Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been freed as part of the biggest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Paul Whelan, a former US marine, as well as prominent Russian opposition politicians and activists who had been jailed for criticising the full-scale invasion of…
NewsFeed Video released by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) shows prisoners being loaded onto a waiting plane for transport to Turkey as part of a massive prisoner swap. They were later split amongst a small fleet of private planes to take them to their respective countries. Published On 1 Aug…
For Mason, the trouble started in 2016. A mother of three, she had recently been released from custody after serving a sentence for felony tax fraud. It was a big year at the ballot box, with the presidency up for grabs as well as control of Congress, and Mason said…
NewsFeed US President Joe Biden gathered with family members of prisoners just freed in one of the largest prisoner swaps between Russia and Western countries. The swap included around two dozen prisoners in multiple countries. Published On 1 Aug 20241 Aug 2024 Check out our Latest News and Follow us…
US presidential candidate Donald Trump has stirred a new racial controversy after asserting that Vice President Kamala Harris turned to her Black identity recently out of political expediency. Speaking at a convention of Black journalists in Chicago on Wednesday, the former president claimed that Harris, the first Black woman and…
Countries of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have condemned the assassination of Hamas’s political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and called for stepped-up diplomatic efforts to prevent an all-out war in the Middle East. The UNSC’s emergency meeting on Wednesday came as Iran and Hamas – the Palestinian group…
Speaking on Monday, two days after Israel blamed Lebanon’s Hezbollah for the attack that killed 12 people in the occupied Golan Heights, White House official John Kirby reiterated US support for Israel, but emphasised that Washington still wanted regional de-escalation. “We believe that there is still time and space for…
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI is on track to be the most used AI assistant worldwide by the year’s end. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has reported a higher-than-expected profit of $13.5bn for the most recent quarter, sending its shares nearly 7 percent higher. Revenue in…
Simone Biles could claim her ninth Olympic medal in Thursday’s all-around final two days after leading the USA women’s team to a gymnastics team gold in Paris. Biles is the big favourite coming into the event after qualifying for the final by a healthy margin, and the drama may centre…
Qatar, Egypt and the US have been key mediators in talks between Israel and Hamas to end the war in Gaza. Qatar and Egypt, key players in the ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas, have questioned the future of negotiations following the Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh’s assassination. Haniyeh was…
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