Posts by Newsmaker

Kosovo Reopens Main Border Crossing With Serbia; Roadblocks to Be Dismantled

Kosovo Reopens Main Border Crossing With Serbia; Roadblocks to Be Dismantled

Kosovo has reopened the main border crossing with Serbia, as Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vucic has announced dozens of other roadblocks...

Former US Journalist Joins Ukraine’s Military Medic Unit

Former US Journalist Joins Ukraine’s Military Medic Unit

Sarah Ashton-Cirillo used to be journalist based in Los Angeles. A transgender woman, she is now a military medic in Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Tatiana Vorozhko met with her in Washington in early December, when she...

Namibia Halts Russian Uranium Exploration Over Environmental Concerns

Namibia Halts Russian Uranium Exploration Over Environmental Concerns

Namibia has halted Russia’s state atomic energy agency’s uranium exploration over concerns about potential contamination of underground water. Namibia is...

Vatican: Benedict XVI Lucid, Stable, but Condition ‘Serious’

Vatican: Benedict XVI Lucid, Stable, but Condition ‘Serious’

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is lucid, conscious and stable but his condition remains serious, the Vatican said Thursday, a day...

Bulgaria Summons Russian Envoy Over Warrant for Journalist

Bulgaria Summons Russian Envoy Over Warrant for Journalist

The Bulgarian foreign ministry on Thursday summoned Russia’s ambassador to explain why Moscow has placed a Bulgarian journalist working for...

Kosovo Reopens Serbia Border Crossing, Roadblocks Yet To Go

Kosovo Reopens Serbia Border Crossing, Roadblocks Yet To Go

Kosovo reopened the country’s main border crossing with Serbia on Thursday after a nearby barricade that led to its closure...

Russia Targets Ukraine with Missile Barrage

Russia Targets Ukraine with Missile Barrage

Russia attacked Ukraine with a barrage of missiles Thursday, including ones that targeted the capital, Kyiv, as well as the...

Belarusian Regiment Fights Against Russia in Ukraine

Belarusian Regiment Fights Against Russia in Ukraine

Recent Russian-Belarusian military exercises have raised fears of a second invasion of Ukraine from the north. While Ukrainians see Belarus...

Father of Tourist Detained in Iran: ‘I Am Afraid I Will Never See Him Again’

Father of Tourist Detained in Iran: ‘I Am Afraid I Will Never See Him Again’

Bernard Phelan, a French Irish tour operator who has been detained in Iran for the past three months, was “in...

Turkish Court Upholds Rights Leader’s Life Sentence

Turkish Court Upholds Rights Leader’s Life Sentence

A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose jailing...

US Marks 4 Years Since Paul Whelan’s Detention in Russia

US Marks 4 Years Since Paul Whelan’s Detention in Russia

The Biden administration is marking the four-year anniversary of the detention in Russia of American businessman Paul Whelan, whose continued...

Chechens Travel to Bosnia to Dodge Russian Draft, Set Eyes on EU

Chechens Travel to Bosnia to Dodge Russian Draft, Set Eyes on EU

A group of ethnic Chechens fleeing Russia arrived in Bosnia this week, hoping to use the Balkan country as a...

Italy Urges Iran to Stop Executions, Start Open Dialogue With Protesters

Italy Urges Iran to Stop Executions, Start Open Dialogue With Protesters

Iran must stop executing and persecuting protesters and should open a dialogue with them, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said...

US, EU, NATO Urge Restraint as Serbia-Kosovo Border Crossings Close

US, EU, NATO Urge Restraint as Serbia-Kosovo Border Crossings Close

The United States, NATO and European Union urged maximum restraint in the north of Kosovo, as authorities closed a third...

NASA Mulls SpaceX Backup Plan for Crew of Russia’s Leaky Soyuz Ship

NASA Mulls SpaceX Backup Plan for Crew of Russia’s Leaky Soyuz Ship

NASA is exploring whether SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft can potentially offer an alternative ride home for some crew members of...

Italy to Screen All China Arrivals for COVID

Italy to Screen All China Arrivals for COVID

Italy is making coronavirus tests for visitors from China mandatory following an explosion in cases in China, the health minister...

Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Target Kherson

Ukraine Says Russian Missiles Target Kherson

Ukraine said Russia attacks Wednesday included missiles fired at civilian targets in the southern city of Kherson. The General Staff...

Pope Francis Says Former Pope Benedict ‘Very Sick’

Pope Francis Says Former Pope Benedict ‘Very Sick’

  Pope Francis said Wednesday that former Pope Benedict is “very sick.”   Speaking during his general audience, the pope asked for...

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Americans Weigh Pros and Cons as Musk Alters Twitter

Marie Rodriguez of Bountiful, Utah, began using social media when she enlisted in the U.S. Navy. At first, she saw...

Investigation Opens After Iranian Found Dead in French River

Investigation Opens After Iranian Found Dead in French River

French authorities were Tuesday investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the southeastern city of Lyon; he...

Weather Extremes Becoming ‘New Normal,’ Warns UK’s National Trust

Weather Extremes Becoming ‘New Normal,’ Warns UK’s National Trust

Britain’s National Trust on Wednesday said nature and wildlife at the charity’s sites had been harmed by extreme weather in...

Library Offers Refuge, Recovery in War-scarred Ukraine Town

Library Offers Refuge, Recovery in War-scarred Ukraine Town

Hundreds of laptop-toting professionals and students line up outside the public library in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, desperate to...