Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro hailed Elon Musk at a rally in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, saying the billionaire has stood up for freedom of expression — which the former president claims is at risk in his country. Musk, whose ownership of social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has provoked widespread controversy, “is a man who […]
The decision by the US House of Representatives to earmark $61 billion in long-delayed aid for Ukraine shows the country will not become “a second Afghanistan,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday. The House on Saturday approved the latest massive package of military and economic assistance for Ukraine as it struggles to hold off Russian forces […]
Japan, the Philippines and the United States voiced “serious concern” Thursday over China’s actions in the South China Sea, the nations’ leaders said, amid a territorial dispute that has become increasingly tense. “We express our serious concerns about the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) dangerous and aggressive behavior in the South China Sea,” according to […]
The United States on Thursday restricted movements of its diplomats in Israel over security fears, the embassy said, as concerns mount of Iranian retaliation over an Israeli strike. “Out of an abundance of caution, US government employees and their family members are restricted from personal travel” outside the Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheeva areas “until […]
O.J. Simpson, the NFL Hall of Famer whose 1995 acquittal in the so-called “trial of the century” for the brutal murders of his ex-wife and a male friend gripped the world, has died, his family announced Thursday. He was 76. “Our father, Orenthal James Simpson, succumbed to his battle with cancer” Wednesday, a message signed […]