American riots: Protesters leave but looting continues in Los Angeles
The AP recently issued a fact check alleging that various outlets have misrepresented information presented in a recent reportknown as the 8 March Principles written by the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), endorsed by members affiliated with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and…
Finnish authorities seized a vessel on Wednesday, suspected of sabotaging an undersea telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea. Finnish police seized on Wednesday a ship sailing from Russia suspected of sabotaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estoniaacross the Gulf of Finland, an area hit by a string of similar incidents in recent…
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the country’s military to increase its number of troops by 180,000 to a total of 1.5 million, as Moscow’s military action in Ukraine drags on for more than 2 ½ years. Putin’s decree, published on the official government website, will take effect Dec. 1. It…
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed their strategic ties and growing energy trade as they met in Beijing Wednesday only days after a visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to China. Putin and Xi oversaw the signing of more than 40 cooperation agreements in areas such as trade,…
JERUSALEM/GAZA/WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Israel formed an emergency unity government on Wednesday as its jets pounded Gaza and tanks massed around the densely populated Palestinian enclave while Hamas militants said they were still fighting on Israeli territory following their shock weekend incursion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to form a war cabinet with former…
BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 2 (UPI) — A senior Hamas leader and two companions were killed Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike in Beirut’s southern suburb, the stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to the militant Palestinian group. Saleh al-Arouri, 58, who served as Hamas’ deputy politburo leader and its military commander of the West Bank, died…