Posts by Newsmaker

As Regional Tensions Rise, Turkey Keeps Eye on US Race

As Regional Tensions Rise, Turkey Keeps Eye on US Race

The US Presidential elections are getting much attention in Turkey amid increased tensions between the two countries.  As Dorian Jones...

Army of Robots Use Light to Fight Coronavirus at Airports, Offices and Hospitals

Army of Robots Use Light to Fight Coronavirus at Airports, Offices and Hospitals

Disinfecting public spaces is a major undertaking but it is essential for a safe return to normal activity. Now an...

Russia Issues National Mask Mandate After Coronavirus Cases Surge

Russia Issues National Mask Mandate After Coronavirus Cases Surge

Russian authorities issued a national mask requirement Tuesday as the country set a single day record for coronavirus deaths amid...

Italians Protest New COVID Restrictions

Italians Protest New COVID Restrictions

Violent protests erupted in more than 15 cities across Italy after the government announced new measures to rein in a...

British Special Forces Storm Tanker After Reports of Possible Hijacking

British Special Forces Storm Tanker After Reports of Possible Hijacking

British officials say a Liberian-registered oil tanker is docked safely in Southampton and its crew “safe and well” after British...

Erdogan Calls for Boycott of French Goods

Erdogan Calls for Boycott of French Goods

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Turkish citizens to boycott French goods in response to what he says is France’s “anti-Islam”...

From Cold War to Gray War: Internet Conflict Intensifying 

From Cold War to Gray War: Internet Conflict Intensifying 

A former top security adviser to Boris Johnson has revealed that Britain has launched recently a series of covert cyber-based...

Opposition Announces National Strike in Belarus 

Opposition Announces National Strike in Belarus 

Belarus’s opposition called a countrywide general strike on Monday — the latest in a series of efforts to dislodge longtime...

Pakistani PM: French Leader Stoking ‘Islamophobia’

Pakistani PM: French Leader Stoking ‘Islamophobia’

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused French President Emmanuel Macron of “attacking Islam” by defending the publication of “blasphemous”...

Belarus: Police Use Stun Grenades to Disperse Protests

Belarus: Police Use Stun Grenades to Disperse Protests

Police in Belarus used stun grenades Sunday to disperse protesters, who after months of demonstrations, have threatened a national strike...

Italy Further Tightens Closures as Coronavirus Infections Surge 

Italy Further Tightens Closures as Coronavirus Infections Surge 

With the number of daily new infections from the coronavirus now close to 20,000, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Sunday...

Pope Names 13 New Cardinals, Includes WDC Archbishop Gregory 

Pope Names 13 New Cardinals, Includes WDC Archbishop Gregory 

Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black...

Ukrainians Go to the Polls in Historic Local Elections 

Ukrainians Go to the Polls in Historic Local Elections 

Voters across Ukraine are casting ballots in local elections being held under a new Electoral Code that decentralizes power from...

Greece Court Orders Neo-Nazi Leaders to Jail

Greece Court Orders Neo-Nazi Leaders to Jail

The leader and founder of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has turned himself in after a court ordered him and...

Lee Kun-Hee, Force Behind Samsung’s Rise, Dies at 78

Lee Kun-Hee, Force Behind Samsung’s Rise, Dies at 78

Lee Kun-hee, the ailing Samsung Electronics chairman who transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics,...

Agencies: Belarus and Russia Will Respond to External Threats, Lukashenko Tells Pompeo

Agencies: Belarus and Russia Will Respond to External Threats, Lukashenko Tells Pompeo

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a phone call on Saturday that Belarus and...

Europe, US Watch COVID Case Totals Grow, Debate New Restrictions

Europe, US Watch COVID Case Totals Grow, Debate New Restrictions

Confirmed coronavirus infections continued to soar Saturday in many parts of the U.S. and Europe. In some cases, so did...

US Mission in Turkey Warns Americans of Possible Terrorist Attacks

US Mission in Turkey Warns Americans of Possible Terrorist Attacks

U.S. officials in Turkey have warned Americans in the country of possible terror attacks in Istanbul and other areas within...

IOC Chief Bach Says Olympics Cannot Be ‘Marketplace of Demonstrations’

IOC Chief Bach Says Olympics Cannot Be ‘Marketplace of Demonstrations’

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the Olympic Games are not about politics and must guard against becoming...

Heavy Fighting Continues Over Nagorno-Karabakh

Heavy Fighting Continues Over Nagorno-Karabakh

Heavy fighting continues over the Nagorno-Karabakh region as Armenia and Azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling residential areas.Nagorno-Karabakh authorities said...

US Slams Turkey for S-400 Tests, Warns of ‘Serious Consequences’

US Slams Turkey for S-400 Tests, Warns of ‘Serious Consequences’

Tensions between the United States and Turkey appear to be growing, following the latest war of words between the two...

US Judge Denies New Government Bid to Remove China’s WeChat From App Stores

US Judge Denies New Government Bid to Remove China’s WeChat From App Stores

A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Friday rejected a Justice Department request to reverse a decision that allowed Apple...