Posts by Newsmaker

Biggest Protest in Spain Against Catalan Amnesty Law Draws 170,000

Biggest Protest in Spain Against Catalan Amnesty Law Draws 170,000

About 170,000 people marched through Madrid Saturday in the largest protest yet against an amnesty law that Spain’s Socialists agreed...

Censored Artwork Finds Second Opportunity at New Barcelona Museum

Censored Artwork Finds Second Opportunity at New Barcelona Museum

A drawing of a nude Donald Trump. A punching bag sculpture shaped like a woman’s torso. A display of women’s...

Advertisers Flee Elon Musk’s X Amid Concerns of Antisemitism Backlash

Advertisers Flee Elon Musk’s X Amid Concerns of Antisemitism Backlash

Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate...

Second SpaceX Starship Launch Presumed Failed Minutes After Reaching Space

Second SpaceX Starship Launch Presumed Failed Minutes After Reaching Space

SpaceX’s uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have failed in space...

British Defense Ministry Cites ‘Intense Ground Combat’ in Ukraine

British Defense Ministry Cites ‘Intense Ground Combat’ in Ukraine

The British Defense Ministry said Saturday in its daily intelligence update on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that over the last...

World’s First Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease Approved in Britain

World’s First Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease Approved in Britain

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could...

Orthodox Church Row Threatens US Aid to Ukraine

Orthodox Church Row Threatens US Aid to Ukraine

Pending legislation in Ukraine aimed at preventing the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from becoming a conduit for Russian influence is attracting...

AS Byatt, Who Wrote Bestseller ‘Possession,’ Dies at 87

AS Byatt, Who Wrote Bestseller ‘Possession,’ Dies at 87

British author A.S. Byatt, who wove history, myth and a sharp eye for human foibles into books that included the...

Ukraine Claims Foothold Against Russian Positions on East Bank of Dnipro River

Ukraine Claims Foothold Against Russian Positions on East Bank of Dnipro River

Ukraine’s military said on social media Friday that it had gained “a foothold on several bridgeheads” on the eastern bank...

Years of Uncertainty Ahead for Iceland Volcano Town

Years of Uncertainty Ahead for Iceland Volcano Town

After a barrage of earthquakes that herald an impending volcanic eruption, some evacuated residents of the Icelandic town of Grindavik...

US Seeks to Preempt Russian Influence Operation Targeting Latin America

US Seeks to Preempt Russian Influence Operation Targeting Latin America

The Spanish-language article with a Moscow dateline and a provocative headline first appeared in early August, suggesting a heist of...

NATO Chief to Visit Kosovo, Serbia After Tensions

NATO Chief to Visit Kosovo, Serbia After Tensions

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will visit Kosovo and Serbia next week amid soaring tensions between the Balkan neighbors, the...

South Africa Refers Israel to The Hague Over Gaza ‘War Crimes’

South Africa Refers Israel to The Hague Over Gaza ‘War Crimes’

South Africa has requested that the International Criminal Court in The Hague investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in its war...

Hollywood Actors Offered Protections Against AI in Labor Deal

Hollywood Actors Offered Protections Against AI in Labor Deal

Leaders of the union representing Hollywood actors announced a tentative deal recently with film and television studios to end a...

Thousands of Ukrainian Children Forcibly Taken to Belarus, Yale Research Finds

Thousands of Ukrainian Children Forcibly Taken to Belarus, Yale Research Finds

More than 2,400 Ukrainian children have been taken to Belarus since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to new research...

Rise in Legal Harassment of Media a Focus at Press Freedom Awards

Rise in Legal Harassment of Media a Focus at Press Freedom Awards

Journalists from India, Togo, Georgia and Mexico are honored with International Press Freedom Awards this week. The legal threats and...

How a Spanish Newspaper Tackled the Taboo of Church Abuse

How a Spanish Newspaper Tackled the Taboo of Church Abuse

Five years ago, Soledad Gallego-Diaz challenged Spain’s last great taboo: sexual abuse inside the Roman Catholic Church. The newly appointed...

US Issues Sanctions to Limit Russian Influence in Balkans

US Issues Sanctions to Limit Russian Influence in Balkans

The United States on Thursday targeted 10 individuals in a new round of sanctions aimed at containing Russian influence in...

David Cameron Visits Ukrainian Port City of Odesa

David Cameron Visits Ukrainian Port City of Odesa

The United Kingdom’s top foreign diplomat, David Cameron, traveled to the Port of Odesa Thursday to pledge continued support for...

Russian Dissenter Sentenced to 7 Years for Protest Art

Russian Dissenter Sentenced to 7 Years for Protest Art

A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a protest artist to seven years in prison for switching grocery store price tags...

Ukraine’s Top General Describes How to Gain Advantage on Russia

Ukraine’s Top General Describes How to Gain Advantage on Russia

Ukraine’s top general, Valery Zaluzhny, outlined his views on the ongoing war in Ukraine in a recent interview with The Economist....

Top Court Declares Rwanda Migrant Deal Unlawful

Top Court Declares Rwanda Migrant Deal Unlawful

Britain’s highest court ruled Wednesday that the government’s migrant policy of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing is illegal —...