His funeral will be held in Boston, the athlete’s mother, Iya Naumova, said. Rescuers have recovered the body of Russian figure skater Vadim Naumov who was killed in a passenger plane in the United States earlier this week, the athlete’s mother, Iya Naumova, told. Evgenia Shishkova, who was flying with Naumov, did not survive either….
Supplies via the TurkStream gas pipeline to European countries in January increased by 2% compared to December 2024 and jumped by 27% compared to January 2024 to 1.56 bln cubic meters. Russia increased gas exports to Europe via the TurkStream pipeline in January to a record high since its launch in 2020 – 1.56 bln…
The Trump administration is seeking to grant US immigration officers access to a database that contains information on immigrant minors who crossed into the United States without their parents, the Washington Post quoted White House border czar Tom Homan as saying on Friday. While noting that the information would mainly be used to ensure the…
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba will visit him next week at the White House and he looks forward to the conversation. “They’re coming in to speak to me and I’m looking forward to it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The meeting is expected to take…
Former Fox Sports reporter and anchor Julie Stewart-Binks has filed a lawsuit against the network and executive vice president for content Charlie Dixon. A former Fox Sports reporter and anchor filed a lawsuit Friday against the network and top executive Charlie Dixon, saying he sexually assaulted her after coaxing her up to his hotel room…
President Donald Trump has pushed into new trade law territory with an emergency sanctions law to justify punishing 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and an extra 10 percent duty on Chinese goods to curb fentanyl and illegal immigration into the US. Trade and legal experts said the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu named retired Major General Eyal Zamir as Israel’s new armed forces chief Saturday after his predecessor resigned last month taking responsibility for failing to stop Hamas’s October 2023 attack. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have agreed this evening on the appointment of Major General (Res.) Eyal Zamir…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will start negotiations on the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire when he meets with US President Donald Trump’s Middle East Envoy, Steve Witkoff, on Monday in Washington, Netanyahu’s office said late on Saturday. Netanyahu is scheduled to depart Israel on Sunday for Washington, where he is to meet next…
The United States military on Saturday conducted air strikes on ISIS group targets in Somalia, President Donald Trump announced. “This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia,” Trump said on Truth Social. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes targeted…
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told his US counterpart Donald Trump on Saturday that the world was relying on him “to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement” to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Saturday’s phone call was the first between the two leaders since Trump repeatedly floated a plan to relocate Palestinians…
An explosion at a Ukrainian army recruitment center in the western city of Rivne on Saturday killed one person and wounded six, police said. Authorities did not say what caused the explosion or reveal details on the casualties. The center handles and maintains military records and is responsible for drafting men into the army as…
Artillery shelling and airstrikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum on Saturday, according to a medical source and Sudanese activists. Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a battle for power since April 2023 that has intensified this month as the army fights to take all…
Political parties in Belgium agreed on Friday to form a new government, the office of Belgian King Philippe said, ending almost eight months of complicated talks that followed the election victory of Flemish nationalist party N-VA. N-VA leader Bart De Wever, 54, is expected to become prime minister and lead a broad five-party coalition, which…
Arab foreign ministers on Saturday rejected the transfer of Palestinians from their land under any circumstances, presenting a unified stance against US President Donald Trump’s call for Egypt and Jordan to take in residents of the Gaza Strip. In a joint statement following a meeting in Cairo, the foreign ministers and officials from Egypt, Jordan,…
Three buses carrying Palestinian prisoners released by Israel as part of a ceasefire deal arrived in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis on Saturday, an AFP correspondent reported. The prisoners, many wearing gray prison uniforms, were greeted by hundreds of Gazans who gathered around the buses as they approached the city’s European Hospital. The…
