Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is continuing to collect pledges for the planned peace summit in Switzerland in mid-June. “Today I spoke with the heads of state and prime ministers of Chile, Albania, Austria and Mozambique,” Zelensky said in his regular video message on Wednesday evening. “Four more countries at the summit – I thank them.” […]
Millions of mourners flocked to a funeral procession in Tehran on Wednesday after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter accident, footage from Iran’s state television showed. The broadcaster showed the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leading a prayer ceremony in front of the victim’s coffins. The procession then made its […]
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Between NOTO, the riverfront, Downtown Topeka and the development of the Polk-Quincy viaduct, community stakeholders got together Monday, May 20, for a bus tour to better understand projects, developments and visions for the Capital City. These include the “Story of Noto in Art”, discussing efforts on the east side of downtown, vacancies […]
Two days after her body was recovered in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of people attended the funeral of German-Israeli Shani Louk in Israel on Sunday. Relatives and friends gathered at the funeral in Srigim near the town of Beit Shemesh to bid farewell to the young woman, who was murdered in the terrorist attack by […]
Donald and Melania Trump are attending their son Barron’s high school graduation ceremony together in Florida on Friday as the former president’s criminal hush money trial enters its final throes. The former president and first lady are to attend alongside other parents in Palm Beach, Florida. Barron Trump, 18, is participating in the ceremonial moment, […]
TO: All congressional Republicans SUBJECT: Rules for mandatory visits to Donald Trump’s UNJUST criminal trial Just a quick reminder that every Republican lawmaker in the House and Senate is required to make at least one day trip to the Manhattan criminal courthouse while our hero and presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump, is being persecuted […]
President Michael D Higgins and Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald have attended a football match featuring the Palestinian women’s team in Dublin. The fixture against Bohemiams FC at Dalymount Park on Wednesday evening was the Palestinian side’s first match in Europe. Bohemians invited the team as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian people, […]
Jade Araujo, a tribal citizen of Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head – Aquinnah) in Massachusetts, who also traces her lineage to the Tlingit and Koyukon Athabascan tribes in Alaska, joins a select group as the recipient of the American Indian College Fund Law School Scholarship. A senior at Stanford University majoring in political science,Araujo will […]
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott will be in court on Thursday. But he won’t be the one on trial. The Republican Florida senator is set to attend former President Donald Trump’s hush-money trial in Manhattan as jurors hear another day of testimony from Stormy Daniels, the porn star who says that she was paid to keep […]
May 5—At about 3:45 a.m. Aug. 1, 2021, Geraldine Toya was sleeping at her Jemez Pueblo home when she got the phone call any parent dreads. Toya said an Albuquerque police officer told her that her daughter, Shawna Toya, 40, was dead. Geraldine said Shawna was found unresponsive in a vehicle at an Albuquerque park […]
MONTICELLO, Ill. (WCIA) — Allerton Park in Monticello hosted their first Bluebell Festival this weekend. The three-day event included bands, food trucks, and art sales happening near the park mansion. On Sunday, Country Arbors Nursery hosted a plant sale. Champaign County Master Gardeners holding annual Garden Walk in June Park Supervisor Lucas Rund said hundreds […]
By Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – It will be hard for Taiwan to attend this year’s World Health Organization annual assembly, and it hopes more countries will support its presence, the island’s foreign minister said on Thursday after the United States pressed for an invite. Taiwan is excluded from most international organisations because of objections […]