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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that 100,000 people were trapped in the city of Mariupol, which has faced relentless attacks from Russian forces, Axios reported. During a televised address, Zelenskyy said people in the city were completely blockaded by Russia’s military and were enduring…
Read More Zelenskyy Says 100,000 Stuck In Besieged City With “No Food, No Water”
Kendall Tietz Despite promises that schools would stay open for young girls in Afghanistan, the Taliban will not allow females to go to school past the sixth grade for the time being, according to a decision made late Tuesday night, Waheedullah Hashmi, external relations and…
Read More Taliban Won’t Allow Girls To Go Past 6th Grade, Breaks Promise To US, International Community
U.S. Sen. Rick Scott is among several Senate Republicans urging the Biden administration to allow the transfer of fighter jets to Ukraine. Scott signed on to a resolution, authored last week by Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, that advocates for the shipment of MiG-29…
Read More US Sen. Scott: Biden’s Refusal To Ship Planes To Ukraine Is “Heartless And Unreasonable”
Sebastian Hughes Up to 1,300 people remain trapped in a makeshift bomb shelter beneath a theater in Mariupol, according to Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmyla Denisova. Approximately 130 people have been rescued from the theater, which was struck by Russia on Wednesday, according to Ukrainian officials, The…
Read More Over 1,000 People Reportedly Trapped Alive Under Ukrainian Theater
Harold Hutchison Since the February invasion of Ukraine, a number of American companies announced they were suspending operations and pulling out of Russia, but one business says exiting the country is far from straightforward. “There have been a lot of media reports about brands continuing…
Read More Burger King Parent Company Says Cutting Business Ties With Russia Isn’t So Simple
Sebastian Hughes Two British-Iranians who spent years detained in Iranian custody have been allowed to return to the United Kingdom amid reports a new nuclear agreement could soon come to fruition, Reuters reported. Aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 and charged with plotting…
Read More Iran Frees Detained British Nationals As Potential Iran Nuclear Deal Resurrection Looms
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, the actor-turned-wartime leader’s latest video stop as he employs the West’s great legislative bodies as a global stage to orchestrate support against Russia’s crushing invasion. Zelenskyy’s live-streamed address into the U.S. Capitol will be among the most important…
Read More WATCH LIVE: Zelenskyy To Deliver Virtual Address To U.S. Congress
Thomas Catenacci Part of a key pipeline transporting natural gas from Russia to Europe suddenly reversed its flow direction Tuesday, Reuters reported. Flows in the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which sends natural gas to Germany via Poland, were recorded going eastward away from Europe on Tuesday morning,…
Read More Russia Reverses Gas Flow Via Key Pipeline Serving Europe
FOX News cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski was tragically killed in Ukraine, Fox News reported and said in a media brief. In a letter to employees Tuesday, CEO of FOX News, Suzanne Scott said, “It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we share the…
Read More FOX News Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski Shot And Killed In Ukraine
If this is all you have to worry about, you are doing ok. A Russian man chained himself to a McDonald’s location in Moscow in protest to keep the location open amid nationwide closures related to the country’s invasion of Ukraine. “You know, I’ll find…
Read More “I’ll Feel Miserable” Russian Man Chains Himself To McDonald’s “They Have No Right To Close”