M23 rebels patrol the streets of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. BRIAN INGANGA/AP Representatives of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have initialed a peace agreement aimed at ending the conflict in eastern DRC – a document to be formally signed on June 27, a joint statement said Wednesday, […]
It was already the third alert in two hours. A crackling, automated voice echoed through the corridors and offices with their shuttered windows. “KAB alert,” confirmed a firefighter. KABs, the Russian air-launched glide bombs guided to their targets and loaded with hundreds of kilos of explosives, can destroy an entire building. The men in the […]
Trump’s comments came after Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected his demands for an unconditional surrender and warned the United States of ‘irreparable damage’ if it intervenes. Source link
This photo provided by Gilead Sciences shows packaging for the company’s HIV prevention medication, Yeztugo, (lenacapvir) at a manufacturing facility in La Verne, California, in June 2025. AP The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences’ twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in […]
President Donald Trump speaks as a flag pole is installed on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, June 18, 2025. EVAN VUCCI / AP President Donald Trump said he was considering whether the United States will join Israeli strikes on Iran on Wednesday, June 18, as he said that Tehran had reached […]
France’s President Emmanuel Macron attends a ceremony marking the 85th anniversary of late French General Charles de Gaulle’s World War II resistance call of June 18, 1940, at the Mont-Valerien memorial in Suresnes, outside Paris, France, June 18, 2025. ALAIN JOCARD / VIA REUTERS France is planning along with European partners to suggest a negotiated […]
A photo released by the Israeli air force, showing fighter jets taking part in Operation “Rising Lion,” which targeted nuclear sites in Iran for strikes, on June 13, 2025. EYEPRESS NEWS VIA REUTERS CONNECT Two days after launching the June 13 attack on Iran, the Israeli military took control of the air corridor connecting Israel […]
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a state law banning gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender minors – an issue at the heart of the culture wars that have become a dominant feature of American political life. The top court voted 6-3 to uphold a law in the southern state of Tennessee, which bans hormone […]
Gisèle Pelicot arrives at the courthouse in Avignon, southern France, on December 19, 2024. LEWIS JOLY / AP A staged reading of selected fragments of the trial that made Frenchwoman Gisèle Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, a worldwide feminist icon will premiere in Vienna on Wednesday, June 18. […]
UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, in Paris, March 2024. STEPHANE MOUCHMOUCHE/HANS LUCAS VIA AFP Paris’s biggest movie theater, UGC Ciné Cité Les Halles, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year as the world’s cinema with the highest attendance, according to the Comscore institute. Nearly every Parisian has forgotten, but the first UGC multiplex occupies the […]
