Posts by Newsmaker

Kyiv Makes Reforms Ahead of EU Membership Talks

Kyiv Makes Reforms Ahead of EU Membership Talks

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday visited Kyiv, where she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The European...

Thousands of Ancient Coins Found Off Sardinia

Thousands of Ancient Coins Found Off Sardinia

A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia’s coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands...

Protesters March in Major Cities to Demand Gaza Cease-Fire

Protesters March in Major Cities to Demand Gaza Cease-Fire

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged protests Saturday in London, Berlin, Paris, Ankara, Istanbul and Washington to call for a cease-fire in Gaza...

More Than 500 Migrants Rescued Off Spain’s Canary Islands

More Than 500 Migrants Rescued Off Spain’s Canary Islands

More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coast guard said Saturday,...

World Bank to Host Climate Loss and Damage Fund, Despite Concerns

World Bank to Host Climate Loss and Damage Fund, Despite Concerns

Countries moved a step closer Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate...

Musk Teases AI Chatbot ‘Grok,’ With Real-time Access To X

Musk Teases AI Chatbot ‘Grok,’ With Real-time Access To X

Elon Musk unveiled details Saturday of his new AI tool called “Grok,” which can access X in real time and...

Ukraine Says Its Forces Hit Shipyard in Russian-Occupied Crimea

Ukraine Says Its Forces Hit Shipyard in Russian-Occupied Crimea

Ukraine said its forces hit a shipyard in the port city of Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday.  “The evening...

Freed Researcher Says Anti-Hijab Protests Changed Iran, Its Prisons

Freed Researcher Says Anti-Hijab Protests Changed Iran, Its Prisons

The protest movement that erupted in Iran last year has transformed the country both outside and inside prison, a French-Iranian...

European Commission President Visits Ukraine

European Commission President Visits Ukraine

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is in Kyiv. Her Saturday visit takes place days before the European Union...

New US WWII Museum Pavilion Addresses Conflict’s World-Shaping Legacy

New US WWII Museum Pavilion Addresses Conflict’s World-Shaping Legacy

A new, permanent addition to the sprawling National WWII Museum in New Orleans is a three-story complex with displays as...

Storm in Western Europe Leaves 14 Dead

Storm in Western Europe Leaves 14 Dead

Officials in Western Europe said Storm Ciaran killed at least 14 people over three days as it swept from the...

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid

NASA Spacecraft Discovers Tiny Moon Around Asteroid

The little asteroid visited by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft this week had a big surprise for scientists. It turns out that...

Russian Money Launderer Sanctioned for Helping Oligarchs

Russian Money Launderer Sanctioned for Helping Oligarchs

The U.S. Department of Treasury on Friday sanctioned Ekaterina Zhdanova, an accused Russian money launderer who allegedly helped her country’s...

Russian Drones Destroy Ukrainian Grain Storage Facilities

Russian Drones Destroy Ukrainian Grain Storage Facilities

Ukrainian farmers say Russian drones have been targeting grain storehouses in central Ukraine in an attempt to harm the country’s...

Belarus Opposition Leader Seeks Alternative Passports for Exiles

Belarus Opposition Leader Seeks Alternative Passports for Exiles

Exiled Belarus opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is seeking support from the European Union and individual European countries for a “New...

 Zelenskyy ‘Grateful’ for US Sanctions on Russian ‘Entities’

 Zelenskyy ‘Grateful’ for US Sanctions on Russian ‘Entities’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his daily address Thursday that he is grateful to the United States for “the...

Storm Ciarán Whips Western Europe, Leaving Millions Without Power

Storm Ciarán Whips Western Europe, Leaving Millions Without Power

Record-breaking winds in France and across much of western Europe left at least seven people dead and injured others as...

FTX Founder Convicted of Defrauding Cryptocurrency Customers

FTX Founder Convicted of Defrauding Cryptocurrency Customers

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s spectacular rise and fall in the cryptocurrency industry — a journey that included his testimony before...

2 More Civilians Killed in Russian Shelling of Kherson    

2 More Civilians Killed in Russian Shelling of Kherson    

Russian shelling on Thursday killed two more civilians — an 81-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man — in southern Ukraine’s...

Former Political Prisoner Faces Deportation to Iran from Turkey

Former Political Prisoner Faces Deportation to Iran from Turkey

A former political prisoner in Iran is facing imminent deportation back to that country after a decade of waiting in...

North Korea Closes 4 Diplomatic Missions, Suggesting Economic Woes

North Korea Closes 4 Diplomatic Missions, Suggesting Economic Woes

North Korea has decided to close diplomatic missions in at least four locations across the globe, a significant diplomatic shift...

North Korea Likely Sent Millions of Shells, Missiles to Russia, Seoul says

North Korea Likely Sent Millions of Shells, Missiles to Russia, Seoul says

North Korea has likely supplied several types of missiles to Russia to support its war in Ukraine, along with its...