SHANGHAI, May 23 (Reuters) – A gas explosion at Liushenyu coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi province late on Friday killed at least 90 people, making it China’s worst coal mine disaster in over 16 years. Here is a timeline of major coal mining disasters in China: • A mine accident at the Yiluo Mine …
ISTANBUL, May 23 (Reuters) – The Turkish intelligence agency MIT captured 10 suspected Islamic State militants in Syria and brought them back to Turkey, the Anadolu news agency on Saturday cited security sources as saying. • The sources said the suspects caught in the operation, carried out in coordination with Syrian intelligence, were linked to …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – The White House forced U.S. intelligence official Tulsi Gabbard to resign from her post, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Gabbard posted her resignation letter on X on Friday. (Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by David Ljunggren) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters.
COPENHAGEN, May 22 (Reuters) – Denmark’s acting Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen’s attempt to form a centre-right government broke down on Friday, he said, prolonging a post-election stalemate in the Nordic country’s parliament. A March election resulted in a fragmented assembly of 12 parties, with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen resigning after her Social Democrats remained …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Tulsi Gabbard resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence on Friday, saying she needed to leave office as her husband battles cancer. She is the fourth Cabinet member to depart during Trump’s second term, all of them women. In her resignation letter, which she posted on social media, Gabbard said …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that Tulsi Gabbard’s deputy, Aaron Lukas, would become the acting director of national intelligence after she leaves the administration on June 30. “Tulsi has done an incredible job, and we will miss her,” Trump said in a Truth Social post in which he …
May 22 (Reuters) – A lawyer for Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil vowed on Friday to take his case to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court declined to reconsider a ruling that opened the door to President Donald Trump’s administration re-arresting and deporting the pro-Palestinian activist. The Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court …
WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not attend the wedding of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, because he has to stay in Washington for government business. “While I very much wanted to be with my son, Don Jr., and the …
Judge, who was born into slavery on George Washington’s plantation, was 22 years old when she slipped away from the president’s official residence in Philadelphia on May 21, 1796. She hid on a boat that carried her to New Hampshire, where she later married and had three children. May 21st has been officially declared Ona …
By David Shepardson and David Lawder MANASSAS, Virginia, May 22 (Reuters) – U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said on Friday there were no imminent new U.S. tariffs expected to be imposed on semiconductors, but that it was important to protect the sector with duties to facilitate reshoring of chip production. Greer, speaking at a Micron …