IAEA to visit Zaporizhzhia power plant in September says Russian official

Zaporizhzhia power plant

IAEA delegation may be able to visit Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in early September. Russia and Ukraine are standing on opposite poles of and arrangemnts for the visit. Ulyanov said that mission of the organization earlier being shared with the head of IAEA. Russia’s representative in Vienna, where the IAEA is based, a delegation from … Read more

US and Taiwan initiate official trade talks

US and Taiwan

The first round of talks is expected to begin in “early fall”. They will discuss trade facilitation, digital trade, and anti-corruption standards. Relations between the U.S. and China have become increasingly tense over the past year. The United States has announced that formal trade negotiations with Taiwan will begin soon, following a contentious visit by US House … Read more

Trump Organization’s chief pleads guilty to tax crimes

Trump Organization

Allen Weisselberg was charged with concealing more than $1.7 million (£1.4 million) in off-the-books income. He is expected to be sentenced to five months in Rikers Island prison and ordered to repay the money owed. He will be sentenced at the conclusion of The Trump Organization trial.   In a New York court, Donald Trump’s … Read more

Algeria forest fires death toll rises to 38, officials say

Algeria forest fires

At least 38 people have died in forest fires ravaging northern Algeria. Interior minister says at least 200 others have suffered burns and respiratory issues. Last year’s fires killed at least 90 people and destroyed more than 100,000 hectares of forest.   At least 38 people have died and dozens more have been injured in … Read more

Grand jury indicts Salman Rushdie attacker Hadi Matar

Salman Rushdie attacker Hadi Matar

Hadi Matar, 24, is scheduled to appear in court in Chautauqua County on the charges this afternoon. Matar was arrested on August 12 after allegedly stabbing Rushdie multiple times. Rushdie was hospitalized with serious injuries, including a damaged liver and severed nerves in an arm.   A grand jury has indicted a New Jersey man … Read more

New Zealand auction finds child remains in suitcases

New Zealand child remains

A New Zealand family discovered the bodies of two children hidden in suitcases in a batch of abandoned goods purchased at a storage unit auction. The children, aged five to ten, had been dead for several years. Police are attempting to determine their identities as part of an investigation that may have international ramifications.   … Read more

Ethiopia condemns the WHO chief’s remarks on Tigray “unethical.”

Ethiopia condemns WHO

Ethiopia’s government has called the WHO director-statement general’s comments “unbecoming of such a high-profile position”.  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is ethnically Tigrayan. The 6 million people in Tigray have been “under siege” for the last 21 months.   Ethiopia’s government has called the World Health Organization’s director-statement general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region … Read more

Joe Biden called Liz Cheney after she lost her primary election

Joe Biden

Joe Biden called Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday following her primary defeat. Cheney has been the most vocal Republican critic of President Trump since leaving office. She has yet to make an official announcement about a presidential bid.   President Joe Biden called Rep. Liz Cheney, R-WY, following her overwhelming defeat in Tuesday’s Republican primary, … Read more

Finland PM Sanna Marin’s partying video draws criticism; Watch

Finland PM Sanna Marin

Sanna Marin, the world’s youngest prime minister, is seen partying in a leaked video. Opposition parties have called for her to take a voluntary drug test. The video has received widespread coverage in Finnish media.   Sanna Marin, the Finnish prime minister, is facing criticism after being seen partying in a leaked video. She and … Read more

Saudi student Salma al-Shehab jailed for 34 years for tweets

Salma al-Shehab

Leeds University student Salma al-Shehab was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2021. She had called for reforms and the release of activists prior to her arrest. A terrorism tribunal convicted her of assisting dissidents seeking to “disrupt public order” and spreading “false rumours”. Leeds University has expressed deep concern for one of its PhD students, … Read more

UN chief António Guterres “delighted” to be invited to a Ukrainian university

UN chief António Guterres

The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, visited the National University of Lviv in Ukraine. Guterre said he was “delighted” to visit the university. The institution has made important contributions to the Charter of the United Nations.   The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that he was “delighted” to visit the National University of Lviv … Read more

Russia deploys hypersonic missile-armed jets to Kaliningrad says State media

Russia hypersonic missile

Russia has deployed three MiG-31 fighter jets equipped with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles to Kaliningrad. In mid-March, Russia used the missiles for the first time in combat. Kinzal missiles are invisible and invulnerable to any means of enemy air defense and anti-missile defense.   Russia has sent three fighter jets equipped with hypersonic missiles to the … Read more