France’s political leaders are scrambling to prepare for snap elections after President Emmanuel Macron dissolved parliament in response to a stinging European vote defeat by the far-right National Rally. Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has warned the two-round vote, starting on 30 June could have “the most serious consequences” in modern French history. German Chancellor…
The foreign ministers of BRICS member nations – and another 13 countries interested in collaborating with the anti-Western bloc – convened in Russia on Monday for a meeting outside of the confines of the BRICS annual summit to discuss, among other issues, ways to expand trade without the use of the U.S. dollar. “The proactive…
A Gaza journalist who wrote for Al Jazeera was holding three hostages in his home with his family before he was killed by Israeli commandos during a rescue operation Saturday, according to the Israeli military. Abdallah Aljamal, who also worked as a spokesman for the Hamas-run labor ministry, was killed when special forces soldiers stormed…
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgency detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of international organizations in a string of raids on Thursday, including employees of the United Nations, according to the internationally recognized government of Yemen. Armed Houthi intelligence officers reportedly raided the homes and offices of nine U.N. employees, plus three people who work for a…
BRUSSELS/LONDON, June 7 (Reuters) – Some of the world’s major economies want to finalise a plan ahead of this year’s U.N. climate summit to halt new private sector funding for coal projects, five sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. If approved, the draft proposal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,…
Greetings from Tyler, History is being made, believe it or not. The pretender says he won’t pardon his son being prosecuted for gun charges. Then, he said he’s going to debate Trump. Probably something will come up that will make that impossible, but in the mean time he’s putting on a brave face. He better…
June 6 (UPI) — Russia will begin air and naval exercises in the Caribbean next week, according to Cuban and U.S. government officials. The exercise involves three Russian Navy ships and a nuclear-powered submarine, which will arrive on June 12 at the Port of Havana in Cuba and stay for one week, according to a…
For the last eight months, a remote Brazilian tribe has been getting high-speed internet for the first time. The Marubo people live in one of the most isolated spots on the planet and although they have contact with the outside world, the tribe has preserved a traditional way of life for centuries. They sleep in…
Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday. The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its “precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations” inside Rafah. “This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside…
June 6 (Reuters) – SpaceX’s Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket’s fourth try. Starship’s controlled fall into the Indian Ocean just 65 minutes after launching from Texas capped the…