Category: World News
Miami zoo apologizes after treatment of kiwi bird ‘offended a nation’
Washington Post A petition to “help save” Paora garnered more than 10,000 signatures after a video showed visitors petting the flightless, nocturnal bird. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/24/miami-zoo-kiwi-encounter-paora/
Read MoreUkraine live briefing: U.S. distances itself from Belgorod incident after Humvees seen on Russian side
Washington Post Damaged U.S.-made Humvees were seen in a video on the Russian side of the border near Belgorod, which Russia says was attacked by pro-Ukrainian fighters. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/russia-ukraine-war-news-belgorod/
Read MoreGuam issues flash flooding warning as Typhoon Mawar approaches
Washington Post Intense rainfall is expected through Thursday as the U.S. Pacific territory readies for one of the worst storms it has faced in decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/05/24/typhoon-mawar-guam-updates/
Read MoreTeachers take AI concerns into their own hands amid warning tech poses ‘greatest threat’ to schools
Fox News Educational leaders at top U.K. schools are taking concerns over artificial intelligence into their own hands, forming an advisory board on the technology and warning AI’s risks pose the “greatest threat” to schools. The United Kingdom is predicting AI could make a “transformative change” to its education system, according to Education Secretary Gillian…
Read MoreDespite war, Ukraine allows Russian oil and gas to cross its territory
Washington Post Even after a brutal invasion and tens of thousands of war dead, Ukraine insists it must maintain some commercial ties with Russia because European neighbors need the energy supplies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/ukraine-gas-russia-pipeline-oil/
Read MoreThe unique absurdity of the U.S.’s looming debt default
Washington Post Denmark is the only industrialized democracy other than the United States to have a debt limit set at a nominal value, but Danish debt is never the subject of complicated political wrangling. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/24/debt-ceiling-denmark-united-states-default/
Read MoreBlinken warns rival Sudanese generals to respect cease-fire or face possible sanctions
Fox News U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday warned Sudan’s rival generals to abide by the latest cease-fire or face possible sanctions, as residents reported sporadic fighting between the sides in the capital of Khartoum and a northern city. Sudan descended into chaos after fighting erupted in mid-April between the country’s military, led…
Read MoreRussia controls Bakhmut, for now, but holding it will be difficult
Washington Post Russia’s victory celebration may be brief, analysts said, with Bakhmut potentially following Kherson and other cities occupied by Russia only to be retaken by Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/23/ukraine-russia-war-bakhmut-wagner/
Read MoreMore than 30 women in Cameroon abducted by separatist fighters
Fox News More than 30 women were abducted by separatist rebels in Cameroon, for protesting illegal taxes imposed on them by the fighters, said the government on Tuesday. The women were taken from Babanki, a farming village in the Northwest region along the border with Nigeria, said Simon Emil Mooh, the top official in the…
Read MoreQuebec police identify killer in 1975 cold case murder of teen
Fox News Canadian police said Tuesday they have solved one of the highest-profile cold cases in Quebec history. Police in Longueuil, Quebec, said that DNA evidence allows them to be 100% certain that Franklin Maywood Romine murdered 16-year-old Sharron Prior in 1975. The body of Romine, who died in 1982 at the age of 36,…
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