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Vice President JD Vance and another top official in President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday argued that serving the memory of Charlie Kirk means pursuing left-leaning groups they portray as bent on undermining national unity. Vance, who guest-hosted the slain conservative activist’s livestream show, amplified right-wing calls for
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China’s Coast Guard fired water cannon on Tuesday at Philippine ships near the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, accusing Manila of an “illegal” intrusion and the ramming of one of its vessels. The confrontation comes a week after China approved plans to turn the shoal into
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio headed to Qatar Tuesday to ask it to stay on as mediator in Gaza, hoping to reassure the Gulf partner a week after Israeli airstrikes there against Hamas leaders. Heading to Qatar from Israel, which overnight carried out major new strikes in Gaza, Rubio
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University student Aditya Rawal was outside Nepal’s parliament with hundreds of other anti-corruption protesters when gunfire crackled and 14 people slumped down in front of him. One was his university friend, and as he dashed forward to help — with his hands up — bullets smashed into him too. “I heard
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US President Donald Trump said on Monday he will call a national emergency and federalize Washington, D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser informed the federal government that the Metropolitan Police will not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on information of individuals living in, or entering, the United States illegally.
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The Algerian presidency announced on Sunday the formation of a new government under the leadership of Sifi Ghrieb, who was named prime minister earlier in the day having held the role in an interim capacity. Ghrieb was first appointed interim premier after his predecessor, Nadir Larbaoui, was dismissed on August
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Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met the new head of the US military’s Central Command Admiral Brad Cooper in Damascus on Friday, his office and CENTCOM said. The United States has for years maintained a troop presence at a series of bases in Syria as part of efforts against the
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A motorized boat capsized in northwestern Congo’s Equateur Province, killing at least 86 people, state media reported Friday. The state news agency reported that the accident occurred on Wednesday in Basankusu territory, and that most of the victims were students. It was not immediately clear what caused the accident
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A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake’s epicenter was 111.7 kilometers (69.3 miles) east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and had a depth of 39 kms, according to the USGS. There were
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that enriched nuclear material remained “under the rubble” of facilities damaged during the recent war with Israel. In a televised interview, Araghchi said “all of our material is ... under the rubble of the bombed facilities,” adding that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
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At least 51 people were killed during violent anti-corruption protests in Nepal this week, police said Friday in an updated toll, as the full scale of chaos that toppled the government emerges. Talks continue between the president, protest representatives, key potential figures who may lead an interim administration and the
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US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the alleged incursion of Russian drones into neighboring Poland may have happened by “mistake.” “It could have been a mistake,” Trump told journalists. His remark that seemed to make excuses for Russia followed an ambiguous initial response to the provocative act by Moscow
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The UN’s migration agency is appealing for funds for around 134,000 people who need help in Afghanistan, nearly two weeks after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in the country’s mountainous east. Many of the quake-hit Afghans are homeless, sleeping in the open and desperate
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Syria said Thursday that its forces dismantled a cell affiliated with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, a key ally of ousted president Bashar Assad. “Specialized units in cooperation with the general intelligence service... were able to arrest a terrorist cell belonging to the Hezbollah militia that was active” in the
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Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a rooftop. A person of interest was
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered an ambiguous initial response to Russia’s drone incursion into Poland’s airspace, a provocative act by Moscow that has put the United States’ NATO allies in Europe on edge. “What’s with Russia violating Poland’s airspace with drones? Here we go!” Trump