Retired Major General William Anders, one of the first three people to have traveled to the Moon when he snapped an iconic picture of Earth, has been killed in a small plane crash, his family and officials said Saturday. He was 90 years old.
Voting was underway Saturday in five European Union countries, including Italy, to choose 127 of the 720 seats in the European Parliament during concerns about the EU’s future. Saturday’s vote was day three of four days of European elections, marred by violence, such as an attack against the Danish prime minister. The voting will conclude Sunday when most voters of the 27 member states cast ballots. Observers on Saturday focused especially on Italy and Slovakia, which are still reeling from last month’s assassination attempt on their prime minister.
U.S. President Joe Biden has, for the first time, publicly apologized to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, for the months of delay in American military assistance that Kyiv said cost lives and allowed Russia to make gains on the battlefield.
Israel has condemned a decision by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to add it to a U.N. blacklist of countries and groups that commit grave violations against children.
The European Union’s parliamentary elections, the world’s largest voting exercise after India’s, entered their second day Friday. EU nations Ireland and the Czech Republic cast ballots for 35 seats in the European Parliament. Friday’s voting began in these two nations after the Netherlands kicked off the four-day ballot with an anti-Islam party in a tight race with leftist parties.
World leaders gathered Thursday in Normandy, France, for the 80th anniversary of the bloody D-Day landings that helped to end World War Two, realizing that Europe faces once again death and destruction in Ukraine.
Global initiatives are accelerating to introduce a worldwide digital identification document (ID) that opponents say could eventually force billions to relinquish their privacy.
The Dutch Labor Party/GreenLeft (PvdA/GL) alliance has become the biggest party in the Dutch elections for the European Parliament, winning eight seats, in a setback for right-wing parties, exit polls showed Thursday.
Nearly five million doses of flu vaccine are being prepared for potential use in the United States as the continued spread of H5N1 avian flu among dairy cows has resulted in three cases of bird flu in humans, UPI reports.
Former President Donald Trump said soft sentences for drug dealers have helped fuel fentanyl overdose deaths in the U.S.
After two decades at war with the Taliban, the U.S. government is now sending millions of taxpayer dollars to the terrorist group.
The Israeli military acknowledged that it struck a school in central Gaza early Thursday that reportedly killed dozens of people, but was quick to add that Hamas fighters were operating from within the school.
Despite strong opposition from the progressive wing of the Democratic party, all four leaders of the US Senate and House of Representatives on Friday issued a bipartisan invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress, Reuters reports.
The Netherlands kicked off four days of voted in the European Union when almost 400 million voters can elect 720 members of the European Parliament at a time of turmoil across the continent.
Despite recent diplomatic fissures over Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the United States on Tuesday officially signed off on a $3 billion deal to provide Israel with 25 additional F-35 fighter jets, bringing to 75 the total number of coveted US stealth planes provided to Israel, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Tuesday’s deal ensures Israel’s qualitative military edge in the Middle East, and is funded by US military aid.
Council authorities in India’s Chhattisgarh state have denied basic human necessities to 15 Christian families who refuse to renounce Christ and worship a local Hindu god, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.
The board of the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday passed a resolution censuring Iran for its ongoing refusal to cooperate with the agency’s nuclear watchdog inspectors, the Associated Press reports. The resolution was introduced by France, Germany and Britain.
Amid talks to bring about the release of hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces operating in the Gaza city of Rafah on Wednesday destroyed a major Hamas tunnel and deactivated ready-to-fire rocket launchers that were hidden in a UN post in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, the Jerusalem Post reports.
At least four people, including two Ukrainians, were killed, and some 20 people suffered light injuries when a passenger train collided with a freight train overnight in the Czech Republic, officials said Thursday.
Two major Christian organizations working in jails have agreed to “share the Gospel” of Christ with hundreds of thousands of prisoners and their families.