[ad_1] Celebrating his seizure of Crimea in 2014, President Vladimir V. Putin later called the peninsula an “unsinkable aircraft carrier,” hailing Russia’s return there as a symbol of revanchist ambition. Now the Ukrainian military is hammering Crimea with swarming drone…
[ad_1] For years, the ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X, or SSPX, existed in a kind of Catholic limbo. It was formally outside the Roman Catholic Church, yet tolerated by it. Its priests heard confessions, its communities multiplied and its…
[ad_1] The body of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei lay in state in a vast hall in Tehran on Friday as clerics, officials, foreign dignitaries and other mourners paid their respects to Iran’s late Supreme Leader, killed in a U.S.-Israeli airstrike earlier…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Interpol on Friday named the…
[ad_1] The moment the quake struck the coastal region of Caraballeda, Venezuela. @neracosu via TikTok Any large earthquake can be dangerous, but the residents of Caracas and Venezuelan coastal cities like La Guaira and Catia La Mar were victims of…
[ad_1] Nine months after Hamas and Israel agreed to a hard-fought ceasefire in Gaza, the term has become a cruel irony for the two million Palestinians trapped inside the territory. The situation has become what one analyst described as a…
[ad_1] As the U.S. and Israel-Iran war was raging, Capt. Raman Kapoor was stuck for 2½ months on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf with 23 seafarers begging to go home. “Our families were so scared, the entire crew…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. The U.S. Secret Service did…
[ad_1] Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A former U.S. Olympian was…
[ad_1] When Carmen Luiza Diaz de Cumare heard shouts about a body being pulled from a mountain of crumbled concrete, she scrambled up and around the bent and twisted rebar and over the crevices where an apartment tower once stood…