Posts by Newsmaker

Tehran: Zelenskyy Using Iran to Gain West’s Support

Tehran: Zelenskyy Using Iran to Gain West’s Support

Iran struck back at Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday, saying his accusation the Islamic republic is arming Russia was...

Waters Rejects Berlin Incitement Accusations over Concert Outfit

Waters Rejects Berlin Incitement Accusations over Concert Outfit

Police in Berlin said Friday that they have opened an investigation of Roger Waters on suspicion of incitement over a...

Ukraine Readies for Counteroffensive, Says Kyiv Official

Ukraine Readies for Counteroffensive, Says Kyiv Official

Drone attacks targeted oil pipeline installations inside Russia Saturday, including a station serving the vast Druzhba oil pipeline that sends...

France Confirms Bird Flu Vaccination After Favorable Tests

France Confirms Bird Flu Vaccination After Favorable Tests

France confirmed its aim to launch a vaccination program against bird flu in the autumn after results from a series...

Police and Serbs Clash in Kosovo

Police and Serbs Clash in Kosovo

Serbian troops near Kosovo’s border were placed on high alert Friday, after clashes between police and Kosovo’s Serbian population injured...

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China, South Korea Agree to Strengthen Talks on Chip Industry

China and South Korea have agreed to strengthen dialog and cooperation on semiconductor industry supply chains, amid broader global concerns...

Turkey’s Presidential Candidates Eye Nationalist Support to Win

Turkey’s Presidential Candidates Eye Nationalist Support to Win

Ahead of Turkey’s presidential runoff election on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main contender Kemal Kilicdaroglu are...

Russia Offers Military Support to Somalia

Russia Offers Military Support to Somalia

Somali diplomats said Friday that Russia had offered to help support Somalia’s armed forces in their battle against the al-Shabab...

Regulators Take Aim at AI to Protect Consumers, Workers

Regulators Take Aim at AI to Protect Consumers, Workers

As concerns grow over increasingly powerful artificial intelligence systems like ChatGPT, the nation’s financial watchdog says it’s working to ensure...

UK Man Gets Life Sentence for Joining IS in Syria 

UK Man Gets Life Sentence for Joining IS in Syria 

A London court jailed a British man for life on Friday for traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State...

Pro-Government Rally Planned in Serbia Amid Growing Discontent After Mass Shootings

Pro-Government Rally Planned in Serbia Amid Growing Discontent After Mass Shootings

Tens of thousands of people converged on the Serbian capital on Friday for a major rally in support of President...

Pope Runs Fever, Skips Meetings, Vatican Says

Pope Runs Fever, Skips Meetings, Vatican Says

Pope Francis skipped meetings Friday because he was running a fever, the Vatican said. There were no details about how...

Belgian Aid Worker, Iranian Diplomat Freed in Prisoner Swap

Belgian Aid Worker, Iranian Diplomat Freed in Prisoner Swap

A Belgian aid worker jailed in Iran and an Iranian diplomat imprisoned in Belgium were freed on Friday in a...

Latest in Ukraine: Missile Strike on Ukraine Clinic Kills 1, Wounds 15

Latest in Ukraine: Missile Strike on Ukraine Clinic Kills 1, Wounds 15

New developments: Russian returns 106 Ukranian prisoners of war Russian town of Graivoron under Ukrainian artillery fire for several hours...

Ukrainian Language More Popular Since War Started

Ukrainian Language More Popular Since War Started

More than 1 million people have started learning Ukrainian since February of last year, according to data from language learning...

Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds

Investment in Solar Will Eclipse Oil in 2023, IEA Finds

Global investment in clean energy production in 2023 will be significantly larger than investment in fossil fuel-based energy generation, and...

Man Drives Into Gates of Downing Street; Police Say Not Terror Related

Man Drives Into Gates of Downing Street; Police Say Not Terror Related

A car crashed Thursday into the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and...

Humanitarian Group Blasts Greece Over Treatment of Asylum-Seekers on Island

Humanitarian Group Blasts Greece Over Treatment of Asylum-Seekers on Island

A prominent humanitarian group on Thursday blasted Greece over its treatment of asylum-seekers on the island of Lesbos, repeating allegations...

Turkey’s Erdogan Faces Unprecedented Presidential Runoff

Turkey’s Erdogan Faces Unprecedented Presidential Runoff

Turkish voters will cast ballots in the country’s presidential runoff election on May 28. Incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is...

Armenian and Azerbaijani Leaders Spar in Front of Putin

Armenian and Azerbaijani Leaders Spar in Front of Putin

The leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia argued openly in front of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday in exchanges that...

Russia to Relocate Some Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Belarus

Russia to Relocate Some Tactical Nuclear Weapons to Belarus

Russia and Belarus signed a pact Thursday allowing Moscow to relocate an undisclosed number of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus...

Greece Probes Video Purportedly Showing Migrants Forcibly Abandoned at Sea

Greece Probes Video Purportedly Showing Migrants Forcibly Abandoned at Sea

Greek authorities have been caught on film apparently forcing asylum seekers into a life raft and abandoning them at sea....