A group of 19 police officers stood for about 45 minutes in the hallway outside Texas classrooms where the gunman killed 19 third- and fourth-grade students and two teachers this week before US Border Patrol agents unlocked the door to confront and kill him, Texas […]
Stocks continued to rebound from a steep rout that drove the market down for seven straight weeks, with rebalancing from institutional investors potentially lifting equities at the end of the month. The SP 500 wiped out its May losses and posted its biggest weekly gain […]
US President Joe Biden says his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is trying to “wipe out” Ukrainian culture and identity. Russia’s finance minister says he expects to receive $14.4bn in additional energy revenues this year, part of which will go to fund the country’s offensive in […]
A military court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has sentenced to death eight soldiers and three civilians for selling arms to a violent rebel group. At a public hearing on Friday, court president Colonel Kelly Dianga sentenced the eight soldiers, including three […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told his Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid that “investigations” must be completed into the death of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the State Department said. In a statement on Friday describing talks with the Israeli foreign minister, the State […]
Uvalde, Texas, US – Tracy Colton doesn’t know what to say. “We have family members come in to pick up photos of their children who died,” said the 47-year-old manager of the Walgreens pharmacy in downtown Uvalde. “What do you say to them? There’s nothing you […]
Former United States President Donald Trump has lost a bid to stop the New York state attorney general’s investigation into his business practices, allowing the three-year probe to continue. In a 43-page ruling, US District Judge Brenda Sannes said on Friday that she based her […]
Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf on Friday, Iranian state media reported, shortly after Tehran warned it would take “punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from a tanker held off the Greek coast. Iran’s […]
Israeli forces injured almost 90 people during protests in the occupied West Bank over the confiscation of Palestinian flags by Jewish settlers and Israeli soldiers. The Palestine Red Crescent Society said on Friday that at least one Palestinian was shot in the leg and taken […]
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said China poses the most serious long-term challenge to the international order. He made the comment as he unveiled the Biden administration’s strategy to compete with China’s rise as a global superpower and insisted Washington does not want […]
