As US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says, “the ball is now in Russia’s court.” This is a significant moment. The joint statement from the US and Ukraine, after a long day of talks in Jeddah, contains several key lines,…
A Japanese streamer was stabbed multiple times while IRL streaming to over 6,000 people in Tokyo. On March 11 at 9:50 am JST, Ai Mogami was walking the streets of Shinjuku while livestreaming on the Japanese platform WhoWatch. According to…
Quetta, Pakistan CNN — Separatist militants killed at least 10 people after hijacking a train carrying hundreds of passengers in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Tuesday, according to government and railway officials. Nine of those killed were security personnel,…
Israeli fire has killed eight Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and three more in the occupied West Bank over the past 24 hours, Palestinian officials said Tuesday, even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza has largely held since…
The police in the Philippines arrested Rodrigo Duterte, the country’s former president, on Tuesday on charges of crimes against humanity under a warrant by the International Criminal Court. While in office, Mr. Duterte encouraged the police to hunt down and…
London CNN — A cargo ship that smashed into a US military chartered oil tanker off the northeast coast of England on Monday was carrying sodium cyanide, according to the maritime intelligence company and shipping journal Lloyd’s List. The collision…
CNN — Pope Francis is not considered to be in imminent danger from the infection he arrived to the hospital with, a Vatican source said on Monday. Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital in mid-February and has been battling…
Pope Francis is no longer in immediate danger and is responding well to treatment in hospital, the Vatican has said, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old pontiff continues his recovery from double pneumonia. Francis has been in Rome’s…
At first glance, one sentence in the latest report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) may come as a surprise: global arms exports have more or less stagnated and barely changed compared to the period from 2010-2019. But…
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel cut off the electricity supply to Gaza, officials said Sunday, affecting a desalination plant producing drinking water for part of the arid territory. Hamas called it part of Israel’s “starvation policy.” Israel last week suspended…