Posts by Newsmaker

Fears Over Russian Threat to Norway’s Energy Infrastructure

Fears Over Russian Threat to Norway’s Energy Infrastructure

Norwegian oil and gas workers normally don’t see anything more threatening than North Sea waves crashing against the steel legs...

Military Think Tank: Russia Withdraws Officers From Kherson

Military Think Tank: Russia Withdraws Officers From Kherson

Russia’s military leadership has withdrawn its officers in the Russian-annexed city of Kherson across the Dnieper River in anticipation of...

Alaska Asylum Seekers are Indigenous Siberians From Russia

Alaska Asylum Seekers are Indigenous Siberians From Russia

Two Russian Indigenous Siberians were so scared of having to fight the war in Ukraine, they chanced everything to take...

New Face of Russian War Has Reputation as ‘General Armageddon’

New Face of Russian War Has Reputation as ‘General Armageddon’

The general carrying out President Vladimir Putin’s new military strategy in Ukraine has a reputation for brutality — for bombing...

Russian-Installed Authorities Order Evacuation of Ukraine’s Kherson

Russian-Installed Authorities Order Evacuation of Ukraine’s Kherson

Russian-installed authorities in Ukraine told all residents of the city of Kherson to leave “immediately” Saturday ahead of an expected...

Boris Johnson Returns to Britain in Bid for Rapid Political Comeback

Boris Johnson Returns to Britain in Bid for Rapid Political Comeback

Boris Johnson returned to Britain on Saturday as he considers an audacious attempt to win a second term as prime...

Iran Solidarity Rally in Berlin Draws 80,000

Iran Solidarity Rally in Berlin Draws 80,000

Some 80,000 people joined a Berlin rally Saturday in solidarity with women-led protests in Iran sparked by the death in...

Vatican Confirms Renewal of Contested Accord With China on Bishops’ Appointments

Vatican Confirms Renewal of Contested Accord With China on Bishops’ Appointments

The Vatican said Saturday it and China had renewed a secret and contested agreement on the appointment of Roman Catholic...

Far-Right Leader Giorgia Meloni Sworn In as Italian Premier

Far-Right Leader Giorgia Meloni Sworn In as Italian Premier

Giorgia Meloni, whose political party with neo-fascist roots emerged victorious in recent elections, was sworn in on Saturday as Italy’s...

Germany’s New Program to Take in At-Risk Afghans Challenging

Germany’s New Program to Take in At-Risk Afghans Challenging

Germany’s announcement that it will take in 1,000 at-risk Afghans with their families from Afghanistan will be challenging, an Afghan...

3 European Missions to UN Urge Probe of Drone Use in Ukraine

3 European Missions to UN Urge Probe of Drone Use in Ukraine

France, Germany and Britain called Friday for the United Nations to investigate allegations that Russia is using Iranian drones for...

EU Debates China Policy as German Chancellor Plans Beijing Visit 

EU Debates China Policy as German Chancellor Plans Beijing Visit 

EU leaders at a European Council summit in Brussels this week wrestled with how to respond to the rising economic...

UK Expects Waiver of Chinese Consul’s Diplomatic Immunity in Dragging Incident

UK Expects Waiver of Chinese Consul’s Diplomatic Immunity in Dragging Incident

Britain expects China to waive diplomatic immunity for officials if the U.K. police determine there are grounds to charge them...

For Ukraine’s War Widows, Pain Feeds Strength

For Ukraine’s War Widows, Pain Feeds Strength

The war has changed the lives of millions of Ukrainians, especially women who have lost their loved ones. Karyna Synelnykova...

Russian Court Orders Arrest of Dissident Journalist Ovsyannikova

Russian Court Orders Arrest of Dissident Journalist Ovsyannikova

A Russian court has ordered the arrest of television journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, Interfax news agency said, more than six months...

Britain: Combined Belarus-Russian Troops Unlikely to Happen

Britain: Combined Belarus-Russian Troops Unlikely to Happen

Britain’s Defense Ministry said Friday that Belarussian president Aleksandr Lukashenko’s assertion early this month that thousands of troops from his...

Companies Weigh Fallout From US Ban on Sending Chip Tech to China

Companies Weigh Fallout From US Ban on Sending Chip Tech to China

The Biden administration’s announcement earlier this month that it would ban the transfer of advanced U.S. semiconductor technology to China...

Pentagon: Iranian Military in Ukraine, Helping Russia Launch Drone Attacks

Pentagon: Iranian Military in Ukraine, Helping Russia Launch Drone Attacks

Iranian military personnel are “on the ground” in Ukraine, assisting the Russian military with drone operations that have been terrorizing...

Truss Was a Good Partner, Biden Says on British PM Resignation

Truss Was a Good Partner, Biden Says on British PM Resignation

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called British Prime Minister Liz Truss, who is stepping down from office after just...

Iran Holds Military Exercises on Border Amid Tensions With Azerbaijan 

Iran Holds Military Exercises on Border Amid Tensions With Azerbaijan 

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is conducting military exercises along the country’s border with Azerbaijan amid signs of tensions between...

Retired RAF Pilots Warned About Training Chinese Military Pilots

Retired RAF Pilots Warned About Training Chinese Military Pilots

The British Defense Ministry says it is seeking to ensure retired members of the British Royal Air Force who were...

Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Gets Life Sentence on Appeal

Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Gets Life Sentence on Appeal

A man accused of helping find weapons for the jihadi gunmen who attacked the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish...