Author: Olivia Carter
President Trump, pictured in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, on Oct. 13, is headed to Asia for an almost weeklong journey to fulfill with regional leaders. Yoan Valat/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Photographs conceal caption toggle caption Yoan Valat/Pool/AFP by way of Getty Photographs President Trump is headed to Asia for an almost week-long journey that’s scheduled to incorporate a high-stakes assembly with Chinese language chief Xi Jinping on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Korea. The journey may even embrace visits to Malaysia and Japan; Trump is anticipated to fulfill with leaders of these international locations, as properly. Trump’s go…
Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks throughout a roundtable on felony cartels with President Trump within the State Eating Room of the White Home on Thursday. Evan Vucci/AP disguise caption toggle caption Evan Vucci/AP WASHINGTON — The U.S. army is sending an plane provider to the waters off South America, the Pentagon introduced Friday, within the newest escalation of army firepower in a area the place the Trump administration has unleashed extra fast strikes in current days in opposition to boats it accuses of carrying medicine. Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the united statesGerald R. Ford and its strike group to…
A youth orchestra within the Kyiv area composes a symphonic poem, re-creating the sound of wartime nights in Ukraine.
With some training and coaching, a girl in Uganda defies cultural norms and begins up her personal espresso enterprise. However she ruffled feathers within the course of by buying espresso beans solely from ladies farmers.
NPR’s Adrian Florido talks with ambassador James B. Story, a former high diplomat to Venezuela, in regards to the rising tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, and what President Trump’s objectives is perhaps.
Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan occasion activists run from police throughout a protest in help of Palestinians, in Muridke, Pakistan, on Oct. 13. Arif Ali/AFP through Getty Photos disguise caption toggle caption Arif Ali/AFP through Getty Photos ISLAMABAD — Pakistan banned a hard-line Islamist occasion on Thursday, greater than per week after heated clashes with police that left a minimum of 5 folks useless. The ban follows a march by the occasion, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), earlier this month from the japanese metropolis of Lahore to the capital metropolis, Islamabad. It escalated right into a vicious avenue battle between TLP supporters and police in…
Colombian President Gustavo Petro addresses supporters throughout a rally in Ibague, Colombia, Oct. 3. Fernando Vergara/AP cover caption toggle caption Fernando Vergara/AP WASHINGTON — The Trump administration imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, his household and a member of his authorities over accusations of involvement within the world drug commerce, sharply escalating tensions with the leftist chief of one of many closest U.S. allies in South America. The Treasury Division leveled the penalties in opposition to Petro; his spouse, Veronica del Socorro Alcocer Garcia; his son, Nicolas Fernando Petro Burgos; and Colombian Inside Minister Armando Alberto Benedetti. Petro…
Espresso crops are seen on the Brazilian Agricultural Analysis Company experimental farm in Brazil in 2022. Espresso manufacturing in Brazil is resulting in deforestation, a nonprofit group says. Evaristo Sa/AFP through Getty Photographs disguise caption toggle caption Evaristo Sa/AFP through Getty Photographs Because the world’s thirst for espresso reveals no indicators of slowing down, broadly used practices to ramp up the crop’s manufacturing have change into self-defeating, in accordance with a nonprofit watchdog group. In Brazil, the world’s greatest espresso producer, espresso farming is driving deforestation — and that, in flip, makes espresso tougher to develop. Greater than 1,200 sq.…
Argentine President Javier Milei waves to supporters upon arriving at a resort in Rosario, Argentina, Thursday. Rodrigo Abd/AP conceal caption toggle caption Rodrigo Abd/AP BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The stakes have been at all times excessive for Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, on this weekend’s midterm elections. However now, with a foreign money disaster deepening and a controversial U.S. bailout on the way in which, the eccentric economist-turned-politician has greater than political posturing driving on Sunday’s vote. The elections — which can renew half the decrease home and a 3rd of the Senate — are an important check for a…
Two-to-three thousand troopers from Napoleon’s military have been present in a mass grave within the northern suburbs of Vilnius, Lithuania in 2001. Michel Signoli / UMR 6578 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS conceal caption toggle caption Michel Signoli / UMR 6578 Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, EFS By 1812, Napoleon was all highly effective. Practically all of Europe was below his management. He had succeeded in forbidding many of the continent from buying and selling with Britain in an effort to deliver the island nation to heel. And he was married to Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor of Austria, a significant superpower…