Oct 19 As Xi prepares for third term as China's head, fellow leaders still to be revealed By Associated Press Xi Jinping is primed to receive a third five-year term as head of China's ruling Communist Party on Sunday. What's unknown is who will join him for the next five years on the party's leading bodies. Continue reading
Oct 19 Iranian athlete who competed without hijab returns to Tehran By Jon Gambrell, Associated Press Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi has returned to Tehran after competing in South Korea without wearing a headscarf. Her move was seized upon by demonstrators as the Islamic Republic has faced weeks of protests over its mandatory hijab. Continue reading
Oct 19 WATCH: State Department says U.S. will back sanctions against Iran over drone sales By Associated Press The Biden administration is backing the European Union as it gathers evidence that Iran is supplying drones to Russia for use its war in Ukraine. The EU is drawing up a list of sanctions in retaliation. Continue reading
Oct 19 North Korea fires more artillery shells into sea as tensions over weapons tests continue By Hyung-Jin Kim, Associated Press North Korea has fired about 100 more artillery shells toward the sea in response to South Korean live-firing drills at border areas as the rivals accuse each other of dialing up tensions with weapons tests. Continue reading
Oct 19 U.K. inflation at 10.1 percent, 40-year high as food prices rise By Danica Kirka, Jill Lawless, Associated Press British food prices rose at the fastest pace since 1980 last month, driving inflation back to a 40-year high and heaping pressure on the embattled government to balance the books without gutting help for the nation's poorest residents. Continue reading
Oct 19 Putin orders martial law in annexed Ukrainian regions; launches mass evacuations By Hanna Arhirova, Sabra Ayres, Associated Press Russian forces have launched mass evacuations of civilians from one of the first major cities they seized in the invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading
Oct 18 Watch 4:46 News Wrap: Workers on strike in France demand pay hike to keep up with inflation In our news wrap Tuesday, tens of thousands walked off their jobs in France striking for pay hikes to keep up with inflation, ongoing protests led by women and girls in Iran spread to a rock climber who did not… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch 9:02 Russia attacks Ukraine's power supply causing widespread blackouts By Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi Russian missile and drone strikes have knocked out nearly one-third of Ukraine's power plants in the last week, leaving people there in the dark and in the cold. Samuel Bendett, a Russia military analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses,… Continue watching
Oct 18 Watch 6:05 Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility By Laura Barrón-López, Henry Brannan, Maea Lenei Buhre U.S. authorities reported that there have been more than two million apprehensions at the southern border in the last year, a record high. Since 2018, photographer Pablo Allison has documented the human stories behind these statistics. Laura Barrón-López talked to… Continue watching
Oct 18 New Swedish prime minister presents a 3-party center-right government By Karl Ritter, Associated Press Incoming Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has vowed to set the country on a new course on immigration, criminal justice and energy policy as he presented a center-right coalition government led by his conservative Moderate Party. Continue reading