New House speaker passes first test: Avoid shutdown | View caption Hide caption The Senate is expected to pass the stopgap funding measure – known as a continuing resolution, or CR – well before the Friday night deadline. The measure would extend funding for some parts of the government until Jan. 19, 2024, and the rest until Feb. 2.…
First Look Why is Finland closing crossing points along its Russia border? Finnish authorities say that Russia has started allowing undocumented travelers to access the border zone and enter crossing stations between the two countries. To curb this influx, four crossing points on its border will be closed Friday. | View caption Hide caption | Finland will…
In a dramatic seven-hour ordeal, authorities in Ladispoli, , launched a massive operation involving Carabinieri, municipal police, regular police, and financial police to capture a lion on the loose. Three veterinarians armed with rifles loaded with tranquilliser darts also joined the effort. The pursuit began around 3pm in a cane thicket between Viale Mediterraneo and…
First Look Macron on Israel-Hamas war: Fighting terrorism has to have rules French President Emmanuel Macron opened a Gaza aid conference Thursday, reiterating calls for a pause in Israel’s operations against Hamas and addressing the Palestinian enclave’s growing needs for food, water, health supplies, electricity, and fuel. | View caption Hide caption | French President…
Transformation Europe For victorious Polish democrats, restoring democracy is top challenge | View caption Hide caption Autocrats can be beaten at the polls, Poland’s recent elections showed. But the longer they have been in power, the harder it is to restore democratic rule. But it matters, and not only for Poles. It has implications for…
When Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose called into a local radio show this month, the host grilled the Republican Senate hopeful over his past disdain for former President Donald Trump — like how he positioned himself as “Never Trump” before the 2016 election and how he described Trump’s 2019 social media tirade against Black…
First Look Poland freed itself from communism. Now it’s fighting for democracy. Sunday’s elections in Poland may be the most important since 1989, when the nation threw off communist rule. Those activists who once fought communism are now divided – and many are worried that Polish democracy is at stake. | View caption Hide caption…
Justice Europe With one video, Russia’s Chechnya problem seizes the spotlight again | View caption Hide caption In theory, Russian law applies everywhere within Russia’s borders. But over and over, the Chechen republic proves exempt from those rules, no matter how blatant a violation might be. Russia’s military devastated and pacified Chechnya, and the Russian…
NEW DELHI — Indian police raided the offices of a news website that is under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, in what critics described as an attack on one of India’s few remaining independent news outlets. The raids came months after Indian authorities searched…