Senior European conservative lawmakers visited Washington to meet with the Trump administration. As NATO leaders prepare to gather for next week's summit, a group of senior European conservative lawmakers visited Washington with a message they hope will resonate inside the Trump administration: Support for Ukraine and concern over Iran are not mutually exclusive. European Conservatives Bring Unity Message To US: Ukraine Matters.
Two individuals were jailed for the March 2024 stabbing of Iranian journalist Pou Pouria Zeraati, a presenter at London-based Iran International, was stabbed in the leg in March 2024 outside his home in the Wimbledon area of London; Iran's senior diplomat in the U. K. has denied Tehran was behind the attack.
Trump administration officials believed Israel intended to assassinate Iran's top negotiators. Trump administration officials reportedly believed that the Israeli government intended to assassinate Iran’s top negotiators. including the country’s foreign minister. during peace talks with the US in an effort to sabotage diplomatic progress. The New York Times reported Thursday that “American concerns about the targeting of two particular Iranian officials.
Volker Türk, the UN’s human rights chief, reported relentless drone attacks The war in Sudan threatens to spiral further as the strategically-important town of El Obeid continues to face “relentless” drone attacks by advancing paramilitary militias, the UN’s human rights chief, Volker Türk, said on Friday.
Twin earthquakes struck Venezuela's northern coast last week. Thousands of volunteers are joined by overseas teams in the hope of finding more survivors in the rubbleWhen twin earthquakes tore through Venezuela’s northern coast last week, Israel Rivas was at home hundreds of miles away in the industrial city of San Félix. As the scale of the catastrophe became clear, the 24-year-old knew he had to react.
Iran's government is preparing a multiday funeral for late Supreme Leader Ali Kham Iran's government is preparing a multiday funeral ceremony for late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who died in US and Israeli strikes in February. But many Iranians are not mourning his loss, and are instead sharing complex reactions to the death of a man who led an oppressive theocratic regime.
Narendra Modi received the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award in Seychelles. The Indian prime minister accepted the "highest" honor from Seychelles president Patrick Herminie. Modi has a pattern of collecting awards during his overseas travels. Indian prime minister has a habit of collecting awards on his travels, some as their first and only recipientAs Narendra Modi touched down in Seychelles over the weekend, the archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean swiftly bestowed one of its “highest” honours upon the Indian prime minister. Modi beamed as he accepted the Guardian of the Blue Horizon award from Patrick Herminie, the Seychelles presi.
A new UN report by an independent expert found racism significantly impacts access to sport. High From high participation costs and restrictions on Palestinian athletes – to bans on Muslim women wearing hijabs – racism continues to shape who gets to participate in sport, a new UN report published on Thursday has found.
Floods in Côte d’Ivoire killed 59 people since May. Authorities say rainy season getting deadlier, with Ghana reporting 13 dead and floods hitting Benin, Togo and NigeriaFloods in Côte d’Ivoire have killed 59 people since May, the communication minister told a cabinet meeting in Abidjan. There are fears the toll could further rise as rescue teams continue to search for victims during the rainy season, which runs from May until July, the minister, Am.
An Andes virus outbreak infected 13 people and killed three on a cruise ship. If we don’t know the source, not only do humans remain at risk but wildlife can suffer needlessly health departments were palpitating over the news of an Andes virus infectious disease outbreak on a cruise ship (13 cases, three deaths), in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the Bundibugyo virus, the root of the current Ebola outbreak (currently more th.
Diplomacy surrounding Iran has grown complex amid a fragile interim understanding. As Washington and Tehran test the limits of a fragile interim understanding, the diplomacy around Iran has become increasingly complex. To unpack the latest developments, RFE/RL spoke with Marc J. Sievers, a former US diplomat based in Abu Dhabi who has served across the Middle East.
Japanese government long-term bonds reached 2. Japanese government long-term bonds briefly climbed to 2.81% on Thursday, July 3 – their highest level in thirty years – prompting one analyst to refer to it as the “honebuto shock,” a reaction to the prospect of larger deficits stemming from the Takaichi government’s pending Basic Policy on Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform (the honebuto) and the Bank of Japan’s sluggish The post ‘Hon.
India and Japan expressed serious concern over the East and South China Seas. India and Japan also expressed "serious concern" at the situation in the East China Sea and South China Sea, and opposed unilateral actions that endanger freedom of navigation as well as attempts to change the status quo by force. India-Japan ties should not target third party: China.
Peter Thiel accused Pope Leo XIV of serving as a Chinese communist agent. Right-wing tech billionaire Peter Thiel is accusing Pope Leo XIV of doing the work of the Chinese Communist Party with his criticisms of artificial intelligence., Thiel told the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado on Tuesday that the pope was inadvertently serving as a “Chinese communist agent” when he released a 42,000-word encyclical that called The post.
The INDIA bloc submitted a joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India. The episode looks at the INDIA bloc’s joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India; the Allahabad High Court’s stance on the Places of Worship Act; Russia-Ukraine war; former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei state funeral, Uddhav Thackeray’s “Ram Raksha” protest, latest FIFA updates, and more.
Aleksandar Vucic announced his resignation as Serbia's president in the Aleksandar Vucic has announced his resignation in the "coming weeks." Burdened by almost two years of student-led protests, is Serbia's most powerful political figure under too much pressure or is this a calculated political play with another top job in sight.
Russia launched a major drone and missile attack on Kyiv on July 2. Kyiv residents mourned those killed in a Russian overnight attack on July 2 that marked one of the biggest strikes on the Ukrainian capital this year and left at least 30 people dead and nearly 100 more injured.
A Systema investigation found that banana shipments to St. Petersburg sometimes conceal cocaine. Shipments of bananas to St. Petersburg sometimes conceal a contraband cargo: cocaine. A Systema investigation finds that two companies with roles in the delivery and further distribution of the fruit are controlled by Russians with ties to longtime associates of President Vladimir Putin.
Vladimir Putin confirmed on June 28 that Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia's energy Vladimir Putin has finally acknowledged that Ukraine’s relentless drone attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure are having an effect. Speaking to the ruling United Russia party on June 28, the Russian president confirmed that his country is facing “a certain shortage” of fuel and that “strikes on our infrastructure sites are creating problems.” In fact, the post Crimea in emergency as Uk.
Russian recruitment officers seized men off streets in Penza and other regions. In a video captured in the Russian city of Penza, women sob as their loved ones are loaded into a van by recruitment officers, apparently after the men were forced into signing military contracts. Similar reports have emerged from several Russian regions in recent weeks.
Russian missile and drone attacks on Kyiv killed at least 17 people and injured over At least 17 people were killed and more than 80 injured, including children, in overnight Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, on July 2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned that Russia was preparing a massive strike.
The UN World Meteorological Organization reported strengthening El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific. More blistering heatwaves and other weather extremes are becoming increasingly likely across the world now and in coming months, linked to strengthening El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday.
The Supreme Court affirmed birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. This ruling grants automatic US citizenship to anyone born in the country. It includes children of undocumented immigrants and temporary visa holders, a policy the Trump administration had previously challenged. Birthright citizenship is the law of the land. The Supreme Court has once again ruled that the 14th Amendment gives automatic citizenship to anyone born in the US.
Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, was rescued from a collapsed shopping center Security guard Hernán Alberto Gil Flores, 43, initially told rescuers not to tell his wife in case he did not surviveA 43-year-old security guard who survived last week’s devastating earthquakes in Venezuela thanks to a pocket of air in his workstation cabin has been pulled from the collapsed basement of a shopping centre amid huge cheers from international rescue teams. Hernán Alberto Gil Flores h.
An eleven-year-old Canadian boy died of rabies after a bat encounter in an Ontario Eleven-year-old developed symptoms 19 days after encounter in ‘exceedingly rare’ case in Canada Doctors in Canada say a child who awoke to find a bat resting on his nose and mouth while visiting an Ontario cottage later died of rabies, in an “exceedingly rare case” that highlights the need for better public awareness. In a report published this week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, infe.
