Leading left-wing parties across Europe, who face being punished by voters in upcoming European Parliament elections, have ruled out alliances with the far right and pledged to “relentlessly combat hatred, racism, and xenophobia.”
French President Emmanuel Macron rushed to riots-hit New Caledonia, where he pledged Thursday to delay voting reforms that the archipelago’s Indigenous Kanak people fear will diminish their votes and end their struggle for independence from France.
Russia hit Ukraine’s second-largest city with missiles Thursday, killing at least seven people in a printing house and injuring many more, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the West to send more weapons to halt Moscow’s increased attacks.
Two Jordanians trying to get aboard Quantico in Virginia and Chinese nationals attempting to access U.S. military bases and other sensitive sites up to 100 times led a North Carolina senator and 12 colleagues to demand answers from Homeland Security.
While no plan has been advanced for the ‘day after’ Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip ends, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that future Israeli resettlement of Gaza was “never in the cards.”
A major new study shows that while alcohol is still overall more widely used than marijuana in the United States, the intense, near-daily, use of marijuana is now more common than the equivalent high-frequency usage of alcohol, the Associated Press reports. The study found that from 1992 to 2022, daily or near-daily use of marijuana surged 15-fold.
Amid a war against Hamas in Gaza, defending against attacks from the Houthis in the south and Hezbollah in the north, and following the Iranian assault last month, Israel this week inaugurated the reopening of the Aerial Defense Array’s 139th Battalion to operate Iron Dome batteries as part of the Israeli Air Force (IAF).
Israeli President Isaac Herzog confirmed Tuesday that Israel is certainly open to “historic, game changing” normalized relations with its historical enemy, Saudi Arabia, Ynet News reports.
Rescue operations were ongoing Thursday in northern Mexico after a stage collapsed under strong wind at an election rally, killing at least nine people, including a child, and injuring scores of others, officials said.
China said Wednesday it will continue to strengthen its “strategic cooperation” with Iran, despite Western concerns that Tehran seeks the destruction of Israel and backs Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Iran’s supreme leader has presided over a funeral attended by thousands for the country’s late president, foreign minister, and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.
Russia has denied allegations by the United States that it launched a weapon able to attack satellites as concerns mounted about a weapons race in space between the two nuclear powers.
The European Union’s leadership has faced condemnation for providing Iran with satellite technology during the recent search for late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi after his helicopter crashed.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak set July 4 as the date for a national election despite fears that his scandal-plagued Conservative party could lose after 14 years in power.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Wednesday that their forces have made significant progress in their conflict with Hamas. Reports indicate that the IDF has reached the outskirts of a refugee camp in central Rafah but has yet to enter the city center due to ongoing intense fighting. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration continues to criticize Israel’s military operation in Gaza.
The Republican governors of two dozen states, including Georgia and South Carolina, penned a letter to President Joe Biden opposing the World Health Organization’s proposed “Pandemic Agreement,” which they said could “undermine national sovereignty” and states’ rights.
Desperate residents and authorities searched for victims and survivors Wednesday after a deadly tornado devastated the town of Greenfield in the U.S. state of Iowa, killing and injuring numerous people.
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on Monday that conflict, drought, and massive flooding has caused the internal displacement of 140,000 people in Somalia in the last four months, Medicine Reports.
Accusing the West of “provocation,” Russia on Tuesday began training exercises for the “preparation and use” of non-strategic nuclear weapons, the Associated Press reports. The intention to conduct the drills was announced by the Russian Defense Ministry in a statement on May 6.
In a rare victory against Islamic terrorists in northern Nigeria, the country’s military forces on Tuesday were able to rescue 350 hostages taken captive by the Boko Haram jihadist organization over a period of years, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.