Inside the White House, a Debate Over Letting Ukraine Shoot U.S. Weapons Into Russia After a sobering trip to Kyiv, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is urging the president to lift restrictions on how Ukraine can use American arms. 05/22/2024 - 12:48 pm | View Link
Russia Is Taking Massive Losses in Ukraine: Still a Military Threat to NATO? Summary: Despite over two years of conflict in Ukraine, Russian forces have struggled to achieve significant success, suffering substantial casualties and equipment losses. -Over 315,000 Russian ... 05/21/2024 - 4:36 am | View Link
Single 'nuclear warning shot' could kill or injure 91 million people in Russia, US and NATO countries A terrifying simulation has shown how a single nuclear exchange between Russia and NATO could result in more than 90 million people being killed or injured in a matter of hours ... 05/19/2024 - 10:38 pm | View Link
As NATO prepares to provide Ukraine capability to strike deep within Russia, SEP presidential candidate denounces plans to deploy troops In response to the Biden administration’s plans to deploy ... deployment by targeting NATO troops and military facilities within Ukraine and abroad,” Kishore wrote, adding, “This would mean full-scale ... 05/17/2024 - 4:41 pm | View Link
Ukraine’s new pressure campaign at a possible turning point Today, the Ukrainian delegation plans to hold 11 meetings on Capitol Hill to pressure the Biden administration. In the past, when the White House “was reluctant to do something, we go to the Senate ... 05/15/2024 - 9:06 am | View Link
A new portrait of Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, was unveiled on Wednesday to a mixed reaction from the public.
The portrait, painted by the British-Zambian artist Hannah Uzor and published on the cover of Tatler magazine’s July issue, depicts the princess wearing a floor-length Jenny Packham white dress with a blue ribbon wrapped around her that she wore to a state banquet in 2022.
(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday set July 4 as the date for a national election that will determine who governs the U. K., choosing a day of good economic news to urge voters to give his governing Conservatives another chance.
“Now is the moment for Britain to choose its future,” Sunak said.
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Sunak’s center-right party has seen its support dwindle steadily after 14 years in power.
Since 1948, Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza have remained effectively stateless, caught in the limbo of a decades-long peace process that has yielded neither peace nor a state to call their own. But on Wednesday, three European countries—Ireland, Norway, and Spain—announced their decision to officially recognize a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
BANGKOK — Aviation investigators arrived in Bangkok Wednesday to learn how and why severe turbulence sent a Singapore Airlines plane into a sudden dive that tossed passengers and crew around the cabin, leaving a British man dead and dozens others injured.
Twenty people remained in intensive care in hospital after Flight SQ321, which was flying from London’s Heathrow airport to Singapore, hit the turbulence Tuesday over the Andaman Sea.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s supreme leader prayed Wednesday over the coffins of the country’s late president, foreign minister and other officials who were killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. Later, hundreds of thousands of people followed a procession honoring the dead down Tehran’s main boulevard.
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Iran’s Shiite theocracy views mass demonstrations as crucial evidence of its legitimacy and the people’s support.
Still, Wednesday’s funeral service for President Ebrahim Raisi and others saw a turnout that onlookers described as noticeably lower than the 2020 procession honoring Revolutionary Guard general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.
HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) collectively cause about 2.5 million deaths and 1.2 million cases of cancer each year, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report, released Tuesday, found that case notifications of STIs are increasing in many regions, and new HIV and viral hepatitis infections are not declining fast enough.