As India geared up for national elections, a video of a police training exercise in Indonesia surfaced in social media posts that falsely claimed it showed clashes between security forces and farmers vying to march to Delhi in a dispute over crop prices. The video was in fact filmed months before the protests began and […]
May 10—AUGUSTA — Maine lawmakers moved Friday afternoon to send nearly 80 additional spending bills to Gov. Janet Mills, who has warned that the initiatives would push state spending past the “breaking point.” Typically, lawmakers only get one additional day at the end of a session to cast override votes on vetoes and occasionally take […]
By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Thursday of risking a global conflict and said no one would be allowed to threaten the world’s biggest nuclear power as Russia marked the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. As Russian troops advance against […]
Unrest continued at Portland State University on Friday, May 3, after multiple arrest were made at an encampment at the college one day prior. Footage captured by Brandon Farley shows protesters and police around the university’s library on Thursday afternoon. Police made an estimated 30 arrests on Thursday, local media reported, of which seven were […]
Max Verstappen won the sprint race in Miami as Fernando Alonso accused Lewis Hamilton of “arriving like a bull” as they collided at the first corner. Verstappen controlled the 19-lap race – which was interrupted by an opening-lap safety car after Hamilton was involved in a coming together with Alonso – to claim a dominant […]
Clashes between rival groups broke out at the UCLA campus overnight into May 1, as a pro-Palestinian encampment came under attack by a pro-Israel group who attempted to tear down its barricades, the LA Times said. Local media reported that firecrackers and fireworks were launched towards the encampment, exploding near groups of tents. This footage […]
Police have removed barricades and begun dismantling pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The move came after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, some of them forming human chains as police fired flash-bang devices to break up the crowds. Some people were detained, with their hands bound using […]
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Palestinian security officers killed a gunman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rare intra-Palestinian clash whose circumstances were disputed and which the fighter’s faction described as an Israeli-style “assassination”. Palestinian Authority security services spokesperson Talak Dweikat said a force sent to patrol Tulkarm overnight came under fire and […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is staying mum about student protests and police crackdowns as Republicans try to turn campus unrest over the war in Gaza into a campaign cudgel against Democrats. Tension at colleges and universities has been building for days as some demonstrators refuse to remove encampments and administrators turn to law […]
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world’s biggest nuclear powers that could end in catastrophe. President Vladimir Putin‘s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has touched off the worst breakdown in relations […]
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel was mere moments away from an airstrike on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders at Iran’s embassy complex in Syria when it told the United States what was about to happen. Israel’s closest ally had just been caught off guard. Aides quickly alerted Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s […]
* Putin speaks to Iranian President Raisi * Putin says: all sides must show restraint * Putin warns: a new confrontation could be catastrophic * Putin says Palestinian-Israeli conflict needs to be solved * Raisi: we do not want to escalate after strikes on Israel (Adds Iranian readout I paragraphs 7-8) By Guy Faulconbridge and […]