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The U.S. and NATO on Sunday criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “dangerous and irresponsible” announcement Saturday that he will transfer tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring ally Belarus, even as they downplayed its risk to the security of Europe.  White House national security spokesman John Kirby told CBS’s Face the Nation that there’s no indication Putin […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, on Sunday, after Gallant called on him to drop a proposed overhaul of the country’s judicial system. Israel’s right-wing government is proposing changing the way the country’s Supreme Court judges are picked, giving appointees and representatives of the government an automatic majority on the […]

Hong Kong saw its first protest in three years on Sunday, as people were allowed to take to the streets for the first time since the lifting of major COVID-19 restrictions and the implementation of anti-protest laws.  However, the protest was strictly watched by law enforcement, and heavily regulated with a number of guidelines. Only […]

El estado de Misisipi, en el sur de Estados Unidos, se prepara este domingo para nuevas tormentas, después de que varios tornados asolaran la región y dejaran al menos 25 muertos. “Es una tragedia”, tuiteó el gobernador Tate Reeves, hablando de los “daños devastadores” causados la noche del viernes por los tornados que azotaron más […]

El director de la policía de Colombia reconoció este sábado que él y otros miembros de la institución han hecho exorcismos y otras prácticas religiosas en su lucha contra el crimen y la persecución de capos como Pablo Escobar y altos mandos guerrilleros. Desde su oficina rodeada de crucifijos, vírgenes y otros símbolos católicos, el […]

The Vatican and Pope Francis unveiled a new slate of legislation on Saturday that updates existing rules within the Catholic Church to penalize coverups of sexual abuse and hold perpetrators responsible.  The new legislation, laid out in a letter by Francis, allows senior clergymen to be held accountable for dismissing any sexual abuse within their […]

EEUU-TORNADOS (AP) Un poderoso tornado arrasó la noche del viernes por una zona rural de Mississippi y Alabama, dejando al menos siete muertes, destruyendo edificios e interrumpiendo el servicio eléctrico luego que un evento de clima extremo que produjo granizo del tamaño de pelotas de golf pasó por varios estados del sur de Estados Unidos […]

Finland, which just cinched the top spot on the World Happiness Report for the sixth year in a row, is now looking to spread that joy to ten people from around the world. The country is hosting a four-day happiness masterclass this summer for free for ten lucky applicants. “Others will be able to study […]

Months of recriminations over Britain’s “partygate” controversy crescendoed this week with a hearing before the House of Commons’ powerful privileges committee in which former Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended his actions during the scandal, one of several that contributed to his exit from the job under pressure last year. Johnson, his political future on the […]

A self-exploding drone of “Iranian origin” struck a U.S. coalition military base in northeast Syria on Thursday, killing a U.S. contractor and wounding another contractor and five U.S. service members, the Pentagon announced late Thursday. President Biden ordered retaliatory airstrikes on facilities in eastern Syria used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps […]

A court in India’s western Gujarat state sentenced opposition leader Rahul Gandhi to two years in prison on Thursday for a comment he made about the surname Modi at a 2019 political rally. Gujarat is the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but the defamation lawsuit was brought by another member of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata […]

Scientists announced Wednesday that they had sequenced the genome of legendary composer Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly two centuries after his death. His DNA was able to provide valuable insights into the composer’s lifelong health problems and ultimate demise.   The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, were made possible after a team of international researchers pulled DNA […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin used Xi’s three-day state visit to Moscow to reaffirm their growing economic and political ties. They also underscored their shared interest in countering the U.S.-led push for a world governed by democratic norms, universal rights and freedoms, and containment of China and Russia.  Xi and Putin […]

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its 2023 climate report detailing what the panel’s chair, Hoesung Lee, called “the urgency of taking more ambitious [climate] action.”  The report found that the world is pushing towards 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming over pre-industrial levels and will likely surpass that temperature in “the first half […]

The median price for U.S. existing homes fell 0.2 percent in February from a year earlier, to $363,000, the National Association of Realtors said Tuesday, marking the first year-over-year decline in home prices since February 2021. February’s prices were down 12.3 percent from a record high in June, but that doesn’t necessarily mean a break […]

El aeropuerto de Alepo, en el norte de Siria, quedó el miércoles fuera de servicio después de un ataque israelí dirigido contra un depósito de armamento cercano perteneciente a grupos proiraníes, indicó una oenegé. El ministerio sirio de Defensa dijo que la acción contra el aeropuerto de la segunda ciudad del país provocó únicamente daños […]

The U.S. military said Tuesday that Ukraine will get promised Patriot missile defense systems within weeks, not months, and Abrams M1 tanks by the fall, not in a year or two. The expedited delivery of the Patriots was attributed to the better-than-expected skill and enthusiasm of the 65 Ukrainian soldiers training to use the complicated […]

Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency said late Monday that a rail shipment of several Russian Kalibr cruise missiles had been destroyed in Dzhankoi, a town in Russian-occupied Crimea. Ukraine did not claim responsibility for the explosion in Dzhankoi — it rarely does for attacks inside Russian zones — but it implied Ukrainian forces were involved, lauding the ongoing […]

The World Happiness Report was released on Monday, ranking the happiest countries in the world based on average life evaluations from 150 nations. The good news is happiness remained “remarkably resilient” over the past three years, with global averages aligning with the three years before the pandemic, CNN reports.  “Even during these difficult years, positive emotions […]

French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announced last week that President Emmanuel Macron’s government would use a constitutional maneuver, Article 49.3, to push through controversial and deeply unpopular changes to France’s retirement system without a full vote in Parliament. Macron’s decision to unilaterally raise the retirement age to 64, from 62, among other changes, has sparked large, sometimes violent protests and […]

U.S. officials are quietly warning Ukraine to conserve its dwindling supplies of artillery shells and other ammunition, air defenses, and experienced soldiers for a major spring counteroffensive to regain territory from Russian invaders, expected to start in May, once Western armor and weapons are in place. Ukraine is especially running through artillery shells and suffering […]

The Swiss government brokered a deal on Sunday for UBS to purchase its longtime rival Credit Suisse for roughly $3.2 billion. The deal aims to stop a banking crisis spurred by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank earlier this month. It took a few days to reach an agreement, which Swiss government leaders and regulators […]

Ukraine and Russia agreed on Saturday to extend a crucial deal allowing Ukrainian grain exports safe passage through the Black Sea, though the terms of the extension were disputed by the two countries.  Known as the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the extension was announced by the United Nations in collaboration with Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]

At least 15 people are dead after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rattled the coast of southern Ecuador on Saturday, causing widespread destruction.  The U.S. Geological Survey reported that the tremor struck around noon local time, with the epicenter occurring in the city of Baláo more than 41 miles under the Earth’s surface. The USGS gave the earthquake […]

North Korean state media claimed Saturday that at least 800,000 people had volunteered to fight in a hypothetical war against the United States.  The country’s official state-run newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, said that the large turnout was “a demonstration of the unshakeable will of the younger generation to mercilessly wipe out the war maniacs making last-ditch efforts to […]