US announces $275M in new military aid for Ukraine
FILE – A High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) is fired in an undisclosed location in Ukraine in this image from a social media video uploaded June 24, 2022. The U.S. will soon provide a new military aid package for Ukraine that contains HIMARS ammunition.
Dispute by Iranian ex-president’s allies, ‘interrogator journalist’ sparks firestorm
FILE – Iran’s national flag waves in Tehran, Iran, March 31, 2020.
UN: Situation in Sudan’s North Darfur capital grows more dire by the day
Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref on May 12, 2024, while clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries in the key Darfur town of El Fasher.
Families of Texas school shooting victims sue Meta, Microsoft, gunmaker
FILE – Reggie Daniels pays his respects at a memorial at Robb Elementary School, June 9, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. The 19 fourth-graders and two teachers killed at the school were remembered May 24, 2024, on the second anniversary of the shootings.
UK and Finland to deepen ties in face of ‘Russian aggression’
FILE – Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron delivers a speech during the annual Lord Mayor’s Easter Banquet at Mansion House in London, May 9, 2024
Cannes film follows Egypt feminists on brink of adulthood
US actor Richard Gere filming with his mobile phone the photographers during a photocall for the film “Oh Canada” at the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 18, 2024. (Photo by LOIC VENANCE / AFP)
11 hurt in mass shooting in Savannah, Georgia
This image taken from video provided by WJCL shows police responding to a shooting in Savannah, Ga., May 19, 2024. An argument between two women led to a gunfight that left 11 people hurt, one of five weekend shootings in the city, authorities said.
US envoy discusses ‘potential’ of Israel-Saudi offer with Netanyahu
A Palestinian family relocates with their belongings in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip on May 19, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant Hamas group.
Iran extends search for crashed helicopter carrying president, officials into night
In this photo provided by Moj News Agency, rescue vehicles are seen near the suspected crash site of a helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and other officials, in northwestern Iran, May 19, 2024. (Azin Haghighi/Moj News Agency via AP)
PM shooting hits ‘hostile’ Slovak media hard
Matus Kostolny, editor-in-chief of Slovak newspaper Dennik N, poses during a photo session in downtown Bratislava, Slovakia, on May 18, 2024.