Category: World News
Turkey closes airspace to Armenian flights over monument
Washington Post Turkey’s foreign minister says his country has closed its airspace to Armenian aircraft, in retaliation for the erection of a monument in the Armenian capital, Yerevan https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/turkey-armenia-monument-airspace-closed/961a7cea-e9af-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreKremlin says Ukraine sent two drones to attack Vladimir Putin
Washington Post Moscow said that two drones attempted to attack the Russian president’s residence at the Kremlin in Moscow but that he was not in the building at the time. The claim could not be verified. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/vladimir-putin-attack-drones-kremlin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIn Photos: The scene after 8 children and 1 guard were killed in a school shooting in Serbia
Washington Post Eight children and a security guard were killed after a seventh grade student opened fire at a school in the Serbian capital of Belgrade on Wednesday morning, authorities said. https://www.washingtonpost.com/photography/interactive/2023/photos-serbia-shooting-school-belgrade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreRussian Targets Are Struck in and Near Crimea
New York Times As attacks in Russian-occupied areas intensify ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive, a Ukrainian official said: ‘The enemy must be cut off from Crimea.’ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/03/world/russia-ukraine-news
Read MoreIran seizes second oil tanker in a week, US Navy says
Fox News Iranian forces captured a foreign vessel on Wednesday, the second ship to be harassed and seized by the Middle Eastern country in a week, the U.S. Navy said. The Niovi, a commercial oil tanker flying the Panama flag, was passing through the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of…
Read MoreUN denounces Taliban intimidation, attacks on Afghan media
Washington Post The United Nations says the Taliban’s intimidation, threats and attacks on Afghan journalists are unacceptable https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/afghanistan-taliban-press-freedom/88588390-e9a0-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreAutopsies find some victims of Kenya starvation cult were suffocated
Washington Post At least 110 bodies have been exhumed so far, as authorities investigate what appears to be a religious cult that preached starvation to its members. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/kenya-starvation-cult-preacher-smothering/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreGermany: School evacuated over suspected gas exposure
Washington Post Exposure to a suspected irritant gas has affected at least 70 people at a school in southwestern Germany, according to a media report https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/germany-school-gas-exposure-evacuated/d60d2b96-e99f-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreThe Debt Ceiling and False Equivalence
New York Times The outcome of the debt ceiling conflict is genuinely uncertain. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/03/briefing/debt-ceiling.html
Read MoreTurkish singer sentenced over joke on religious schools
Washington Post A Turkish court has given pop singer Gulsen a 10-month suspended sentence after convicting her of “inciting hatred and enmity” over a joke about Turkey’s religious schools https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/05/03/turkish-singer-sentenced-joke-religious-schools/e1625d9a-e99a-11ed-869e-986dd5713bc8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
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