NAIROBI, June 25 (Reuters) – Police opened fire on demonstrators trying to storm Kenya’s legislature on Tuesday, with at least five protesters killed, dozens wounded and sections of the parliament building set ablaze as lawmakers inside passed legislation to raise … Read More
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange shelled out half a million dollars to fly to a remote island to avoid returning to the American mainland after accepting a plea deal with the US government and being freed from prison. Assange, 52, was freed Monday … Read More
A Chinese probe has returned to Earth carrying the first samples ever taken from the far side of the moon. Chinese state television broadcast images Tuesday of the capsule holding the samples, as it floated down under parachute onto the … Read More
June 25 (UPI) — Israel’s Supreme Court ordered a full draft of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the country’s military Tuesday and an immediate freeze on government funding of religious educational institutions, or yeshivas, that do not comply. The unanimous decision … Read More
Attacks on police posts, churches and a synagogue in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan have left 20 people dead, most of them police officers. Five gunmen were also killed. At least 46 people were taken to hospital with injuries … Read More
June 24 (UPI) — At least 22 workers, mostly Chinese nationals, were killed in a lithium battery plant fire in Hwaseong, south of Seoul, Monday, firefighters said, in what could be the worst accident to occur at a chemical factory … Read More
MOSCOW, June 24 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Monday squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned the U.S. ambassador that … Read More
For the first time in 30 years, Argentina experienced a zero-percent increase in the inflation rates of food and drinks during the third week of June, President Javier Milei confirmed on Monday morning. A study published on Sunday by Econométrica, … Read More
Greetings from Tyler, He did it again! Wouldn’t you have loved to be a fly on the wall when the pope said the unthinkable? There must have been pointy hats going in all directions. Why are they so outraged? You … Read More
BEIJING, June 21 (Reuters) – Beijing warned on Friday that escalating frictions with the European Union over electric vehicle imports could trigger a trade war, as Germany’s economy minister arrived in the Chinese capital with the proposed tariffs high on … Read More