Former US Representative Liz Cheney implored new college graduates not to compromise on the truth, excoriating fellow House Republicans for not doing enough to combat former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 elections were stolen. In a commencement speech at Colorado College, the Wyoming Republican repeated her fierce criticism of Trump but avoided discussing … Read more
CAIRO (AP) — The United States and Saudi Arabia have called on warring parties in Sudan to extend a fragile ceasefire set to expire on Monday as weeks of fighting stalemate in the capital. and elsewhere in the African country. The Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary force, fighting for control of Sudan since mid-April, … Read more
DAMASCUS (AP) — Airstrikes attributed to Israel targeted the Syrian capital on Sunday evening, the first such strikes in a month, Syrian state media reported. Syrian air defenses responded to strikes in the vicinity of Damascus and shot down some, the official SANA news agency reported. The attack only caused “property damage”, he added. The … Read more
CHICAGO (AP) — During Donald Trump’s first visit as president to Chicago, a frequent target of his attacks on urban violence, he denigrated the nation’s third-largest city as a haven for criminals and a national embarrassment . At a recent town hall, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sat alongside former convicts on the city’s South … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin is panicking over the expected Ukrainian counter-offensive, which may already be in its preliminary “battlefield shaping” phase. He doesn’t know, any more than the rest of us, when the offensive will be launched, where it will strike or if it will succeed. What he does know is that if he … Read more
(Recasts title and lead to add “dear friend”) MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated his “dear friend” Tayyip Erdogan who claimed victory in Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, saying the victory was proof that the Turkish people value foreign policy independent of Erdogan. “The election victory is the natural result of … Read more
Associated Press (AP) – Christian Jonathan’s mother held the 9-month-old boy in her arms when she was shot dead during an attack on their village in northwestern Nigeria. The assailants cut off one of Christian’s fingers and left him on the side of the road with a bullet in his small leg. “They left him … Read more
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (right) welcomes the Sultan of Oman to Tehran Sultan Haitham bin Tarik of Oman, whose Gulf country is a longtime mediator between Iran and the West, arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit. His trip comes just two days after Tehran freed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele from nearly … Read more
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s main opposition parties boycotted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inauguration of a new parliament building on Sunday in a rare show of unity against his ruling Hindu Nationalist Party, which has since ruled nine years and is seeking a third term in elections next year. Modi opened the new parliament in … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s capital was the victim of the biggest drone attack since Russia’s war began, local officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday. At least one person was killed, but officials said dozens of drones were shot down, demonstrating Ukraine’s air defense capability. Russia launched … Read more