MMR vaccine administer prep is pictured during a drive at the City of Lubbock Health Department in Lubbock, Texas, U.S. on February 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United States has recorded its first measles-related death in over a decade, as a growing number of cases sweeps across the country, with Texas emerging as … Read more
Friedrich Merz | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar While addressing the media after the results of Germany’s Feb. 23 election were out, the leader of the leading conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party, Christian Social Union, Friedrich Merz, opined that the staggering rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), … Read more
“Our two nations are allies in this battle,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his address to the U.S. Congress in December 2022. “We have to defeat the Kremlin…This struggle will define in what world our children and grandchildren will live…,” he said. The Ukrainian President was accorded a hero’s welcome in Washington DC, and both Biden … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraces and greets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street, London, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday (March 1, 2025) and told him he had the nation’s unwavering support a day after the blowout at the … Read more
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on February 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters The story so far: U.S. President Donald Trump recently unveiled plans to sell $5 million “gold card” resident permits to non-Americans worldwide, a long-term visa policy that might eventually offer … Read more
Palestinians sit at a large table surrounded by the rubble of destroyed homes and buildings as they gather for iftar, the fast-breaking meal, on the first day of Ramadan in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on March 1, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The latest round of talks on the second phase of the ceasefire between … Read more
Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week. File | Photo Credit: AP Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied territories, a … Read more
An aerial views shows a building on fire due to the spread of a wildfire in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, February 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Japan was battling its largest wildfire in more than three decades on Saturday, one of several blazes that have killed one person and forced the evacuation of … Read more
Current and former federal workers and members of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) protest outside the John D. Dingell Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Detroit, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP A second email asking U.S. Federal workers to justify their jobs was sent on Friday (February 28, 2025), as part … Read more
Pakistan police officials. File | Photo Credit: AP As many as 23 members of minority Ahmadi community were arrested in Punjab province of Pakistan for offering ‘Friday prayers,’ prohibited for them under law. The police received a call that 27 Ahmadis were offering juma (Friday) prayers at their place of worship at Daska, Sialkot, some … Read more