Category: World News
How Ukrainian forces denied Russia victory in Bakhmut by Victory Day
Washington Post A surprise offensive outside the city and dogged resistance in the center kept Putin from being able to trumpet the conquest of Bakhmut on Russia’s May 9 holiday. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/12/bakhmut-ukraine-russia-prigozhin/
Read MoreGerman ‘fireball’ explosion that severely injured several first responders may have been planned
Fox News An explosion at a residential building in Germany that left nine first responders seriously injured appears to have been a planned attack carried out by a man wanted in connection with an unpaid fine, officials said Friday. Police and firefighters had gone to the building in the western town of Ratingen on Thursday…
Read MoreRepresentatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations discuss economic growth at Bangladesh conference
Fox News Representatives from 25 Indian Ocean nations discussed regional economic growth, cooperation and security at the Indian Ocean Conference in Bangladesh on Friday as the Indo-Pacific grows in importance amid changes in the world order. Government officials and experts discussed the Russia-Ukraine war prominently in several sessions, reflecting concerns about how countries in the…
Read More2 French citizens held captive in Iran finally free, heading back to Paris
Fox News A French citizen and another holding dual French-Irish nationality have been freed from an Iranian prison, French authorities said Friday, the culmination of a hard-fought effort to bring them home. Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, who both had been held in a prison in Mashhad, in northeast Iran, were heading to Paris, Foreign…
Read MoreUN human rights report says nearly 500 believed to have died in Mali village massacre last year
Fox News Malian forces backed by foreign military personnel are believed to have killed at least 500 people over several days in a village last year, the U.N. said Friday, significantly raising the death toll from what already has been called the worst single atrocity in Mali’s decade-long fight against extremist groups. The new report…
Read MoreMontenegro court agrees to release Terraform Labs founder on $435k bail
Fox News A court in Montenegro agreed to release Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon from jail Friday along with another South Korean citizen who also is charged with using forged identification documents in the Balkan country. The Basic Court Podgorica accepted $435,000 in bail for each of the two suspects pending the outcome of their…
Read MoreUS Army chief of staff meets with Indonesia’s top defense official to push for stronger security ties
Fox News U.S. Army Chief of Staff James McConville met with Indonesia’s top defense official on Friday to push for stronger security ties amid growing Chinese maritime activity in the Indo-Pacific region. McConville said he and Indonesian Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto discussed ways to deepen cooperation, including enhanced military exercises between the countries. “We have…
Read MoreSpain’s Supreme Court upholds 135-year prison sentence for British teacher, nanny who created child porn
Fox News Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the 135-year prison sentence of a British teacher and nanny who created and distributed pornography of children in his care after changing his name and country following previous convictions. Ben David Rose legally changed his identity after his conviction on child pornography charges in Britain, meaning that…
Read MoreStragglers pack up to evacuate Swiss village under urgent rockslide threat
Fox News Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and a least one pickup truck before a looming deadline on Friday to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland that is facing an urgent rockslide threat. About 2 million cubic meters of rock on an Alpine mountainside overhead could soon come crashing down. As geologists and…
Read MoreThe Biggest Explosion in the Cosmos Just Keeps Going
New York Times For three years, telescopes have monitored “one of the most luminous” events ever: a supermassive black hole consuming a gigantic cloud of interstellar gas. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/12/science/astronomy-black-hole.html
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