Posts by Newsmaker

Macron Cancels Trip Over French Riots as Family Buries Teenager

Macron Cancels Trip Over French Riots as Family Buries Teenager

More than 1,300 people were arrested in France during a fourth night of rioting and President Emmanuel Macron canceled a...

Dutch King Apologizes for Country’s Slavery Role on 150th Anniversary of Abolition

Dutch King Apologizes for Country’s Slavery Role on 150th Anniversary of Abolition

Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologized Saturday for his country’s role in slavery and asked for forgiveness in a historic speech greeted...

Bosnia Envoy Revokes Bosnian Serb Laws Defying the State, Peace Deal

Bosnia Envoy Revokes Bosnian Serb Laws Defying the State, Peace Deal

Bosnia’s international peace overseer, Christian Schmidt, annulled two laws Saturday that the Bosnian Serb parliament had adopted that defy the...

FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors

FBI Turning to Social Media to Track Traitors

If you logged onto social media over the past few months, you may have seen it – a video of...

Latest in Ukraine: CIA Director Held Secret Meetings in Ukraine in June

Latest in Ukraine: CIA Director Held Secret Meetings in Ukraine in June

Latest developments: The United States is confident Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia is making progress despite the lack of any significant...

Quran Burning in Sweden Spurs Second Day of Protests in Iraq

Quran Burning in Sweden Spurs Second Day of Protests in Iraq

BASRA, IRAQ – Thousands of followers of a firebrand Iraqi Shiite cleric rallied in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning...

Youths Clash with French Police and Loot In 4th Night of Riots

Youths Clash with French Police and Loot In 4th Night of Riots

NANTERRE, France — Young rioters clashed with police and looted stores overnight Friday in a fourth night of unrest in...

Chipmaker TSMC Says Supplier Was Targeted in Cyberattack

Chipmaker TSMC Says Supplier Was Targeted in Cyberattack

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Friday that a cybersecurity incident involving one of its IT hardware suppliers has led to...

Most Europeans See Russia as Adversary, Poll Shows

Most Europeans See Russia as Adversary, Poll Shows

LONDON — Most Europeans see Russia as an adversary following its invasion of Ukraine, according to a survey of over...

More Weapons Needed for Successful Counteroffensive, Says Ukrainian General

More Weapons Needed for Successful Counteroffensive, Says Ukrainian General

The U.N. expressed concern Friday that no new ships have been registered since June 26 under a deal allowing the...

Lavrov: Iran To Join Shanghai Alliance With China, Russia Next Week

Lavrov: Iran To Join Shanghai Alliance With China, Russia Next Week

Iran will be formally approved as a member of the regional Shanghai Cooperation Organization with China, Russia and Central Asian...

NATO Struggles to Choose New Leader as Allies Crave Stability Amid Ukraine War

NATO Struggles to Choose New Leader as Allies Crave Stability Amid Ukraine War

NATO is attempting to choose a new leader, as the term of the current secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, is due to...

600 Arrested, 200 Police Officers Hurt in French Protests

600 Arrested, 200 Police Officers Hurt in French Protests

NANTERRE, France — Protesters erected barricades, lit fires and shot fireworks at police who responded with tear gas and water...

EU Leaders Resume Migration Talks

EU Leaders Resume Migration Talks

BRUSSELS — European Union leaders opened a second day of migration talks Friday as Poland and Hungary continued to block...

Austria Seizes Weapons Cache in Raids on Right-Wing Biker Gang

Austria Seizes Weapons Cache in Raids on Right-Wing Biker Gang

VIENNA, AUSTRIA – Austrian authorities said Thursday they had seized hundreds of weapons, ammunition and Nazi memorabilia and arrested six people...

Blinken: Hard Work Still Ahead for Armenia, Azerbaijan Peace Talks

Blinken: Hard Work Still Ahead for Armenia, Azerbaijan Peace Talks

Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan together for several days of peace talks in...

Putin ‘Somewhat Weakened’ by Mutiny, Trump Says

Putin ‘Somewhat Weakened’ by Mutiny, Trump Says

WASHINGTON – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, a longtime admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said Thursday that Putin has...

Moscow Reportedly Detains General Surovikin Over Suspected Link to Wagner Rebellion

Moscow Reportedly Detains General Surovikin Over Suspected Link to Wagner Rebellion

Russian authorities appear to have detained General Sergei Surovikin over his suspected connection to the Wagner Group’s mutiny last week,...

Stockholm Quran Burning Angers Turkey, Hurting Sweden’s NATO Chances

Stockholm Quran Burning Angers Turkey, Hurting Sweden’s NATO Chances

Turkey has condemned Wednesday’s public burning of a Quran in Stockholm and analysts say the incident will likely give Turkish...

Chinese, Russian Firms to Build Lithium Plants in Bolivia

Chinese, Russian Firms to Build Lithium Plants in Bolivia

LA PAZ, BOLIVIA – Chinese and Russian companies will invest more than $1.4 billion in the extraction of lithium in Bolivia,...

Iran Summons Sweden’s Charge D’affaires in Tehran Over Quran Burning

Iran Summons Sweden’s Charge D’affaires in Tehran Over Quran Burning

Iran’s foreign ministry has summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires in Tehran over the burning of a copy of the Quran outside...

Moscow Sentences Critical Publisher to 8 Years in Prison in Absentia over Military Criticism

Moscow Sentences Critical Publisher to 8 Years in Prison in Absentia over Military Criticism

A Moscow court on Thursday sentenced a Russian media publisher to eight years in prison in absentia for criticizing Russia’s...