Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. File. | Photo Credit: AP Turkish police on Wednesday (March 18, 2025) arrested Istanbul’s Mayor — a key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and terror links, media reported. The state-run Anadolu Agency said prosecutors issued warrants for some 100 other people. … Read more
An evacuee reacts on meeting a relative at a Russian military checkpoint west of Kursk. | Photo Credit: AFP Russian pensioner Olga Shkuratova trembled, clutching a scrap of paper bearing a handwritten phone number for her son. She had not spoken to him in the seven months that she was trapped by Ukraine’s incursion into … Read more
Watch: Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore back on Earth NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday (March 18, 2025), hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico … Read more
A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi being received by Poland Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław T. Bartoszewski on his arrival, in Warsaw. | Photo Credit: ANI Poland’s Secretary of State and Deputy Foreign Minister, Wladyslaw Teofil Bartoszewski said on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) that the relationship between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister … Read more
The arrest of student activist Mahmoud Khalil has crystallised concerns over freedom of speech under the Republican leader’s administration — and fueled warnings that Mr. Trump is out to quell dissent. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Hit by massive funding cuts and a crackdown on student protesters, Columbia University is under fire from U.S. President … Read more
People gather on the rubble of a house hit by a U.S. strike in Saada, Yemen March 16, 2025 | Photo Credit: Reuters At least 10 U.S. strikes targeted areas in Yemen, including Saada province and Hodeidah, Yemen’s Houthi media reported early on Wednesday (March 19, 2025). The U.S. launched a wave of strikes in … Read more
Watch: Sunita and Butch exit SpaceX capsule, head to Houston for recovery NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore have safely returned to Earth after spending over nine months in space due to a series of delays with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. Their journey, which was originally planned as a one-week test mission, finally ended … Read more
John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jaqueline Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connally ride in a liousine moments before Kennedy was assassinated, in Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Unredacted documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday (March 18, 2025) following an order by President Donald … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. File. | Photo Credit: AO Russia and Ukraine accused each other early on Wednesday (March 19, 2025) of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure just hours after President Vladimir Putin agreed to a limited ceasefire in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Mr. Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian … Read more
President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, intensifying efforts to exert his administration’s control over independent agencies across the government. Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter said they’d been dismissed illegally and would sue to block Trump’s order. They also said they consider themselves still part of … Read more