Day: May 3, 2024

Kremlin spox slams French president, UK foreign secretary, calling criticisms of war in Ukraine ‘dangerous’

1:50 pm May 3, 2024

Recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are “dangerous” and will deepen international tension around the conflict, the Kremlin’s spokesman said Friday. French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview published Thursday, repeated an earlier comment that he doesn’t exclude sending troops to Ukraine. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron, […]

Priscilla Presley’s son details how mom helped him through horrific drug addiction

1:41 pm May 3, 2024

Priscilla Presley’s son, Navarone Garcia, credits his mother for helping him conquer his battle with substance abuse. Garcia – whom Elvis Presley’s widow welcomed with computer engineer Marco Garibaldi in 1987 – recently opened up to Entertainment Tonight about his decades-long drug problem and how he is now on the mend. Garcia, 37, spoke to […]

Cambodia’s Supreme Court upholds prison sentence for labor union leader in strike

1:36 pm May 3, 2024

Cambodia’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino. Chhim Sithar, president of the Labor Rights Supported Union of Khmer Employees of NagaWorld, had originally been convicted in May 2023 of incitement to commit a felony. She had been […]

Russia targets dissenters abroad, even in countries once thought safe, experts say

1:10 pm May 3, 2024

The military defector was killed in a hail of gunfire and then run over by a car in Spain. The opposition figure was struck repeatedly with a hammer in Lithuania. The journalist fell ill from a suspected poisoning in Germany. Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks and harassment of Russians — […]

US, Australia, Japan and Philippines vow to deepen defense cooperation amid South China Sea tensions

1:08 pm May 3, 2024

Defense chiefs from the U.S., Australia, Japan and the Philippines vowed to deepen their cooperation as they gathered Thursday in Hawaii for their second-ever joint meeting amid concerns about China’s operations in the South China Sea. The meeting came after the four countries last month held their first joint naval exercises in the South China […]