than the flight at a DHL logistics centre in Leipzig.

The UK’s counterterrorism police are additionally investigating the origins of one other bundle that caught fireplace at a DHL depot in Birmingham in July.

Kęstutis Budrys, nationwide safety adviser to Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda, mentioned this month that Russian navy intelligence was behind the assaults. Two European safety officers mentioned the incidents had been designed to check whether or not flights certain for the US might be attacked in the identical method.

DHL mentioned the airplane had “made an emergency touchdown” roughly 1km from Vilnius airport however didn’t present extra particulars, including solely that the reason for the accident was unknown and investigations had been underneath means.

Lithuania’s transport competence company and aviation specialists mentioned a recording of the dialog between the airplane and air site visitors management confirmed nothing extraordinary proper up till the crash.

The airplane was operated by the Spanish airline Swiftair for DHL, and the crew member who died was a Spanish nationwide. Lithuania’s nationwide disaster administration centre instructed Reuters it had no information at current to recommend there had been an explosion earlier than the crash.

The plane was destroyed by the crash, with wreckage and cargo strewn over a big space near the airport, in keeping with police.

Darius Jauniškis, head of the State Safety Division, Lithuania’s intelligence company, mentioned no trigger for the crash might but be established but in addition refused to rule out terrorism.

“We see Russia turning into extra aggressive. International companions have talked concerning the risks of sabotage, a sure risk of terrorism,” mentioned Jauniškis, who cautioned it was nonetheless too early to apportion blame for the crash.

A spokesperson for the German inside ministry mentioned: “We will’t confirm the reason for the accident but. The ministry with its legislation enforcement companies help the investigation and . . . are in touch with their Lithuanian companion.”

“Our safety companies warned on the finish of August about incendiary units. Nevertheless, we don’t but see any indications of potential connections with immediately’s air crash.”

Extra reporting by Man Chazan in Berlin

A former Macy’s worker allegedly hid as much as $154 million in supply bills for almost three years, the retailer introduced on Monday.

Macy’s stated that it discovered a difficulty with supply bills in an accrual account and launched an impartial investigation, based on a preliminary report on its third quarter earnings. The worker, who dealt with the corporate’s small bundle supply expense accounting, “deliberately made misguided accounting accrual entries” to cover $132 million to $154 million of cumulative supply bills from the fourth quarter in 2021 by way of the fiscal quarter that ended on Nov. 2, 2024, the corporate stated.

Throughout this time, the retailer stated it acknowledged $4.36 billion of supply bills and added there’s “no indication that the misguided accounting accrual entries” impacted Macy’s money administration or funds to distributors. The worker is now not with Macy’s and the investigation has discovered that no different workers had been concerned, based on the corporate.

Macy’s stated that it found the error earlier this month whereas it was making ready its monetary statements for the third quarter, which ended on Nov. 2. Because of the incident, Macy’s stated it was delaying the discharge of its third quarter earnings “to permit for completion of the impartial investigation.”

A full report on the quarter’s monetary outcomes and outlook for the fourth quarter is predicted by Dec. 11, the corporate stated.

“At Macy’s, Inc., we promote a tradition of moral conduct,” CEO Tony Spring stated in an announcement. “Whereas we work diligently to finish the investigation as quickly as practicable and guarantee this matter is dealt with appropriately, our colleagues throughout the corporate are centered on serving our prospects and executing our technique for a profitable vacation season.”