After a night of steadily escalating hostilities between India and Pakistan, including each side launching attacks on the other’s military bases, President Donald Trump announced on Saturday morning that his administration was able to mediate a “full and immediate ceasefire” in the conflict.
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.
Ukraine and its allies are ready for a “full, unconditional ceasefire” with Russia for at least 30 days starting on Monday, Ukrainian FM Andrii Sybiha said Saturday.
The UK does not have a blasphemy law, but that didn’t stop the state Prosecutor trying their best, leading to a volte-face after backlash.
The second-generation Rwandan teen who murdered three young girls last year at a dance party in Southport, England, has allegedly attacked a prison guard in a reportedly premeditated assault.
Indian officials have offered a dramatic reduction in tariffs across the board in exchange for relief from President Donald Trump’s tariffs, a report says.
The neo-liberal government of Poland has claimed that Russia has deployed an “unprecedented” level of disinformation and other interference tactics amid the impending presidential election, as the conservative challenger has gained in the polls.
Allies of strongman Vladimir Putin were treated to a lavish banquet on Thursday at the Kremlin as part of Russia’s 80th “Victory Day” anniversary celebrations.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is running for his old job as mayor of Davao City from a detention cell in The Hague.
The Communist Party of Russia on Thursday unveiled a bust of brutal dictator Josef Stalin in the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol.
Indian and Pakistani forces traded artillery and small-arms fire across the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed province of Kashmir on Thursday night.
Peruvians are enthusiastically celebrating the election on Thursday of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Bishop of Rome.
Controversial transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney was seen promoting Versace’s new women’s collection last week, despite the brand recently suffering a decrease in global sales, as well as in spite of a similar move sparking a national boycott against Bud Light a few years ago, tanking the beer’s sales.
The head of Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, threatened to “open the gates of Hell” against America and Israel on Thursday, a bellicose declaration reportedly preceding another round of “indirect” American-Iranian talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Actress Maggie Gyllenhaal’s daughter was reportedly arrested among the chaotic scene at Columbia University in New York on Wednesday when anti-Israel activists shoved their way into a library.
Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily on Friday morning since being elected to be the terrestrial head of the Catholic Church, emphasizing the challenge of leading people to Jesus in a world that often disparages the faith as “absurd” or “weak.”
The Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement on Friday congratulating Pope Leo XIV on his ascent to the helm of the Catholic Church.
Putin’s Victory parade in Moscow was noticeably larger in scale than in recent years and featured Ukraine strike drones for the first time.
The first Afrikaner refugees are set to arrive in the U.S. on Monday under President Donald Trump’s policy of granting them asylum due to racial discrimination and threats of expropriation by the South African government.
In a visit with Fox News, “Star Trek” star William Shatner, a proud Canadian, ridiculed President Donald Trump’s suggestion that Canada should become America’s 51st state, and he even had a counter offer of his own for Trump.v
Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily, a sermon in the Catholic liturgy, on Friday morning after being chosen by the College of Cardinals as the successor to St. Peter the Apostle on May 8.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied reports that Iran has proposed “direct” nuclear talks with the United States, and possibly even a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Masoud Pezeshkian.
President Donald Trump indicated that he would approve an 80 percent tariff on China but said the path of the negotiations would be up to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B,” Trump said in
Enforcement actions by the Trump administration continue to yield record-shattering declines in the number of migrants attempting to enter the United States from Mexico. The number of apprehensions in April fell by nearly 13 percent from the previous month and more than 95 percent compared to last year. During the first week of May, agents along the entire southwest border apprehended approximately 270 per day.
Germany’s political police bureau has temporarily suspended wiretaps of AfD parliamentarians pending an urgent legal review filed by party.
Crime rates have grown in Italy to such an extent that around seven in ten women in the country report that they are afraid to walk outside alone at night.
Netanyahu is reaching the point where he will attack Iran’s nuclear sides — and, ironically, it is President Donald Trump who is pushing him there.
Conservative former President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro, still recovering from a delicate 12-hour surgery, participated in a peaceful rally on Wednesday in Brasília calling for amnesty for the January 8 riot participants.
British comedian Stewart Lee says he won’t book shows in the United States because he fears he’d be arrested for his jokes in Trump’s America.
Argentine President Javier Milei celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV on Thursday by sharing an image on social media, apparently generated by artificial intelligence, of a lion in papal regalia.
The trade deal between the United Kingdom and United States “puts our great American agricultural producers first,” Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Thursday.
A flourishing industry of “origin washing” services has appeared on Chinese social media, offering to help export companies evade U.S. tariffs by pretending their products were shipped from other Asian countries like Vietnam and Thailand.
India’s governing BJP party said on Thursday that its “Operation Sindhoor” counter-terrorist airstrikes on Pakistan “eliminated” Abdul Rauf Azhar, the operational commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist group and the mastermind behind American journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and beheading in 2002.
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Department Organized Crime Unit executed two search warrants on residences in San Antonio, leading to the arrest of five suspects due to a long-running investigation into human smuggling. Sheriff Javier Salazar told reporters one suspect is believed to be a member of the notorious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang.
The Catholic Church elected its new leader on Thursday when the conclave ended with the selection of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost.
