Clashes over Bangladesh bloggers At least four people die in Bangladesh as police clash with Islamists protesting against bloggers they accuse of blasphemy. More
Senator vows to delay Obama's nominees over Libya A leading Republican senator is threatening to hold up Senate confirmation of President Obama's nominees to lead the Defense Department and the CIA until the White House provides more answers about the deadly Sept. 11 attack against a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. More
Dutch, Britons, Germans warned to leave Benghazi Britain, Germany and the Netherlands urged their citizens to immediately leave the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday in response to what they called an imminent threat against Westerners.... More
Clinton clashes with senators over Benghazi attack Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday she took responsibility for not adequately protecting U.S. personnel in the Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya that resulted in the killing of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. More
Judge orders University of California workers to end strike protesting response to anti-Israel protests A California judge ordered University of California academic workers to end their strike after they have been walking picket lines at several campuses in protest of the university system's response to ... 06/9/2024 - 9:00 pm | View Link
Explainer: US Campus Protests, Demands and Deals A wave of protests from the East to the West coast, expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people, spread across US university campuses last month. Students have set up tent encampments on ... 06/1/2024 - 9:47 pm | View Link
Myanmar's Tin Oo, pro-democracy general who co-founded Suu Kyi's party, dies at 97 Tin Oo, a towering figure in Myanmar's pro-democracy movement and close ally of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, died on Saturday at age 97, political associates and close friends said. 05/31/2024 - 9:56 pm | View Link
How pro-Palestinian protests led to a massive UC strike, injecting new fuel into antiwar activism The unique demands made by UC academic workers union have labor experts debating over how the widely-watched strike could come to an end and likely set lasting precedents. 05/31/2024 - 1:12 am | View Link
How campus protests flip-flopped America’s free speech debate The battle lines over free speech on college campuses were largely entrenched before pro-Palestinian encampments rapidly spread across the country last month. Professors or speakers who broke with ... 05/24/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
At the end of May, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised British voters by announcing a snap election on July 4, several months earlier than expected. But with most polls predicting an electoral wipeout for the Conservative Party, which is behind the opposition Labour Party by almost 20 points, Sunak has attempted to rescue a faltering campaign by putting forward policies seen more in line with traditional Tory strengths.
CARACAS, Venezuela — A fleet of Russian warships on Wednesday began entering the Caribbean in what some see as a projection of strength as tensions grow over Western support for Ukraine.
The first two ships slowly crossed the mouth of the Havana Bay under a downpour. The ships were accompanied by small boats that guided them through the narrow entrance channel.
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BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired a massive barrage of rockets into northern Israel on Wednesday to avenge the killing of a top commander, further escalating regional tensions as the fate of an internationally-backed plan for a ceasefire in Gaza hung in the balance.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg agreed to guarantee that Hungary won’t have to take part in the military alliance’s deepening support for Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
Hungary, in exchange, won’t block any related NATO decisions, Orban said at a briefing in Budapest on Wednesday. Orban said it was an acknowledgment that most members of the military alliance don’t share his views on how to end Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky suffered a stroke last June and is recovering in a hospital in his wife’s native country of Brazil.
Chomsky’s absence from the public eye over the past year fueled speculation about his health, culminating in an outpouring of tributes over the weekend.
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On Monday, Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo reported that the 95-year-old American public intellectual has not commented on the ongoing war in Gaza, despite requests from his supporters and the press, because he had “a massive stroke” in the U.
Oops. He did it again.
Weeks after apologizing for using an Italian word which roughly translates to “faggotry,” Pope Francis reportedly used the same term again in a closed-door meeting with Roman priests on Tuesday—right in the middle of Pride Month.
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“There is an air of frogaccine in the Vatican,” the head of the Catholic Church said, according to Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA), which cited sources present at the meeting at Salesian Pontifical University in Rome.