Posts by Newsmaker

Let’s Waltz! Vienna Ball Season Back in Full Swing

Let’s Waltz! Vienna Ball Season Back in Full Swing

After COVID-19 restrictions had wiped out Vienna’s glamorous winter ball season for two years in a row, 50-year-old Wahyuni couldn’t...

Israel’s Cognyte Won Tender to Sell Spyware to Myanmar Before Coup, Documents Show

Israel’s Cognyte Won Tender to Sell Spyware to Myanmar Before Coup, Documents Show

Israel’s Cognyte Software Ltd won a tender to sell intercept spyware to a Myanmar state-backed telecommunications firm a month before...

Retired General Wins First Round of Czech Presidential Vote

Retired General Wins First Round of Czech Presidential Vote

With nearly all the votes counted in the first round of the Czech Republic’s presidential election, retired army General Petr...

Britain to Send 14 Tanks, Artillery to Ukraine, PM Says

Britain to Send 14 Tanks, Artillery to Ukraine, PM Says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s call for heavy weapons, primarily tanks, was officially answered late Saturday by British Prime Minister Rishi...

‘We Can Handle Everything:’ Ukrainian Medics Stoic Near Front Line

‘We Can Handle Everything:’ Ukrainian Medics Stoic Near Front Line

Bloodied helmets and body armor cut from dead soldiers are discarded on a roadside leading to Soledar, but the Ukrainian...

Zelenskyy Hopes to Visit UN Next Month

Zelenskyy Hopes to Visit UN Next Month

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to visit the United Nations to address a high-level meeting of the 193-member General Assembly...

New Russian Contingency Plan for Crew of Damaged Space Capsule

New Russian Contingency Plan for Crew of Damaged Space Capsule

Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced new contingency plans Saturday for the three-member crew of a damaged capsule docked to the...

Russia’s Prigozhin Talks Up Wagner Role Amid Rivalry With Defense Ministry

Russia’s Prigozhin Talks Up Wagner Role Amid Rivalry With Defense Ministry

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, boasted of his forces’ prowess on Saturday amid a simmering rivalry with...

Violence Soars in Mali in The Year After Russians Arrive

Violence Soars in Mali in The Year After Russians Arrive

Alou Diallo says he was drinking tea with his family one morning last month when groups of “white soldiers” invaded...

Retired General, Former Premier to Square Off in Czech Presidential Runoff

Retired General, Former Premier to Square Off in Czech Presidential Runoff

Retired general Petr Pavel scored a narrow win over billionaire former premier Andrej Babis in the first round of the...

North of Soledar, Ukrainians Yearn for Peace

North of Soledar, Ukrainians Yearn for Peace

In Siversk, a town north of Soledar that could be next in line for the Russian advance, Oleksandr Kuzenko and...

Polish Scientist Released From Prison in Iran, Foreign Ministry Says

Polish Scientist Released From Prison in Iran, Foreign Ministry Says

Polish scientist Maciej Walczak has been released from prison in Iran and has returned to Poland, the Polish foreign ministry...

Ukraine Capital Hit with Explosions, Infrastructure Damaged, Officials Say

Ukraine Capital Hit with Explosions, Infrastructure Damaged, Officials Say

Ukraine’s capital was hit with a series of explosions Saturday. Officials said critical infrastructure was hit in Kyiv but did...

Fight Over Big Tech Looms in US Supreme Court

Fight Over Big Tech Looms in US Supreme Court

An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that asks whether tech firms can be held liable for damages related to algorithmically...

Swiss Firm Says It Permanently Removed CO2 from Air for Clients

Swiss Firm Says It Permanently Removed CO2 from Air for Clients

A Swiss company says it has certifiably extracted CO2 from the air and permanently stored it in the ground —...

Czechs Go to Polls in First Round of Presidential Vote

Czechs Go to Polls in First Round of Presidential Vote

Czech voters went to the polls Friday in the first round of voting to elect a new president, with billionaire...

Fight for Soledar Rages as Russia, Ukraine Dispute Its Control

Fight for Soledar Rages as Russia, Ukraine Dispute Its Control

The fate of Soledar in Ukraine’s Donbas region was hanging in the balance Friday, with Russia claiming that its forces...

German, French Ministers Call for African Permanent Seats on UNSC

German, French Ministers Call for African Permanent Seats on UNSC

The foreign ministers of France and Germany have voiced support for Africa to receive two permanent seats on the powerful...

Budapest Police Officer Killed, Two Others Injured in Knife Attack

Budapest Police Officer Killed, Two Others Injured in Knife Attack

Police in Hungary said Friday one police officer was killed and two others injured when they were stabbed while responding...

American Released From Russian Custody

American Released From Russian Custody

An American citizen who had been detained in Russia for nearly a year was released Thursday.     Taylor Dudley,...

Report:  Iran May Be Using Facial Recognition Technology to Police Hijab Law

Report: Iran May Be Using Facial Recognition Technology to Police Hijab Law

A recently published report in a U.S.-based magazine says Iran is likely using facial recognition technology to monitor women’s compliance...

3 Frontrunners as Czechs Vote for New President

3 Frontrunners as Czechs Vote for New President

The Czech presidential election is to kick off Friday with a billionaire, a general and an academic leading a likely...