Category: World News
Military: Syria rocket attack on US base nets no casualties
Washington Post The U.S. military says a rocket attack has targeted a base in eastern Syria housing American troops causing no injuries or damage https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/us-syria-iran-militias-rocket-conoco/58962686-d7d9-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreBrazil’s Lula struggling to move forward after 100 days
Washington Post Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva finishes the first 100 days of his third term as Brazil’s president on Monday and his return to power has been marked by efforts to reinstate his past social policies and undo his predecessor’s legacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/lula-brazil-politics-100-hundred-days-bolsonaro-government/1c2fc760-d7d9-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MorePolice car firebombed during Northern Ireland protest
Fox News Demonstrators opposing the Good Friday peace agreement that ended three decades of hostilities in Northern Ireland firebombed a police car Monday in Londonderry during a march on the agreement’s 25th anniversary, officials said. NORTHERN IRELAND POLICE DISRUPT ALLEGED NEW IRA BOMB PLOT AHEAD OF BIDEN’S VISIT: REPORT Police called for calm and said…
Read MoreWhat we’ve learned from the leaked Pentagon documents
Washington Post The sensitive subject matter and relative recency are major worries for U.S. officials. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/faq-leaked-pentagon-documents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreAid group says 2 workers killed in Ethiopia
Fox News Two aid workers with Catholic Relief Services were killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the aid group said Monday, amid a wave of civil unrest linked to a government decision to dissolve the security forces of the country’s 11 federal states and fold them into the federal forces. Chuol Tongyik, a security manager, and…
Read MoreIvy league profs turn on each other after Columbia economist claims Ukraine war could be ‘next Afghanistan’
Fox News A group of hundreds of economics professors signed on to an open letter to Columbia University Professor Jeffery Sachs, arguing the Ivy League economist has pushed Russian propaganda in his writings about the war in Ukraine. “Your interventions present a distorted picture of the origins and intentions of the Russian invasion, mix facts…
Read MoreSeparatist Indian movement’s Twitter bots spread violent messages
Washington Post Backers of the Khalistani movement are using multiple networks of linked accounts to blast out videos and calls for action simultaneously, before Twitter’s reduced safety staff can respond. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/10/india-sikhs-punjab-khalistani-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreIsraeli PM retracts firing of defense minister amid tension
Washington Post Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has retracted his decision to fire his defense minister over criticism of the government’s contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/10/israel-netanyahu-judiciary/c373a53a-d7cc-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read More2 dead, 20 missing after migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
Fox News At least two migrants have died and about 20 others are missing after their boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy, German aid group ResQship said on Monday. ResQship said its rescuers reached the area of the wreck on Saturday and found about 25 people in the…
Read MoreAvalanche kills 6, including mountain guides in French Alps
Fox News The death toll from Sunday’s avalanche in the French Alps rose to six, including two mountain guides, local authorities said Monday. The prosecutor’s office in Bonneville, in the Haute-Savoie region, said the body of a sixth person was found after searches resumed on Monday morning. The prefecture of Haute-Savoie said one person was…
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