Category: World News

One scandal too many: British PM Boris Johnson resigns

LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics. Months of defiance ended almost with […]

Factbox: The many scandals of Boris Johnson’s premiership

LONDON, July 6 – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clinging to power on Wednesday, after ministers quit the cabinet following a scandal over whether Johnson’s office told the truth about sexual harassment allegations against a lawmaker. Johnson survived a no-confidence vote from his fellow Conservative members of […]

G-20 meeting may lead to wider divisions over war in Ukraine

WASHINGTON — Foreign ministers from the world’s largest nations are looking to address Russia’s war in Ukraine and its impact on global energy and food security when they meet in Indonesia this week. Yet instead of providing unity, the talks may well exacerbate existing divides over the Ukraine conflict. U.S. Secretary of […]

Twitter pursues judicial review of Indian orders to take down content

NEW DELHI, July 5 – Twitter on Tuesday asked an Indian court to overturn some government orders to remove content from the social media platform, a source familiar with the matter said, in a legal challenge which alleges abuse of power by officials. The U.S. company’s attempt to […]

NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland

BRUSSELS — The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative approvals — and possible political trouble in Turkey. The move further increases Russia’s strategic isolation in […]

‘Hell on earth’: Ukrainian soldiers describe eastern front

BAKHMUT, Ukraine — Torched forests and cities burned to the ground. Colleagues with severed limbs. Bombardments so relentless the only option is to lie in a trench, wait and pray. Ukrainian soldiers returning from the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region — where Russia is waging a fierce offensive […]

Hope and despair: Kathy Gannon on 35 years in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan policeman opened fire on us with his AK-47, emptying 26 bullets into the back of the car. Seven slammed into me, and at least as many into my colleague, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus. She died at my side. Anja weighed heavy against […]

Russia claims capture of pivotal city in eastern Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia’s defense minister said Russian forces took control Sunday of the last major Ukrainian-held city in Ukraine’s Luhansk province, bringing Moscow closer to its stated goal of seizing all of Ukraine’s Donbas region. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin that Russia’s troops together […]

Russia’s messages with missiles tell West to back off

KYIV, Ukraine — The latest in a litany of horrors in Ukraine came this week as Russian firepower rained down on civilians in a busy shopping mall far from the front lines of a war in its fifth month. The timing was not likely a coincidence. While much of the […]

Russian missiles kill at least 21 in Ukraine’s Odesa region

POKROVSK, Ukraine — Russian missile attacks on residential areas killed at least 21 people early Friday near the Ukrainian port of Odesa, authorities reported, a day after the withdrawal of Moscow’s forces from an island in the Black Sea seemed to ease the threat to the city. Video […]

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