In a display of Beijing’s growing military reach, the Chinese Navy sent two aircraft carriers into the Pacific Ocean, far from the country’s coast, for the first time to conduct exercises together, Japan’s defense minister, Gen Nakatani, said. Mr. Nakatani told reporters on Monday that the Chinese aircraft carriers were spotted launching and retrieving jet … Read more
Former Student Kills At Least Ten People in Austria School Shooting
A French teaching assistant died on Tuesday after being stabbed several times during a bag search at a middle school in France. The police quickly arrested a 14-year-old student at the school in Nogent, a small town in northeastern France, according to the local authorities. Students, many of whom were in a state of distress … Read more
Images from Los Angeles this week of demonstrators throwing rocks and police officers spraying tear gas mirror scenes of other recent confrontations between protesters and the authorities from around the world. Los Angeles has been convulsed by public outrage since the Trump administration launched a series of immigration raids on Friday. In response to the … Read more
new video loaded: Israel Deports Greta Thunberg After Intercepting Gaza Aid Boat transcript Back transcript Israel Deports Greta Thunberg After Intercepting Gaza Aid Boat The Israeli Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that it would deport four activists who were detained aboard an aid ship bound for Gaza, including the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg. “On international … Read more
new video loaded: Protest Over Sexual Assault Case in Northern Ireland Turns Violent transcript Back transcript Protest Over Sexual Assault Case in Northern Ireland Turns Violent Officials said they were investigating the attacks on businesses and houses in Ballymena as racially motivated. I want to condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms. It has … Read more
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and one of the country’s most polarizing political figures, was sentenced to prison on Tuesday and barred for life from public office after the Supreme Court upheld her corruption conviction. The ruling is likely to deepen political tensions in the country and comes after Mrs. Kirchner, who was … Read more
A federal appeals court on Tuesday said the Trump administration did not have to comply for now with a judge’s order to give due process to scores of Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador under a wartime law. The ruling, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came … Read more
Why is the U.S. military in L.A.? The use of military force on domestic soil in the U.S. is rare, and it is usually reserved only for the most extreme situations. In deploying 4,000 members of the National Guard and 700 Marines in response to protests over immigration raids in Los Angeles, President Trump is … Read more
The standoff between President Trump’s negotiating team and Iran boils down to this: whether the United States is willing to risk allowing Iran to continue producing nuclear fuel if the alternative is no deal and the possibility of another war in the Middle East. To Mr. Trump and his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, the negotiations … Read more