After the Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California – an event echoing former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last year – the Chinese military staged a massive drill around the independent island that...
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An internationally supported 24-hour ceasefire agreed Tuesday between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was over as soon as it had begun, Reuters reported. The ceasefire was supposed to bring a temporary end to four days of intense fighting that since Saturday has...
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Slovakia became the third European Union country to ban food imports from Ukraine on Tuesday, a decision that follows complaints from farmers claiming that a glut of Ukrainian grain is causing them economic hardship even as countries in the Middle East and Africa remain desperate...
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Tunisian authorities closed the headquarters of the opposition party Ennahdha Tuesday, a day after its leader was arrested in what government critics have described as efforts by President Kais Saied to quash dissent, Al Jazeera reported. Party representatives said police raided Ennahdha’s building and ordered its...
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Scientists have discovered that plants scream bloody murder when in distress, the Washington Post reported. It’s their cry for help, researchers said. To discover this, biologist Lilach Hadany and her colleagues conducted a study involving various plants, including tomatoes, tobacco, and cacti. The researchers placed the plants in...
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