Iran has temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz for live-fire drills on Tuesday as tensions with the US escalate, even as new nuclear talks in Geneva seek to avert open conflict.
Kristi Noem is using Coast Guard aircraft for migrant deportations irking branch’s top brass: report
‘There is a general atmosphere of ‘keep your head down; you don’t want to be on the firing line,’” one office told NBC News
Capesize player Seanergy boosts newbuilding orderbook and hikes dividend
Owner has now three big bulkers on order in China
Sri Lankan lawmakers scrap their pensions in a sweeping vote
Sri Lankan legislators overwhelmingly voted to scrap their pensions, as the ruling Marxist-leaning government delivers a key campaign promise amid public anger over the economic crisis.
Moscow mourners mark two years since Navalny’s death in custody
Mourners gathered in Moscow Monday to mark two years since the death in custody of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, under the shadow of a Kremlin crackdown and just two days since a new analysis reinforced suspicions that he was killed by poi…
‘I don’t want to live in hatred’: Gisèle Pelicot publishes her memoir ‘A Hymn to Life’
On the day that her memoir is published, Gisèle Pelicot has again spoken of her desire to meet and talk with her ex-husband, who repeatedly drugged her and invited strangers over to their house to rape her. Pelicot’s book “A Hymn to Life” covers the f…
News24 | Judge slams Trump administration after removal of Philadelphia slavery exhibit
A judge in the United States has ordered the National Park Service (NPS) to restore an exhibit about nine people who were enslaved by former president George Washington at a historical site in the city of Philadelphia.
Jesse Jackson ‘proved that a black man could be a serious contender for the White House’
Charismatic US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, an eloquent Baptist minister raised in the segregated South who became a close associate of Martin Luther King Jr and twice ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, has died at age 84, his famil…
Jesse Jackson was ‘direct connection to great civil rights era’, says Diane Abbott
MP leads UK tributes to African American campaigner, who has died aged 84Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, dies aged 84Jesse Jackson was a “direct connection to the great era of civil rights”, Diane Abbott said, leading UK tributes to the African Ame…
Russian and Ukrainian officials meet in Geneva for US-brokered talks
The talks are due to be held over two days.