The detained Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been allowed to meet a delegation from the International Federation of the Red Cross, the first confirmed outside contact with her for two and a half years. In photographs of the meeting released by the military government Suu Kyi appeared to be healthy. She was detained
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, in power since 2007, has proposed extending the presidential term for one more year. The government-controlled National Assembly is expected to approve the extension in September. It is part of a constitutional reform proposal that also includes plans to ban opposition members considered by the government to be “traitors” or “coup
The setting is on the Pennsylvania battlefield. What is at stake is control of the House. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries will unveil the party’s Fighting for an Affordable America agenda on Sunday, with the midterm elections 100 days away and working to focus voters’ attention ahead of November. In Pennsylvania’s 7th District, located in
Vanessa Marano, a prolific actress known for her starring and guest roles in numerous notable television series throughout the 2000s, will produce and star in the wedding party horror comedy “Ring Leader.” Marano is producing the film through his American production company Calabrian Rhode, behind the 2022 Netflix original romantic comedy “The Royal Treatment,” which
Hamas is going through one of the most difficult periods in its history. The group, designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States and many other countries, has been severely weakened by the Gaza war, during which many of its senior military and political leaders have been killed, its government structures
One of the most notorious figures in Mexico’s drug cartels, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, will spend the rest of his life in prison, a U.S. judge has ruled, two years after Zambada was lured to the United States in an elaborate sting operation. The 76-year-old, who founded the violent Sinaloa Cartel with Joaquín “El Chapo”