Posted on:Tuesday, March 5, 2024
he UN’s nuclear watchdog has admitted it no longer knows how much uranium ore concentrate Iran has accumulated or how many centrifuges and other inventory required for multiple nuclear bombs it has now produced, the Jerusalem Post reports.
Posted on:Tuesday, March 5, 2024
The NATO military alliance launched a massive exercise Monday to defend its expanded Nordic territory as concern mounted that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would escalate into a broader world conflict.
Posted on:Monday, March 4, 2024
Suspected Iran-backed Houthis cut four Red Sea underwater cables providing internet and telecommunications worldwide in a further escalation of the crisis in the Middle East sparked by the Israel-Hamas war, officials said Monday.
Posted on:Monday, March 4, 2024
France became the world’s first country to enshrine abortion rights in its constitution on Monday, despite appeals from church leaders to reconsider the move.
Posted on:Monday, March 4, 2024
The government of Haiti on Sunday declared a “renewable” 72-hour state of emergency after armed gangs stormed three police stations and two prisons , freeing 3,700 prisoners and leading to the deaths of 12 people. The government added that the gangs’ acts of “disobedience” were a threat to national security.
Posted on:Sunday, March 3, 2024
Moscow claims that Ukraine launched a massive drone strike on the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula on Sunday, prompting Turkey to call for a ceasefire. Sunday’s strike came as Ukrainian authorities said the bodies of a mother and baby found in the rubble of an apartment block hit by a Russian attack in the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa brought the death toll from a Russian drone attack to 10.
Posted on:Sunday, March 3, 2024
Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged Saturday to investigate a Russian leak of a secret German military meeting where officers discussed giving wartorn Ukraine long-range missiles – and possible targets.
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
Ghana’s legislators were hoping the lights would stay on Friday after the state-run Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) briefly cut power supplies to the parliament over a debt of 23 million Ghanaian cedi ($1.8 million).
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
Canada was mourning Friday after its former prime minister Brian Mulroney, seen as a giant of Canadian politics, died at age 84.
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
Voting was underway Friday in Iran’s first elections since the 2022 anti-government protests threatened its Islamic leadership.
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
Russia’s late opposition leader Alexei Navalny was buried at a cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow following a funeral service in a church and a love-filled message from his widow.
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
Germany has come under British criticism for a “flagrant abuse of intelligence” after revealing that British and French soldiers are in Ukraine to support Ukrainian troops launching long-range Storm Shadow missiles.
Posted on:Friday, March 1, 2024
European discount retailer Pepco Group is trying to calm down families in Hungary seeking cheaper products during inflation, saying it will continue operations after computer hackers stole 15 million euros ($16.3 million).
Posted on:Thursday, February 29, 2024
At least 43 people were killed late Thursday after a fire broke out in a six-story building in Bangladesh, the country’s health minister said about the latest tragedy to hit the troubled South Asian nation.
Posted on:Thursday, February 29, 2024
Viewed by some as responding to the United States’ reversal of a 50-year federal right to abortion, France’s Senate on Wednesday passed a bill enshrining a woman’s right to abortion under the French constitution, the Associated Press reports. The Senate passed the bill 267-50.
Posted on:Thursday, February 29, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to attack Western countries with nuclear weapons if they send troops to fight in Ukraine.
Posted on:Thursday, February 29, 2024
The emotional widow of Russia’s most prominent Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, said Thursday that she fears arrests when her late husband’s human remains will be laid to rest at a funeral on Friday in Moscow, the capital.
Posted on:Wednesday, February 28, 2024
While many people respond well to medication for depression, researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia have published a new report advocating that exercise should be considered a “core” alternative or complementary treatment” for the disorder. The study is titled ‘Effect of Exercise for Depression’ and appears in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).
Posted on:Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Haiti’s Catholic bishops have appealed for an end to escalating violence in their troubled Caribbean nation and urged the prime minister to resign.
Posted on:Wednesday, February 28, 2024
A Dutch court has sentenced the head of a violent Dubai-based “super cartel” that supplied a third of Europe’s cocaine to life imprisonment over several murders and attempted killings.