Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment You’re reading an excerpt from the Today’s WorldView newsletter. Sign up to get the rest free, including news from around the globe and interesting ideas and opinions to know, sent to your inbox every weekday. A year ago, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a somewhat unpopular leader in Kyiv, viewed […]

Comment on this story Comment The withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine by the end of the year is “out of the question,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, adding that any peace deal with Kyiv was “impossible.” During a briefing with reporters, Peskov said that Kyiv needed to consider the “new realities” that […]

Comment on this story Comment LIMA, Peru — Violent protests spread across Peru on Tuesday as an international dispute broke out over the dramatic ouster and arrest of former president Pedro Castillo last week by a congress he attempted to dissolve. The leftist presidents of Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Bolivia insisted that the jailed leader […]

Comment on this story Comment JEREMIE, Haiti — A U.S. Navy hospital ship docked in southwest Haiti has temporarily suspended medical services after 19 people with the mission fell overboard amid a heavy swell hitting the Caribbean region, officials said Tuesday. It happened Monday night and involved 12 military personnel and seven civilians with the […]

MEXICO CITY — The central Mexico state of Puebla lost its third governor in a row, when Gov. Miguel Barbosa died Tuesday of unspecified causes. The state’s previous two elected governors were killed in a 2018 helicopter crash. Barbosa was a former leader of The Democratic Revolution Party and later joined President Andrés Manuel López […]

Comment on this story Comment The son of an Ethiopian academic who was murdered during the country’s ongoing violence has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent company Meta in Kenya’s High Court, alleging the social media giant is fueling violence and hate across eastern and southern Africa. Abrham Meareg Amare claims in the lawsuit that […]

Comment on this story Comment LIMA, Peru — A judge ordered ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody on Tuesday, denying his appeal as authorities build a rebellion case against him. Supreme Court Judge Cesar San Martin Castro’s decision could further inflame violent protests across the country, where people have been demanding Castillo’s […]

With Democrats on the brink of losing unilateral control of the federal government, progressives are pushing their party’s leaders to boost funding for the agency that helps guard workers’ rights to organize. “We need to get this done this Congress, between now and December 31st, because I’m not going to sit here and pretend that […]

Comment on this story Comment The Pentagon is preparing to send the Patriot missile system to Ukraine, senior U.S. officials said Tuesday, a move that would provide the government in Kyiv with the most advanced air defense weapon in the American arsenal as Russia carries out an unrelenting assault on the country’s electrical grid. The […]

Comment on this story Comment BRISBANE, Australia — Australian police are investigating the extremist views of three people who shot and killed two officers and a neighbor at a rural property before they were killed hours later by police in a gunfight. In all, six people died in the violence Monday in Queensland state. The […]