Category: World News
Trudeau provides more Ukraine aid, dismisses site being down
Washington Post Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have announced more military aid to support Ukraine in its war with Russia while hosting Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Toronto https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/11/canada-ukraine-aid-trudeau/908fb01e-d894-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreWhite House Suggests Colorado River Cuts Be Spread Evenly Among States
New York Times As the river shrinks, the Biden administration is getting ready to impose, for the first time, reductions in water supplies to states. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/11/climate/colorado-river-water-cuts-drought.html
Read MoreUS and China unite in effort to rehabilitate Ya Ya the panda bear
Fox News The United States and People’s Republic of China are cooperating on the return and rehabilitation of a giant panda that has lived in Tennessee for decades. U.S. officials are working to return Ya Ya, a panda from the Memphis Zoo, to Chinese custody amid concerns for her health. “The Chinese side has made…
Read MoreUkraine wants India to play a larger role in helping to end the war with Russia
Fox News Ukraine wants India to play a bigger role in helping end Russia’s war, its deputy foreign minister said Tuesday during the first visit by a senior Ukrainian official to India since the war began last year. India “can play a bigger and greater role” and Ukraine would “welcome any effort that is directed…
Read MoreSupporters defend Dalai Lama’s odd interaction with young boy, point to Tibet’s history of ‘tongue greetings’
Fox News Supporters of the Dalai Lama defended him online this week after the religious leader asked a young boy to “suck my tongue” on Monday, outraging many observers. The Dalai Lama’s defenders argued criticism was coming from Westerners who misunderstand Tibetan culture. Sticking out one’s tongue at another person is considered a sign of…
Read MoreFrench building collapse death toll rises to 6; 2 missing
Fox News French investigators are treating the deaths of at least six people who were killed when a building collapsed in the city of Marseille as a possible “involuntary homicide” case, a prosecutor said Tuesday. Prosecutor Dominique Laurens said an investigation was opened on that basis after the first body was found in the building,…
Read MoreUK has named first woman to lead communications intelligence agency GCHQ
Fox News Anne Keast-Butler, who has spent 30 years working in national security for Britain, was named Tuesday as the first woman to head the U.K.’s communications intelligence agency. Keast-Butler, currently deputy director general at MI5, the domestic intelligence agency, will head the Government Communications Headquarters — better known as GCHQ. Her appointment comes as…
Read MoreFrench pension reform protestors interrupt President Emmanuel Macrons speech in the Netherlands
Fox News Protesters opposing France’s unpopular pension reforms on Tuesday briefly interrupted a speech in the Netherlands by French President Emmanuel Macron as he was about to outline his vision for the future of Europe during a two-day state visit. Some members of the audience at a theater in The Hague shouted at Macron as…
Read More14 dead in 3 days of tribal violence in Sudan’s West Darfur
Washington Post Activists say bloodshed in Sudan’s long-troubled Darfur region has left at least 14 people dead over the last three days https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/11/sudan-darfur-coup-burhan-violence-tribal/314cb23a-d88c-11ed-aebd-3fd2ac4c460a_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreDecision on Ukraine warplanes coming ‘before summer,’ says Denmark, as Washington scrambles over intel leak
Fox News Denmark’s acting defense minister on Tuesday said he expects Copenhagen and its NATO allies will reach a decision on sending warplanes to Ukraine “before the summer” as concerns mount over Kyiv’s air defense capabilities amid the classified U.S. document leak. The Pentagon is still scrambling to locate the source of the leaked documents…
Read More