Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss if and how soon Russia could invade Ukraine, if there are any signs of de-escalation, and how the White House is responding.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday his government would continue to prosecute civilians in military tribunals even after the country's top court banned the practice, ruling it unconstitutional. In a majority decision on Friday, the east African country's Supreme Court banned prosecutions of civilians in military courts and ordered all ongoing cases there to be transferred to civil courts. The ruling was hailed by key opposition figure Kizza Besigye's lawyer as offering him some relief during an ongoing trial by the country's general court martial.
Keith Siegel, a 65-year-old dual U.S.-Israeli national, is the first American to be released since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire took effect.
Russia said on Saturday it had captured a village flanking the eastern flashpoint city of Toretsk in Ukraine, while Kyiv said eight people had died in Russian attacks overnight.Overnight, at least eight people died in Russian strikes on central and eastern Ukraine.
Freed Palestinian inmates were greeted by a cheering crowd in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah Saturday, after Hamas released three Israeli hostages from the Gaza Strip in the fourth exchange under the group's ceasefire deal with Israel.After holding the hostages for more than 15 months, militants in Gaza began releasing them on January 19 under the terms of the ceasefire deal with Israel.
Israel on Saturday released a total of 183 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for three Israeli hostages held in Gaza as the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas continued to gain traction after nearly two weeks. In a sign of progress, Saturday’s release included for the first time some of the 1,000 detainees from Gaza that Israel has agreed to free during Phase 1 of the deal on condition that they did not participate in Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Israel-Hamas war. Detained in Gaza on suspicion of militancy, the 111 Palestinians released Saturday have been held without trial since the day after the Oct. 7 attack.
Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting erratically to certain stimuli.
Alex Matisse grew up in a family of acclaimed artists, but not until he took an after-school pottery class did he discover his own life’s path. Now his East Fork Pottery makes bowls, plates and other stoneware prized by collectors.
President Donald Trump’s offer to most federal employees to resign now and be paid through September stunned the workers who received it — angering some, confusing many and raising questions about whether the offer is even legal.
A clinic in a Thai border town provides mental health care for people fleeing the conflict in Myanmar.
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said infectious diseases get more funding than chronic diseases. Government records suggest the opposite.
Many Black people are finding joy, community, thrills and a bigger sense of the world through activities that were once inaccessible.
On the ground in Panama City ahead of Marco Rubio's first trip as secretary of State.
McDonald's said it will revise a program that awards scholarships to Latino and Hispanic students to eliminate any eligibility criteria based on applicants' race or ethnicity, to settle a lawsuit by a group opposed to affirmative action. American Alliance for Equal Rights, founded by affirmative action foe Edward Blum, filed in federal court in Nashville on Friday to say it had agreed to withdraw a Jan. 12 lawsuit after the fast-food chain said it would alter its program. Since its launch in 1985, McDonald's says the HACER National Scholarships Program has awarded more than $33 million in college scholarships to more than 17,000 students.
A regional jet departed Kansas and headed to one of the country’s most congested and complicated flight approaches, just south of the brightly illuminated marble monuments of Washington, DC. The journey ended as the deadliest US aviation disaster in nearly a quarter century.
An Italian navy ship on Saturday took migrants to Italy from asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome. It was the third failed attempt by Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government to process migrants in the non-EU country. A coast guard ship took 43 migrants from the port of Shengjin, 66 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of the capital, Tirana.
Germany's former president Horst Koehler, who served as head of state from 2004 to 2010 and was a strong backer of Africa, died on Saturday aged 81 after a brief illness. He became Germany's head of state, a mostly ceremonial role, after being put forward by then opposition leader Angela Merkel, who went on to become chancellor.
Uganda's president condemned on Saturday a Supreme Court ruling that civilians cannot be tried in military court, while the army said it would continue court martialling ex-presidential candidate Kizza Besigye."I was sorry to hear of the wrong decision by the supreme court", President Yoweri Museveni said on X on Saturday.
Horst Koehler, former German president from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal presidential office said in a statement. Born in 1943 in German-occupied Poland, Koehler spent most of his early years living in refugee camps with his family before settling in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wuerttemberg. A trained economist and member of the Christian Democrats, Koehler rose to the position of deputy finance minister under ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl, playing a key role in bringing the West German mark to East Germany after communist rule collapsed in 1990.
"People are afraid to write emails, because all the work is stopped."
The Trump Administration took down parts of some government websites.
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