Category: World News
Vladimir Putin to make first ICC member state visit since arrest warrant issued for alleged child abduction
Fox News The Kremlin has dismissed concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming trip to Mongolia, which will expose him to arrest under a criminal court warrant. “There are no worries, we have a great dialogue with our friends from Mongolia,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday, according to the Moscow Times. He…
Read MoreWHO to deliver 1.3M polio vaccine doses to 640K children in Gaza
Fox News The U.N. health agency and partners are launching a campaign starting Sunday to vaccinate 640,000 Palestinian children in Gaza against polio, an ambitious effort amid a devastating war that has destroyed the territory’s healthcare system. The campaign comes after the first polio case was reported in Gaza in 25 years — a 10-month-old…
Read MoreHoly See urges ‘moratorium’ on development of autonomous killing weapons at United Nations
Fox News A delegation representing the Holy See urged the United Nations this week to put a moratorium on autonomous weapons designed to kill without human decision-making. Archbishop Ettore Balestrero, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the United Nations in Geneva, gave the warning Monday during an expert session on Emerging Technologies in the Area…
Read MoreWATCH: Ukraine fighter ace bombing run destroys river crossing in Kursk
Fox News Stunning footage shows a celebrated Ukrainian fighter pilot making a bombing run in the disputed Kursk region, where Kyiv’s forces have made major gains. “Precision strike, objective control, and thanks from the commander. And this happens every day! Relentlessly and selflessly,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a release alongside the footage, which…
Read MoreMusk and Durov are facing the revenge of the regulators
Washington Post For years, internet moguls like Elon Musk and Pavel Durov have flown above the law as captains of free speech. Now they’re hitting turbulence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/31/musk-durov-social-media-crackdown/
Read MoreFormer Mexican drug cartel leader who generated ‘new era’ of organized crime is released from US prison
Fox News Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, a former drug cartel leader described as having “generated a new era of organized crime” in Mexico, has now been released from U.S. prison and may be heading back over the border, reports say. Cárdenas Guillén, the past leader of the Gulf cartel who created the Zetas — a gang…
Read MoreFriendly relationship with Kim Jong Un is ‘not a bad thing,’ Trump says
Fox News Former President Donald Trump touted his relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un recently, calling friendly relations with the cloistered country a “good thing.” Trump made the comment at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this week, reflecting on what some see as among the greatest accomplishments of his administration. “I got along…
Read MoreThe quiet technocrat who steered Biden’s effort to tighten the border
Washington Post Blas Nuñez-Neto is the architect of a Biden’s immigration strategy – strict at the border, generous lawful pathways – that is working after 3.5 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/08/31/border-policy-biden-blas-nunez-neto/
Read MoreSix people killed in Russian glide bomb attack in Kharkiv
Washington Post Russian forces used aerial guided, Soviet-era bombs weighing more than 1,000 pounds in the bombardment, according to Ukraine’s general prosecutor’s office. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/08/31/ukraine-kharkiv-strike-russia/
Read MoreActivists join US, NYC officials in effort to name street outside North Korea’s UN office after Otto Warmbier
Fox News FIRST ON FOX — Otto Warmbier would have been a 29-year-old New Yorker by now, living in Manhattan and working as a financial analyst, perhaps a resident of the Turtle Bay apartment building where he was last photographed waiting for a friend. But instead, the then University of Virginia college student was arrested…
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