ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Russia President Vladimir Putin is calling the attack on the Kerch Bridge to Crimea a terrorist act carried out by Ukrainian special services. In a meeting Sunday with the chairman of Russia’s Investigative...
October 10, 2022 8:32 am / no comments
LONDON (AP) — Britain and the world said farewell to Queen Elizabeth II with pomp and pageantry. Crowds massed in the streets of London and at Windsor Castle to honor a monarch whose 70-year reign defined an era. The first state funeral since...
September 19, 2022 12:35 pm / no comments
On Saturday a royal official has publicly proclaimed King Charles III as Britain’s new monarch during a ceremony at St. James’s Palace.
David White, the Garter King of Arms, read the proclamation from a balcony at the London royal residence...
September 10, 2022 6:12 am / no comments
LONDON (AP) — Charles, Britain’s new king, was born on Nov. 14, 1948 at the royal estate at Sandringham, first child of then-Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip. In 1969, he was formally invested as the Prince of Wales. He married Lady...
September 8, 2022 2:10 pm / no comments
LONDON (AP Sept. 8, 2022) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, has died. She was 96. Elizabeth spent more than seven decades on the throne as the U.K. rebuilt from war, lost an empire, transformed...
September 8, 2022 12:46 pm / no comments
New York (AP) — Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast journalist best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around him in Baghdad, has died. He...
September 8, 2022 10:40 am / no comments
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Conservative Party has chosen Foreign Secretary Liz Truss as the party’s new leader, and she will take office Tuesday as the U.K.’s new prime minister to steer the country through an acute cost-of-living crisis....
September 5, 2022 9:39 am / no comments
MOSCOW (AP) — Mikhail Gorbachev, who as the last leader of the Soviet Union waged a losing battle to salvage a crumbling empire but produced extraordinary reforms that led to the end of the Cold War, has died at 91. The Central Clinical...
August 30, 2022 5:37 pm / no comments
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister says he suffered a fever while guiding the country to victory over the coronavirus. In a striking speech before thousands of North Koreans, she blamed rival South Korea...
August 11, 2022 6:30 am / no comments
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) (8-7-22) — Ending his most recent COVID-19 isolation, President Joe Biden has left the White House for the first time since becoming infected last month. He’s settling in for a reunion with first lady Jill...
August 7, 2022 10:00 am / no comments