Category: World News
Tom of Finland exhibit celebrates Nordic country’s gay icon
Washington Post A new exhibition showing the works of Touko Laaksonen, better known by his pseudonym Tom of Finland, adds a personal touch to the late Finnish artist whose homoerotic drawings of muscular men gained a following in the gay community from the 1950s https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/27/tom-of-finland-gay-nordic-touko-laaksonen/bc8279b2-e51f-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreCroatia clears beaches of mysterious oil clumps ahead of tourist season
Fox News Teams of workers wearing white overalls and blue gloves are using jet hoses to clear small, mysterious clumps of oil that drifted ashore last year along about six km of Croatia’s northern Adriatic coast, moving fast before the tourists arrive. “A large part has been cleaned up, the tourist season is approaching and…
Read MoreU.S. asks Brazil to extradite alleged Russian spy who posed as student
Washington Post The United States wants to take custody of alleged Russian operative Sergey Cherkasov while Moscow is pursuing its own extradition request accusing him of being a heroin trafficker. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/27/spy-extradition-russia-brazil-illegal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreFed chair Powell duped and fooled by Russian pranksters pretending to be Zelenskyy
Fox News Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is the latest official to be targeted in a Russian pranking scheme that has pestered Western leaders for years, as the pranksters posed as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reports said Thursday. The call was held in January between the chairman and two Russian comedians known as Vladimir Kuznetsov and…
Read MoreIsraeli army kills alleged Palestinian attacker in West Bank
Washington Post Authorities say Israeli security forces have shot and killed a suspected Palestinian assailant in the West Bank https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/27/israel-palestinian-killed-west-bank/e78035a2-e518-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreFormer Wagner Group member sentenced for disorderly conduct, carrying air gun in public in Norway
Fox News A court in Norway sentenced a former contractor of the Wagner Group, a private Russian military company known for brutal tactics, to 14 days in jail for disorderly conduct and for carrying an air gun in a public place. The Oslo court acquitted Andrey Medvedev, who is seeking asylum in Norway, of committing…
Read MoreSpain bans ‘dwarf bullfighting’
Washington Post Spain’s parliament bans “comic” bullfighting events featuring dwarves dressed in costume, in a decision applauded by disability rights groups but condemned by the few surviving performers https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/27/spain-dwarf-bullfighting-ban-disability/63410542-e517-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreGroup: Turkish troops shooting Syrian civilians along border
Washington Post An international human rights group says Turkish border guards have been indiscriminately shooting at Syrian civilians along the border with the war-wrecked country, as well as using excessive force against asylum seekers and migrants trying to cross into Turkey https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/27/turkey-syria-border-shooting-refugees/f333e7d8-e516-11ed-9696-8e874fd710b8_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreUkraine has received over 98% of combat vehicles promised by NATO allies, partner countries
Fox News NATO allies and partner countries have delivered more than 98% of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine during Russia’s invasion and war, the military alliance’s chief said Thursday, giving Kyiv a bigger punch as contemplates launching a counteroffensive. Along with more than 1,550 armored vehicles, 230 tanks and other equipment, Ukraine’s allies have…
Read MoreMexico president blacked out during a meeting due to COVID-19 complications
Fox News Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a video message posted on Wednesday that he briefly blacked out in a meeting in Yucatan state this past Sunday due to complications with a COVID-19 infection and was flown to Mexico City for treatment. He said his heart and brain were not affected, contrary…
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