President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov) | Photo Credit: Mystyslav Chernov U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy openly argued in the White House on Friday (February 2,2025) as they clashed … Read more
The statue of John Paul II at the Gemelli University Hospital where Pope Francis is hospitalised with pneumonia in Rome on February 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AFP Pope Francis, in hospital with pneumonia, suffered a breathing “crisis” on Friday (February 28, 2025)which caused him to vomit, but he was given air and responded well, … Read more
A view of the towers of the Kremlin during sunset in Moscow, Russia, February 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday (February 28, 2025) it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the instructions of Ukrainian intelligence. There … Read more
President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Friday (February 28, 2025) to sign a rare minerals deal and talk about ending the war with Russia. The … Read more
Palestinian militant group Hamas called on Friday (February 28, 2025) for international pressure on Israel to enter the next phase of a ceasefire that has largely halted the war in Gaza, as negotiations were resuming in Cairo. Also Read | Gaza ceasefire: Israel allows Palestinians to return to north Gaza for the first time in … Read more
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has invited more than a dozen European and EU leaders to a Sunday (March 2, 2025) summit to “drive forward” action on Ukraine and security, his office said. Ahead of the main summit, Mr. Starmer will chair a morning call … Read more
Three years since the war in Ukraine began the U.S. sides with Russia at the UN, and Zelenskyy agrees to accept a compromise mineral deal with Trump, a major European Union delegation makes an outreach to Delhi, seeking to de-risk ties with China. Is the end of the Russia-Ukraine war in sight, and will that … Read more
China plans to send an astronaut from its all-weather ally Pakistan as the first foreign guest to its space station Tiangong. China and Pakistan on Friday (February 28, 2025) signed an agreement including bilateral efforts to select and train Pakistani astronauts and then send some of them to Tiangong, currently orbiting 400 kilometres above the … Read more
Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI) party logo. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/juipakofficial/?profile_tab_item_selected=about&_rdr A powerful bomb exploded at a mosque within a pro-Taliban seminary in northwestern Pakistan on Friday (February 28, 2025), killing at least five worshippers and wounding dozens of others ahead of the fasting month of Ramadan, according to local police. The blast occurred in Akora Khattak, a … Read more
Daily Quiz: significant events on February 28 In this Feb. 28, 1984 file photo, Michael Jackson is seen backstage at the 26th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles as he poses with the awards he won in eight different categories. START THE QUIZ 1 / 6 | This American scientist, born on this day in … Read more