Headlines- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy issues a warning that the Strait of Hormuz is "closed," citing five tankers that have been hit since Friday.
- Four drones were intercepted and destroyed over the provinces of Riyadh, Eastern, and Southern, according to the coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
- The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen claims to have intercepted three drones in the southern and Riyadh regions, two cruise missiles over the Red Sea, and a ballistic missile headed for the Saudi city of Yanbu. In the
- Police and pritesters clashed during Saturday's large-scale protests across France over social injustice, exorbitant prices, and the condition of the educational system.
- Just two days before the new sanctions and tariffs on Russia mandated by the law named for the late Senator Lindsey Graham were scheduled to go into effect, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday waiving them.
- On Saturday afternoon, a car drove through a soccer match in Wichita, Kansas, killing a child and an adult and injuring numerous others.
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Trump Administration Under Renewed Fire From...
The Trump administration is under renewed fire from environmentalists following its move earlier this week to weaken the Endangered Species Act. At the same time, more than two dozen states and cities as well as a coalition of health and environmental groups are suing the administration over its rollback of the Clean Power Plan, one of President Barack Obama’s signature regulations to reduce the nation’s carbon emissions. White House Correspondent Patsy Widakuswara has more
Israelis and Palestinians Doubt New US...
Israelis and Palestinians are bracing for an expected new peace plan announcement from Washington, which President Donald Trump has called the Deal of the Century. Yet there is deep mistrust on both sides and little hope that a deal can be made. Linda Gradstein reports for VOA from Jerusalem
75 Years after D-Day, Normandy’s US...
On June 6th, heads of state including US President Donald Trump will gather at a beach in northern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion. In this successful but deadly military operation, thousands of American and other allied soldiers lost their lives in the first phase of a final push to liberate France and the continent from German Nazi occupation
75 Years After D-Day, Normandy’s US...
On June 6th, U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders will gather in northern France to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, in which thousands of American & other allied soldiers died trying to liberate France and Europe from Nazi occupation
Kosovo Grain Man Aims for Record...
An artist from Gjakova in Kosovo is aiming to set a new world record with a 560-square-meter mosaic made of grain of United States President Donald Trump
El Paso — Entry for Thousands...
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol continues to face difficulties in processing the large number of undocumented migrants who are entering the U.S. through El Paso, Texas
Trump’s Numerous Declarations of Victory Over...
late 2018, President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw almost all of its troops from Syria, saying the Islamic State terror group had been defeated and there was no longer a reason to deploy U.S. forces in the war-torn nation
Mexican President Creates New Government Style
Lopez Obrador rode a wave of popular discontent with corruption in Mexico, and has attracted a near-unquestioning devotion because of his own honest, rumpled style
US Increasingly Ties Cuba to Venezuela...
U.S. efforts to unseat Venezuelan socialist leader Nicolas Maduro are also aimed at confronting the communist government in Cuba that conservative critics say continues to destabilize its neighbors in Latin America by exporting its failed economic model and fostering political repression
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Condemned...
Otto Warmbier, a 22-year old American college student, was detained in Jan. 2016 for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster from a hotel while he was visiting Pyongyang with a tour group