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WASHINGTON – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address members of the US Congress to inform them about the situation in the country following Russia’s attack. According to a letter to members of the House and Senate from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the virtual address will take pl...
An American journalist was shot dead and another wounded Sunday in Irpin, a frontline suburb of Ukraine’s capital Kyiv. The reporter was identified as 50-year-old video documentary shooter Brent Renaud (BRENT RENO) of New York. TIME magazine released a statement Sunday saying Renaud was in the region working on a TIME Studios project on the [...
A dozen ballistic missiles targeted Iraq’s northern city of Arbil, including the U.S. consulate on Sunday. The attack caused damage but no major casualties, Kurdish security forces said. Kurdish authorities said the missiles came from beyond the eastern border, suggesting the source was Iran. Iran wields considerable political and economic inf...
A Chatham County woman said her son experienced a “slave auction” last week at J.S. Waters school in Goldston, North Carolina. A group of white students at the school reportedly auctioned off Black students for money, with one student playing the role of “slavemaster.” The mother said she had a video of students “harmonizing racial […...
ANKARA (AA) – An American journalist has been killed and another wounded by Russian troops in Irpin city of Ukraine, local media reported on Sunday. Brent Renauld, a 51-year-old video journalist, was shot dead, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted Andriy Nebitov, chief of the police in the Kyiv region, as saying. It was reported in [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that the Iran nuclear deal talks need to be suspended due to “external factors”. “A pause in Vienna talks is needed, due to external factors,” Borrell wrote on Twitter. He, however, said the “final text is essentially ready and on the table.” As […]
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Saudi Arabia said Friday its forces rescued two American women detained in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and took them to Riyadh. In a statement by Saudi Defense Ministry spokesman Turki Al-Maliki said a “special security operation” to rescue the women was successfully conducted at the request of the US. According to [&hel...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing the “information war” in Ukraine, CIA Director Bill Burns said Thursday. Speaking at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Burns warned that Russia could use chemical weapons, saying the allegations raised by Moscow to use as a false flag operation “is somethi...
ANKARA – Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden held a phone conversation discussing Russia’s war on Ukraine. It is important that Turkiye is in a facilitator position in search for a solution, in case the Russia-Ukraine crisis deepens further, Erdogan told Biden. Even organizing a tripartit...
A coalition of more than 200 groups Wednesday called on President Joe Biden to use the Defense Production Act to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. The move would simultaneously combat the climate crisis and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stranglehold on the world’s energy economy. It would also support the transition to a renewable ec...
