Pop superstar Taylor Swift and American football player Travis Kelce are holding their wedding at New York’s Madison Square Garden (MSG) on Friday. Swift is a 14-time Grammy winner, while Kelce has won 3 Super Bowls for the Kansas City Chiefs.Image: Ashley Landis/AP Photo/dpa/Picture Alliance On Friday, a spokesperson confirmed to news agencies that the … Read more
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz highlighted German defense spending efforts in a meeting in Berlin with Baltic leaders on Friday, on the heels of fresh criticism from US President Donald Trump on the issue. Merz on German defense spending: ‘We have no reason to be shy’ “Germany is doubling its defense budget within four years. This … Read more
Pope Leo XIV defended the country’s history of immigrants to the United States in an event ahead of the country’s 250th birthday. On July 4, America will celebrate the day in 1776 when the United States ratified its Declaration of Independence from Britain. What did Pope Leo say? Speaking via video from the Vatican at … Read more
In tonight’s edition, Ebola is spreading beyond its original hotspot in the DRC as a new case has been detected nearly 600 kilometers away. And another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan around the besieged city of al-Obeid, the UN says. Source link
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A recovery mission to save NASA’s Swift Observatory telescope was launched Friday, with the three-armed spacecraft successfully reentering orbit from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. The Swift telescope satellite weighs 1.6 tons (1.4 metric tons) and is orbiting 224 miles (360 kilometers) above Earth. US defense contractor Northrop Grumman launched Catalyst Space Technologies’ … Read more
The round of 16 World Cup match between England and Mexico could be moved forward to noon local time on Sunday due to a risk of storms and flooding near Mexico City’s Aztecaon stadium, local media reported. Fifa has yet to confirm the time change. Source link
Three people were identified on Friday in the 2019 murder of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee. McKee, 29, died while reporting on a clash between police and the Irish Republican Army splinter group the New IRA. These clashes took place in Londonderry, also known as Derry. The prime ministers of Britain and Ireland and political … Read more
Iranian officials and international dignitaries paid their respects to Iran’s former leader Ali Khamenei on Friday as he lay in state in Tehran. Meanwhile mourners gathered outside the vast Grand Mosalla religious complex where his casket is on display, ahead of its opening to the public on Saturday morning. Source link
Gavin Lee is pleased to welcome Jan Pospisil, Sudan Affairs Analyst at the Peace and Conflict Resolution Evidence Platform. He says the siege has been going on for almost a year, and the RSF seems committed to seizing el-Obeid. While Pospisil explains that Sudan’s civil war is not a proxy war in the literal sense, … Read more