President Donald Trump holds briefing on opioid crisis, delivers stern warning to North Korea
MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan/NEW DELHI— India said it attacked nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday where strikes against it had been planned, and Pakistan reported at least three people died and 12 were injured, according to an initial assessment. The offensive occurred amid heightened tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors in the aftermath of an…
President Emmanuel Macron will meet political party leaders on Thursday and address the nation on TV to call for unity and try to prevent any spillover of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France, where there has been a rise in antisemitic acts. France has Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has in…
Donald Trump issued a scalding statement about ‘corrupt’ BBC executives meddling in the US presidential election after the media company’s director-general quietly quit. The president shared his message about the exodus of BBC higher-ups from the company amid a row over the doctoring of his speech for a Panorama episode and misleading viewers. ‘The TOP people in the BBC,…
Supporters of Brazil’s outgoing far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, tried to attack the headquarters of the federal police in Brasilia on Monday. Tension escalated after police arrested a pro-Bolsonaro indigenous leader. Mr Bolsonaro was defeated in last month’s election by his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, but some of his supporters refuse to recognise…
US agreed to give Iran 5 prisoners and unfreeze $6 billion in assets Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi says the Iranian government will spend the $6 billion it gained in a prisoner exchange with the U.S., “wherever we need it.” Raisi made the comments in an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt on Tuesday after coming…
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – The United States carried out airstrikes on Friday in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and the militias it backs, the U.S. military said, after a deadly attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. troops and injured some 40 others. The strikes…