Washington’s premier soiree on Saturday is most identified by its modern form: a red carpet for the capital’s journalism elite, political staffers and an assortment of American business leaders and celebrities — with the leader of the free world and a comedian offering roasts. Some years are forgettable and relegated to C-SPAN archives. Others produce …
MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen for a seventh week in a row to 65.6%, its lowest level since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to state pollster VTsIOM. Russia’s paramount leader, who was appointed acting president by Boris Yeltsin just eight years after the fall …
CHISINAU, April 24 (Reuters) – Moldova’s parliament voted to lift the country’s energy state of emergency from Saturday, which had been imposed after Russian attacks in neighbouring Ukraine knocked out a power line providing most of Moldova’s needs. Moldovan officials have said that Russian attacks in March put out of action the Isaccea-Vulcanesti line, which …
April 24 – Syria’s Interior Ministry said on Friday it had arrested the main suspect in the 2013 Tadamon massacre, one of the worst acts of violence attributed to the former government of Bashar al-Assad, in which 288 civilians were killed. The ministry released footage of Amjad Yousef’s arrest in the Al-Ghab Plain area of …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterFRIDAY, April 24, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The eyes are the windows not only to the soul, but also to a person’s health, a new study says. They found that people had a higher risk of chronic disease if they had advanced aging of their retinas — the light-sensitive layer of …
Washington — Days after the United States opened its military campaign against IranPresident Trump sought to project confidence in the nation’s war footing, declaring that America possessed a “virtually unlimited supply” of key munitions and could fight wars “forever” using them. The remark conveyed a familiar image of American military power, a projection of being …
The top predator prowling the seas during the age of the dinosaurs 100 million years ago may have been the octopus. New analyses of fossilized jaws reveal that massive, kraken-like octopuses once hunted alongside other marine predators. They boasted eight arms and long bodies that extended more than 60 feet, rivaling other carnivorous marine reptiles. …
A prominent member of Hezbollah’s political wing, Lebanese parliamentarian Ali Fayyad, said in a statement on Friday that the three-week extension of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire announced the previous day by President Trump in Washington was “meaningless” in light of continued “hostile acts” by Israel. Fayyad, a longtime member of the Iranian-backed group which is both …
LONDON (AP) — A proposed bill to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives is set to fall Friday as parliamentary time runs out. Though the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was passed by elected lawmakers in the House of Commons last June, the U.K.’s revising …
TOKYO, April 24 (Reuters) – Two forest fires continued to spread toward residential areas in a northern Japanese town on Friday, prompting authorities to expand evacuation orders to more than 3,000 people, with the blazes still uncontained, media reports said. The blaze broke out on Wednesday afternoon in a mountainous area in Iwate Prefecture, followed …