Oct 03 National Zoo's giant pandas to return to China in December, leaving only a handful in America By Ashraf Khalil, Didi Tang, Associated Press The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in December with no public signs the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue. Continue reading
Oct 03 Armenian parliament votes to join ICC, further strains relations with Russia By Avet Demourian, Associated Press The Armenian parliament has voted to join International Criminal Court, which earlier this year indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine. Continue reading
Oct 03 Vatican meeting to address key issues facing the Catholic Church By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press It calls for a “radical inclusion” of LGBTQ+ Catholics and others who have been marginalized by the church, and for new accountability measures to check how bishops exercise their authority to prevent abuses. Continue reading
Oct 03 India orders Canada to remove most of its diplomats from country, official says By Rob Gillies, Associated Press An official says India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, ramping up a confrontation over Canadian accusations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban… Continue reading
Oct 03 WATCH: Hillary Clinton, Kathy Hochul, Larry Hogan speak at inaugural summit of the Institute of Global Politics Watch PBS NewsHour tonight for Geoff Bennet’s conversation with Hillary Clinton on the war in Ukraine, the 2024 presidential contest and more. Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch 3:58 News Wrap: European Union leaders gather in Kyiv pledging support for Ukraine's war effort In our news wrap Monday, European Union leaders gathered in Kyiv and insisted they're still united over supporting Ukraine's war effort, the last of some 100,000 people from Nagorno-Karabakh crossed into Armenia and the Nobel Prize for medicine goes to… Continue watching
Oct 02 Watch 6:31 UN to send international police force to Haiti to combat rising gang violence By Amna Nawaz, Teresa Cebrian Aranda The United Nations Security Council approved sending an international police force, led by Kenya, to Haiti. The U.S. drafted resolution was approved with abstentions from China and Russia and aims to combat rising gang violence in the Caribbean nation. U.S. Continue watching
Oct 02 UN Security Council approves deploying a Kenya-led force to Haiti to fight gangs By Dánica Coto, Associated Press The resolution authorizes the force to deploy for one year, with a review after nine months. It would mark the first time a force is deployed to Haiti since a U.N.-approved mission nearly 20 years ago. Continue reading
Oct 02 WATCH: 3 scientists share Nobel in physics for research on electron movement By David Keyton, Seth Borenstein, John Leicester, Associated Press The award went to French-Swedish physicist Anne L’Huillier, French scientist Pierre Agostini and Hungarian-born Ferenc Krausz for their work with the tiny part of each atom that races around the center and that is fundamental to virtually everything: chemistry, physics,… Continue reading
Oct 02 What to know about a UN vote to send a Kenya-led force curb Haiti gang violence By Dánica Coto, Associated Press The U.N. Security Council is preparing to vote on a resolution to authorize a multinational force to Haiti led by Kenya to help combat violent gangs that have grown incredibly powerful and overwhelmed police. Continue reading