U.S. and Russian negotiators on Monday (March 24, 2025) sat down for talks in Saudi Arabia on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine, hours after a round of negotiations between U.S. and Ukrainian delegations, Russian news reports said. The State Tass and RIA-Novosti news agencies said the negotiations had begun in the capital Riyadh. The meeting … Read more
Riot police officers use anti-riot rifles and pepper spray to clear protesters during a protest after Istanbul’s Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested and sent to prison, in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP “Turkish authorities have detained nine journalists who covered overnight protests in several cities against the arrest of Istanbul … Read more
A Yemeni checks debris at his home after U.S. airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen, on March 24, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels pounded sites across the country into Monday (March 24, 2025), with the group saying the one attack in the capital killed at least one person and wounded … Read more
Members of security forces stand guard during the arrival of Venezuelan migrants on a repatriation flight. (Representational image only) | Photo Credit: Reuters Venezuela on Monday (March 24, 2025) received nearly 200 citizens deported from the United States via Honduras, as President Donald Trump cracks down on undocumented foreigners. A plane carrying the deportees touched … Read more
Tourists from Western Europe are the most likely to choose other destinations, along with Canadians and Mexicans. | Photo Credit: AFP In just a few weeks, the U.S. tourism outlook has clouded as a result of some of President Donald Trump’s policy decisions, which have angered some foreign visitors and prompted fear of a surge … Read more
Nadim Khmaladze has been joining thousands of fellow Georgians on the streets every evening since November when Tbilisi’s increasingly repressive Government shelved EU membership talks. The 60-year-old rights activist said he was “ready to face police violence” when he first joined the anti-Government rallies in Tbilisi, but he never imagined that standing on the street … Read more
Living in the gutted-out eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, Maryna has learned to recognise the sound of the devastating Russian glide bombs that have pounded her city for months. Equipped with wings to help them glide over dozens of kilometres, the bombs are part of an arsenal developed by Russia to let it hit deeper … Read more
Iceland’s President on Sunday (March 23, 2025) accepted the resignation of the North Atlantic island nation’s Children’s Minister, who quit the government over a relationship she had with a teenager more than three decades ago. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir stepped down after national broadcaster RUV revealed last week that she had a child 35 years ago … Read more
A judge has ordered Mr. Khalil not to be deported while his lawsuit challenging his detention, known as a habeas petition, is heard in another federal court. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The U.S. Government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief … Read more
Sri Lanka’s former President Ranil Wickremesinghe. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka’s former President Ranil Wickremesinghe has criticised President Anura Kumara Dissanayake-led government for failing to move ahead with a Renewable Energy Project in Mannar with Indian Conglomerate, Adani. Mr. Wickremesinghe made these remarks during a televised discussion on Saturday (March 22, 2025) the text … Read more