Posts by Newsmaker

The Sometimes-Boring Life on Ukraine’s Front Lines

The Sometimes-Boring Life on Ukraine’s Front Lines

While the world has seen images of house-to-house combat in Bakhmut, most of the front lines in the Ukrainian war...

In Russia, Censors Take On Truth Online

In Russia, Censors Take On Truth Online

As Russia tries to control the narrative on the war in Ukraine, online news providers and aggregators find themselves in...

UNHCR Urges More Support for Earthquake Survivors in Turkey, Syria

UNHCR Urges More Support for Earthquake Survivors in Turkey, Syria

The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, said more needs to be done to support survivors in Turkey and...

Moldova Fights Russian Propaganda

Moldova Fights Russian Propaganda

Moldova is firing back at what its officials believe are Russian attempts to destabilize the tiny former Soviet republic, which...

Boeing Employee From Burundi Named Leading Black Engineer

Boeing Employee From Burundi Named Leading Black Engineer

Boeing structural analysis engineer George Ndayizeye, who grew up in Burundi, has won a 2023 Black Engineer of the Year...

BBC Backtracks on Lineker Over Tweet Slamming UK Asylum Plan

BBC Backtracks on Lineker Over Tweet Slamming UK Asylum Plan

The BBC called a truce Monday in its showdown with sports commentator Gary Lineker, reversing its suspension of the former...

Bakhmut Sees Fierce Fighting Amid Divided Control     

Bakhmut Sees Fierce Fighting Amid Divided Control     

The battle for eastern Ukraine’s Bakhmut featured fierce fighting Monday, according to both sides, as the months-long struggle for control...

Pope Francis Marks 10th Anniversary with Mass and Podcast

Pope Francis Marks 10th Anniversary with Mass and Podcast

Pope Francis marks 10 years as head of the Roman Catholic Church on Monday celebrating Mass with cardinals in the...

Nicaragua Closes Vatican Embassy in Managua, Suspends Diplomatic Ties

Nicaragua Closes Vatican Embassy in Managua, Suspends Diplomatic Ties

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has ordered the closure of the Vatican Embassy in Managua and that of the Nicaraguan Embassy...

How BBC Host’s Tweet, Suspension Upended UK’s Sports Weekend

How BBC Host’s Tweet, Suspension Upended UK’s Sports Weekend

The BBC’s sports coverage was hit with a second day of severe disruptions Sunday as dozens of staff refused to...

Britain’s Sunak Boosts Defense Spending to Silence Critics

Britain’s Sunak Boosts Defense Spending to Silence Critics

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will spend an extra 5 billion pounds ($6 billion) to replenish ammunition stocks and fund the...

UK’s Sunak to Invite Biden to Northern Ireland Peace Anniversary

UK’s Sunak to Invite Biden to Northern Ireland Peace Anniversary

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will invite U.S. President Joe Biden to Northern Ireland in April to help celebrate the...

30 Migrants Missing, 17 Rescued After Boat Capsizes in Mediterranean

30 Migrants Missing, 17 Rescued After Boat Capsizes in Mediterranean

Thirty people are missing and 17 were rescued Sunday in the central Mediterranean after the boat they were fleeing Libya...

Thousands Rally in New Greece Protest Over Train Crash

Thousands Rally in New Greece Protest Over Train Crash

Thousands of people protested Sunday against safety deficiencies in Greece’s railway network nearly two weeks after dozens were killed in...

Italy Estimates 680K Migrants May Cross Sea From Libya

Italy Estimates 680K Migrants May Cross Sea From Libya

Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a...

 Religious Minorities in Turkey Also Severely Affected by Earthquake

 Religious Minorities in Turkey Also Severely Affected by Earthquake

Among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the early February quake in Turkey are religious minorities that call...

 Zelenskyy: Russia Has Become a Synonym for Terror 

 Zelenskyy: Russia Has Become a Synonym for Terror 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his daily address Saturday that Russia “has become a synonym for terror and will...

Ukraine’s Kuleba Urges Germany to Send More Ammunition and Train Up Pilots

Ukraine’s Kuleba Urges Germany to Send More Ammunition and Train Up Pilots

Ukraine’s foreign minister urged Germany in an interview published on Sunday to speed up supplies of ammunition and to start...

Pope Francis at 10 Years: A Reformer’s Learning Curve, Plans

Pope Francis at 10 Years: A Reformer’s Learning Curve, Plans

Pope Francis celebrates the 10th anniversary of his election Monday, far outpacing the “two or three” years he once envisioned...

Farmers, Environmental Activists Hold Demos in The Hague

Farmers, Environmental Activists Hold Demos in The Hague

Thousands of farmers and anti-establishment demonstrators protested Saturday in a park in The Hague against Dutch government plans to reduce...

Could Myanmar Be Implicated in Russia’s War Against Ukraine?

Could Myanmar Be Implicated in Russia’s War Against Ukraine?

Russia is trying to buy “anything, anywhere”—including from Southeast Asian countries like Myanmar to get weapons for its invasion of...

Iran to Buy Su-35 Fighter Jets From Russia: Iranian Broadcaster

Iran to Buy Su-35 Fighter Jets From Russia: Iranian Broadcaster

Iran has reached a deal to buy advanced Su-35 fighter planes from Russia, Iranian state media said on Saturday, expanding...