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NATO, EU Back More Military Aid for Ukraine

NATO, EU Back More Military Aid for Ukraine

NATO and European Union leaders have reinforced their commitment to providing Ukraine with military support to counter Russia’s nearly year-old...

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to Prison, Lashes

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to Prison, Lashes

Iran has sentenced a Belgian aid worker to a lengthy prison term and 74 lashes after convicting him of espionage...

GM, Ford, Google Partner to Promote ‘Virtual’ Power Plants

GM, Ford, Google Partner to Promote ‘Virtual’ Power Plants

Companies including GM, Ford, Google and solar energy producers said on Tuesday they would work together to establish standards for...

Czechs to Choose President as Rivals Clash Over Support for Ukraine

Czechs to Choose President as Rivals Clash Over Support for Ukraine

Czech voters are preparing to choose a new president — with support for Ukraine and relations with Russia and China...

Virgin Orbit Rocket Carrying Satellites Fails to Reach Orbit

Virgin Orbit Rocket Carrying Satellites Fails to Reach Orbit

A mission to launch the first satellites into orbit from Western Europe suffered an “anomaly” Tuesday, Virgin Orbit said.   The...

Scholz: Berlin Will Not Go It Alone as Pressure Mounts to Supply Kyiv Tanks

Scholz: Berlin Will Not Go It Alone as Pressure Mounts to Supply Kyiv Tanks

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday he remained convinced of the need to coordinate weapons deliveries to Ukraine with allies...

Plane Carrying Rocket Takes Off for First UK Satellite Launch

Plane Carrying Rocket Takes Off for First UK Satellite Launch

A modified jumbo jet carrying a Virgin Orbit rocket took off from southwestern England Monday, marking the first attempt to...

Russia Launches Criminal Probes of Prominent Kremlin Critics

Russia Launches Criminal Probes of Prominent Kremlin Critics

Russian authorities on Monday announced parallel criminal probes against a famous actor critical of the war in Ukraine and a...

UK Summons Top Iranian Diplomat Following Latest Executions

UK Summons Top Iranian Diplomat Following Latest Executions

Britain’s foreign minister James Cleverly summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat on Monday after Iranian authorities executed protestors Mohammad Mahdi Karami...

US Green Beret Veteran Clears Mines in Ukraine

US Green Beret Veteran Clears Mines in Ukraine

Ryan Hendrickson is a retired Green Beret, a special forces unit of the U.S. Army. But today he is in...

Independent News Outlet Staff Go on Trial in Belarus

Independent News Outlet Staff Go on Trial in Belarus

Five employees of what used to be authoritarian Belarus’s largest independent news outlet went on trial Monday in Minsk, facing...

Pope Condemns Iran’s Use of Death Penalty Against Protesters 

Pope Condemns Iran’s Use of Death Penalty Against Protesters 

Pope Francis condemned Iran’s execution of protesters for the first time on Monday in his traditional New Year’s address to...

Ukraine: Russian Missile Hits Market in Kharkiv Region 

Ukraine: Russian Missile Hits Market in Kharkiv Region 

Ukrainian officials said Monday a Russian missile hit a market in the Kharkiv region, killing one person and wounding several...

Czech Ex-Premier Babis Acquitted in EU Funds Fraud Case

Czech Ex-Premier Babis Acquitted in EU Funds Fraud Case

A Prague court on Monday acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2 million case involving...

Sweden Can’t Meet Some of Turkey’s Demands for NATO Bid, PM Says

Sweden Can’t Meet Some of Turkey’s Demands for NATO Bid, PM Says

Turkey, which has for months blocked NATO membership bids by Sweden and Finland, has made some demands that Sweden cannot...

Japan’s Kishida Highlights Security Concerns on Trip to Europe, US

Japan’s Kishida Highlights Security Concerns on Trip to Europe, US

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida begins a weeklong trip Monday to strengthen military ties with Europe and Britain and bring...

Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm

Seattle Schools Sue Tech Giants Over Social Media Harm

The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube...

Ukrainians Honor Dead Fighter at Outdoor Funeral in Capital

Ukrainians Honor Dead Fighter at Outdoor Funeral in Capital

Ukrainian soldiers, family and mourners gathered in frigid weather in Kyiv Sunday to pay tribute to a soldier killed fighting...

Amid Unrest, Iran’s Hardliners Turn Their Anger to France

Amid Unrest, Iran’s Hardliners Turn Their Anger to France

Iranian hardliners Sunday burned French flags outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting cartoons published by the French satirical magazine...

Marches in Europe Support Iran Protests, Assail Government

Marches in Europe Support Iran Protests, Assail Government

Hundreds of people marched Sunday in France to honor an Iranian Kurdish man who took his own life in a...

CES 2023: Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse 

CES 2023: Smelling, Touching Take Center Stage in Metaverse 

Is the metaverse closer than we think? It depends on whom you ask at CES, where companies are showing off...

Climate Activists to Defend Village From Demolition by Coal Mine 

Climate Activists to Defend Village From Demolition by Coal Mine 

Climate activists pledged Sunday to defend a tiny village in western Germany from being bulldozed for the expansion of a...