COVID Hospitalizations Dropping Nationwide
Partial U-turn by Berlin fails to avert week-long nationwide action that government says could be co-opted by rightwing extremists German farmers blocked city centres, highways and motorway slip roads with tractors at the start of a week-long, nationwide protest over planned cuts to agricultural sector subsidies that the government said could be co-opted by rightwing…
Rwanda government has confirmed that it shot a warplane belonging to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for violating its airspace. On Tuesday, a video circulated of a projectile shooting a Sukhoi-25 fighter plane. Other videos and pictures also circulated of Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC) soldiers putting off the fire…
Russia says Ukraine has launched “a terrorist drone attack” on Moscow, with several buildings damaged. It is the first time Moscow has been so heavily targeted in a single operation, but Ukraine denies carrying out the strikes. What was hit by the drones? The Russian military says eight drones were used in the strikes. It…
ZURICH, March 16 (Reuters) – The Swiss government on Monday pressed the electorate to reject an initiative aimed at restricting the population to 10 million, which it argues will jeopardise cooperation with the European Union and damage the economy. The initiative, supported by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, or SVP, faces a referendum on June…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his reportedly tense meeting with U.S President Donald Trump last week was “positive” — even though he did not secure the Tomahawk missiles for Ukraine — and emphasized what he said is continued American interest in economic deals with Kyiv. Zelenskyy said Trump reneged on the…
The Supreme Court will meet behind closed doors Friday to consider a longshot bid to overturn its decade-old same-sex marriage precedent, an appeal that is churning fear among some LGBTQ advocates even though the justices themselves have repeatedly signaled little appetite for reopening the landmark decision. The pending appeal comes from Kim Davis, a former…