Biden Signs Funding Bill To Prevent Government Shutdown
Following tense overnight negotiations in Congress, US President Joe Biden signed a funding bill on Saturday, preventing a government shutdown over Christmas. Last-minute legislative wrangling was brought about by incoming president Donald Trump, who, along with influential billionaire Elon Musk, pressured Republicans to abandon an earlier bipartisan funding compromise. Lawmakers then spent several days trying to hammer out another deal, with...
Russia Sentence Ukrainian To 16 Years In Prison For Treason
According to Russia’s FSB security service, a military court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia’s southern city, sentenced an unidentified resident of the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine to 16 years in prison on Friday for “high treason." Moscow regularly imposes heavy sentences on individuals it accuses of spying for Ukraine and has consistently imprisoned Ukrainians both in Russia and in occupied territories. The...
Malaysia Set To Resume Search For Missing Flight MH370 After Over Ten Years
On Friday, Malaysia declared that it had agreed to begin a new search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished ten years ago in one of the most enduring mysteries in aviation. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Despite the largest search in aviation history,...
Indiana Carries Out Its First Execution In 15 Years
Indiana, a US state, executed a mentally ill man on Wednesday for the first time in 15 years after he was found guilty of killing four people in 1997, including his own brother. Joseph Corcoran, 49, was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 12:44 am (0644 GMT) at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, officials said. His last...
Ukraine Eliminates Russia’s Chemical Weapons Leader, Kirillov
According to Ukraine, a senior Russian general named Lt Gen Igor Kirillov was killed in a Moscow explosion. The explosive device was reportedly hidden in an electric scooter and detonated outside an apartment building in the Russian capital. Ukraine has claimed the attack, which marks one of the boldest targeted assassinations of a senior military official since Russia’s full-scale invasion of...
How I Escaped Being Killed Twice In Iraq, Pope Francis Speaks
Pope Francis escaped two attempts on his life during his historic trip to Iraq in March 2021, according to excerpts from his forthcoming autobiography published Tuesday by Italian media. The pontiff’s Vatican security detail received an urgent warning from the British secret services, Francis wrote. “A woman packed with explosives, a young suicide bomber, was heading towards Mosul to blow herself...
15-Year-Old Girl Kills Teenager, Teacher In Latest U.S. School Shooting
Police in the US state of Wisconsin have identified a 15-year-old female student as the attacker who opened fire at a school on Monday, killing a teacher and another student while also locating the suspected shooter. Shon Barnes, police chief in the state capital Madison, told a press briefing that three people had died and seven others were wounded at...
After He Was Toppled, Former Syrian President Says His Country Has Entered ‘The Hands Of Terrorism’
Bashar al-Assad said Monday that Syria is in the hands of terrorism, the former president’s first statement since his ouster. Assad his departure from Syria was not planned and that Moscow requested his evacuation from a military base that was under attack. “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles,” said...
Trump To Open Discussions With Zelenskyy, Putin To End “Carnage”
US President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he will speak with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine in an effort to end the war triggered by Moscow’s invasion. Trump has frequently questioned the billions in aid that President Joe Biden’s administration has provided to Ukraine since the war started in 2022 and has spoken admiringly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who...
Cyclone Claims 14 Lives In France
According to a security source who spoke to AFP on Sunday, Cyclone Chido has killed at least 14 people on the French island nation of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean. The storm, now heading towards the coast of Mozambique, swept through Mayotte’s shantytowns, leaving widespread devastation. French Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has warned that the final death toll could be...
