By Michael Gryboski, Editor Sunday, January 19, 2025 Fifth Street Baptist Church of Richmond, Virginia, holds a march in January 2024 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. | Max Williams of Max Photography Churches across the United States will be holding events and volunteer service opportunities to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, … Read more
Croatian President Zoran Milanović looks to have won a commanding victory in the runoff round of his country’s presidential election Sunday, according to exit polls. Milanović remains Croatia’s most popular politician, his history of pro-Moscow and anti-Western statements contrasting with his having overseen the nation’s 2013 accession to the European Union as its then-prime minister. He … Read more
Today is Sunday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2025. There are 353 days left in the year. Today in history: On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that the Haitian government estimated killed some 300,000 people. Also on this date: In 1915, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, … Read more
The two developments are viewed as a direct challenge to the delicate geopolitical balance that Serbia’s Vučić has spent more than a decade crafting, whereby he has signaled approval of Western values and EU policies while also maintaining strong ties with Russia and China. “We love Moscow and Washington, and everyone in the world, but … Read more
“If you had told me 10 years ago that I’d be interviewing about Greenland, I would not have put that high up on my list of possible topics the media would be interested in,” says historian John C. Mitcham of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. “But it is also really fascinating, somewhat troubling too, that we’re … Read more
The assurances came after Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, from the opposition Law and Justice party, this week asked the government to allow Netanyahu to attend the event. Duda wrote to Tusk’s government requesting Netanyahu not be arrested if he sets foot on Polish soil to attend the commemoration, which will take place on Jan. 27, … Read more
Teatime or seaside favourite, fish and chips used to be served in newspaper wrapping, but have you ever wondered why? These days plain white paper wrapping is used by chip shops due to the original practice being deemed unsafe. Matthew, a member of staff from Sankey’s Seafood Restaurant in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, has taken to … Read more
Jean-Marie Le Pen, the longtime face of the far right in France notorious for his hate speech and Holocaust denial convictions, has died, his family told French newswire AFP. He was 96 years old. Le Pen had an extraordinary life and career — as a soldier, a far-right parliamentarian, a small publisher of military music and erotic … Read more
The Damascus med-school dropout has also had somewhat of a sartorial makeover in recent years, swapping the Osama bin Laden-look for a neatly trimmed beard and green fatigues à la Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or corporate blazers and chinos. “A person in their twenties will have a different personality than someone in their thirties or … Read more
Nothing, of course, was done with the papers I gave him. Determined that the story be told but unable to get it past my cautious editors, I decided to write a book about it. Before the book could be published, however, the file was released on the internet a few months ahead of Slovakia’s March … Read more
