British artist David Hockney, considered one of the most influential and defining figures in contemporary art, whose paintings captured the world in brilliant color, has died aged 88, his publicist announced Friday. Describing Hockney as “one of the most important figures in contemporary art in both the 20th and 21st centuries,” the Bolton & Quinn …
New York — Taylor Swift became the youngest woman ever inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night. She’s 36. “It was instinctual. No one taught me how to do it,” she said of songwriting through a raspy voice she attributed to screaming along to the night’s performances and Wednesday night’s historic NBA game …
A Mexican crime reporter was shot dead on Thursday, according to the newspaper that employed him, marking the latest killing in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for the press. Meanwhile, a search continues for another journalist who was abducted from her home in the same region last week. The eastern coastal state of …
TIRANA, June 12 (Reuters) – Former Albanian leader Sali Berisha, now the head of the main opposition party, said on Friday that the United States has lifted a travel ban placed on him in 2021. The U.S. State Department had barred Berisha – a former president and prime minister who steered the Balkan country after …
TAIPEI, June 12 (Reuters) – Somaliland has a right to choose its own relationships and pressure tactics from Beijing and Mogadishu have not succeeded in altering its friendship with Taipei, its top diplomat in Taiwan said on Friday at the opening of a new office. Strategically situated on the Horn of Africa, Somaliland has enjoyed …
Investigators in Washington County, Minnesota, say they’ve identified the human remains found in two Twin Cities lakes more than three decades ago. Denise Elaine Sexton Hartley, the youngest of 15 siblings from St. Paul, disappeared in 1993 at the age of 27. In June of that year, a severed human head was discovered near Bone …
China has arrested an American citizen for alleged espionage, the country’s government confirmed Friday, identifying the man as a political analyst for a policy think tank focused on neighboring Myanmar. U Min Zin, a founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar (ISP-M), has faced “criminal compulsory measures,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian …
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — An Iranian woman is among around two dozens migrants set to arrive Friday in the Central African Republic on a deportation flight from the United States, lawyers said, in the latest example of the Trump administration’s widely criticized deals with African and Latin American nations to take third-country deportees, …
BERLIN, June 12 (Reuters) – The airport in the German city of Hamburg was evacuated on Friday due to a security incident, regional public broadcaster NDR reported, citing police. (Reporting by Thomas Seythal, Editing by Linda Pasquini) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Photos You Should See – June 2026
BANGKOK (AP) — An American scholar who writes about Myanmar and Chinese foreign policy was arrested by Chinese authorities on suspicion of spying, China’s foreign ministry said Friday. The scholar, Min Zin, was suspected of “engaging in espionage activities that endanger China’s national security,” said China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Lin Jian. It is …