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World A Turkish court jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Sunday pending trial on corruption charges, in a move that has sparked large protests. Rival of Turkey’s president says corruption investigators will be held accountableThomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 22, 2025 10:01 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 23 RiotContinue Reading

World Israeli artillery and airstrikes hit south Lebanon on Saturday after Israel said it had intercepted rockets fired from across the border, endangering a shaky truce that ended a year-long war between Israel and the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. Lebanese militant group says it is committed to ceasefire with IsraelThomsonContinue Reading

World Dr. Sergio Alfieri, medical director of Rome’s Gemelli hospital, said Francis will require at least two months of rest and rehabilitation as he continues recovering at the Vatican. Pontiff’s health worsened after Feb. 14 hospitalization for bronchitisThe Associated Press · Posted: Mar 22, 2025 1:22 PM EDT | LastContinue Reading

The limits of U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand of extremely personalized, belligerent diplomacy have never been more apparent than with the negligible outcomes this week involving two of the world’s deadliest ongoing conflicts. In Gaza, Israel’s military shattered the tenuous ceasefire on Tuesday by inflicting the largest number of deaths in a singleContinue Reading

World Oleg Gordievsky, a high-ranking KGB officer who spied for the West during the height of the Cold War, has died in England at the age of 86. U.K.-based Soviet agent helped change the course of the Cold War Geoff Nixon · CBC News · Posted: Mar 22, 2025 10:13 AMContinue Reading

World U.S. President Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with his suggestion that American interests could somehow take control of Ukraine’s largest nuclear power station, which has been occupied by Russian forces for the past three years. Russia has held the Zaporizhzhia plant for years, even though it doesn’t workThomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 22,Continue Reading

World Against the backdrop of Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics are preparing to exit the Ottawa Treaty, the landmark agreement that saw 164 countries destroy their arsenals of landmines and ban future use. Established nearly 3 decades ago, agreement saw 164 countries destroy arsenals of anti-personnelContinue Reading

World American George Foreman, one of the great second acts in sports who reclaimed the heavyweight boxing title after coming out of retirement and later became a celebrated product pitchman, died on Friday at age 76, his family said. Foreman saw success in the boxing ring and later as aContinue Reading

World Columbia University agreed Friday to put its Middle East studies department under new supervision and overhaul its rules for protests and student discipline, acquiescing to an extraordinary ultimatum by the Trump administration to implement those and other changes or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding. School toContinue Reading