Russia has released an American journalist, Evan Gershkovich, and a former US Marine, Paul Whelan, as part of a prisoner exchange deal involving multiple countries, under which 26 prisoners were freed on Thursday. The prisoner deal, the largest swap in post-Soviet history between Russia and the United States, took place in the Turkish capital Ankara,…
Reuters – Myanmar’s embattled military government extended a state of emergency on Wednesday for another six months, state media said, as the junta struggles to maintain its grip on power with fighting flaring on multiple fronts and the economy in crisis. Army-run Myawaddy media said the military-controlled National Defence and Security Council extended emergency rule…
Singapore: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the United States was “not aware of or involved in” the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran. “I can’t tell you what this means. I can tell you that the imperative of getting a ceasefire, the importance that that has for everyone, remains,”…
Russia said Sunday that it scrambled fighter jets to prevent two US strategic bomber planes from crossing its border over the Barents Sea in the Arctic. The US military routinely carries out flights over international waters, operations that it says are conducted in neutral airspace and in accordance with international law. But Moscow has responded…
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to deliver a landmark speech to the US Congress this week as he fights off intense pressure to cut a Gaza war ceasefire deal with Hamas. Israel’s longest-serving premier will on Wednesday become the first foreign leader to address a joint meeting of the two chambers four times —…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today said that the state would offer shelter to anyone in distress who knocks on their door. Her remarks come amid violent protests in Bangladesh that have already resulted in the death of 151 people. What began as a protest against politicised admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed…
Los Angeles: American actor Shannen Doherty, best known for her role as high school student Brenda Walsh on the hit 1990s television drama “Beverly Hills, 90210,” has died after years of living with cancer, People magazine reported on Sunday. She was 53. “It is with a heavy heart that I confirm the passing of actress Shannen…
BETHEL PARK, Pennsylvania, (Reuters) – The FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania as the suspect in the attempted assassination of former U.S. President Donald Trump at a campaign rally. The suspect was shot and killed by the Secret Service seconds after he allegedly fired shots toward a stage where Trump was…
All federal offices will be closed, including from the legislature to the courthouse. Fourth of July will mark the 278th anniversary of the founding of the United States (US). Since the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, this day has been an important federal holiday in the US….
Key questions include whether Harris would control the massive Biden-Harris campaign fund run by the Biden team if the president were to drop out of the race. Harris has emerged as an early favorite to replace the president at the top of the ticket, but that’s no guarantee that the Democratic National Convention in Chicago…