Category: World News
Trump Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations
New York Times Scientists worry that the losses may open the door to human, plant and animal diseases that would otherwise have been caught. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/health/trump-border-health-inspections.html
Read MorePope Francis shows slight improvement, receives visit from Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
Fox News Pope Francis showed a slight improvement while battling pneumonia on Wednesday and received a visit from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor as he battles a case of pneumonia. Meloni said she wanted to wish Francis well on behalf of the Italian…
Read MoreHamas to turn over bodies of Shiri Bibas and 2 young children
Fox News The Israeli government has received confirmation on the identities of the deceased hostages due to be released from Gaza on Thursday. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum Headquarters confirmed the names of Shiri Bibas and her two children, as well as Oded Lifshitz, a journalist and peace activist. All four were murdered while…
Read MoreItalian Prime Minister Meloni visits Pope Francis in hospital, says he’s in good spirits
Fox News Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Pope Francis in hospital Wednesday and reported he was “alert and responsive” and full of good humor, despite his diagnosis of pneumonia and a complicated bronchial infection that has sidelined the 88-year-old pontiff for six days. Meloni said she wanted to bring get-well wishes to the pope on…
Read MoreTrump Jr. hunting party investigated over killing of protected duck in Italy
Washington Post Activists said video showed Trump Jr. with a dead ruddy shelduck, a protected species, near the Venice Lagoon. His spokesman said the group had the necessary permits. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/19/trump-jr-hunting-italy-venice-protected-duck/
Read MorePresident Trump can stop Iran’s march to nuclear weapons: ‘re-establish credible military threat’, report says
Fox News EXCLUSIVE: President Donald Trump’s second term in office presents a historic chance to reverse the Biden administration’s failed Iran policies and prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons, a new report from the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) argues. The report, titled “Detecting and Halting an Iranian Weaponization Effort,” argues that the…
Read MoreEU warns Trump against letting Putin divide the US and Europe: ‘Let’s not do him the favor’
Fox News A top European Union official is warning President Donald Trump against letting Russian President Vladimir Putin succeed in dividing a decades-old alliance between the U.S. and Europe as Trump seeks to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. “It is clear that any deal on Ukraine that doesn’t involve Europe will fail,”…
Read MoreBodies of Bibas family, symbol of hostage horrors, to be returned, Hamas says
Washington Post Shiri Bibas and her sons Ariel, 4, and baby Kfir were filmed being taken from their kibbutz on Oct. 7, 2023. Her husband, Yarden, was freed recently. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/19/bibas-family-shiri-ariel-kfir-israel-gaza/
Read MoreIranian crown prince calls for global action against Khamenei’s regime
Fox News Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi is calling for global action to defeat the Islamic Republic’s regime. Pahlavi says the regime is “weaker than it has ever been” and the people of Iran are ready to take back their “stolen country.” Pahlavi spoke at the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy on Tuesday,…
Read MoreExperts give up hope for 157 false killer whales stranded on remote Australian beach
Fox News Marine experts have given up hope of rescuing more than 150 false killer whales that stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday. Experts including veterinarians were at the scene near the Arthur River on Tasmania’s northwestern coast where 157 whales were discovered on an exposed…
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