“The problem with democracy and its presidential elections is that you never know who is going to win,” goes a Russian saying, which reportedly captures what Russian President Boris Yeltsin once told President Bill Clinton. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the decision to run for re-election in 2024, according to…

Shelling is ramping up Thursday between the Israel Defense Forces and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah as both sides trade strikes along the Israel-Lebanon border, a report says. The Iranian-backed terrorist group claimed in several statements that it has struck eight targets so far in Israel Thursday, including Israeli soldiers and a…

Iran has executed over 100 people since the Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7 drew the world’s attention to Israel and the Gaza Strip, with one report referring to Tehran’s “execution spree.” “On Wednesday, November 15, 2023, as the United Nations General Assembly’s Third Committee was considering a resolution condemning the…

Kenya’s High Court on Thursday extended a block on the deployment of 1,000 police officers to Haiti, which is part of a multinational effort to combat gang violence in the Caribbean nation.The High Court previously blocked the proposed deployment in October.Haiti’s gang violence epidemic has made international headlines, with organized…

White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggested Thursday that it’s unlikely that the ideology of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas can be eradicated by Israel’s military operations.Kirby spoke a day after President Biden said he thinks Israel’s military operation in Gaza will stop when Hamas “no longer maintains the…

The Louvre Museum has acquired a $26 million painting from the 13th century four years after the work of art was discovered hanging on the wall of an elderly woman’s kitchen in France.The Louvre announced the acquisition of the masterpiece titled “Christ Mocked,” which is attributed to the Italian painter Cimabue,…

A human rights activist in Belarus on Thursday began a hunger strike inside prison in the latest protest against the repressive government of Alexander Lukashenko, a rights organization said.The Belarusian human rights organization Viasna said Aliaksandar Vaitseshyk went on hunger strike in the city of Baranavichy, in western Belarus, after…

A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday.The body of news photographer Ismael Villagómez was found in the driver’s seat of a car just after midnight Thursday in Ciudad Juárez,…

Five European countries and Canada are looking to join a genocide case brought against the Burmese government by the Gambia.Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. filed a “declaration of intervention in the case,” the International Court of Justice reported Thursday.The Gambia first brought the case in 2019,…

A Russian soldier recently returned from fighting in Ukraine went to teach schoolchildren about Russia’s military campaign there before later beating up his neighbors, Russian news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on its Telegram channel. It is the latest report of a fighter from Ukraine returning to commit acts of violence…