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Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) broke with the Democratic Party and condemned the anti-ICE riots that broke out in Los Angeles, pointing out that it is “anarchy and true chaos.” In a post on X, Fetterman explained that he “unapologetically” stands for “free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration.” Sen. Fetterman Breaks with Democrats, Condemns L.A. Riots: ‘Anarchy and True Chaos’ 277 A protester throws a scooter at a police vehical near the metropolitan detention center ofAP Photo/Jae C. Hong Elizabeth Weibel9 Jun 2025310 2:34 Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) broke with the Democratic Party and condemned the anti-ICE riots that broke out...

YIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday, in which at least three people were killed and many others injured, was described by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “brutal.” According to authorities, a barrage of multiple rockets struck apartment buildings and a medical facility in the center of the northeastern city a day after direct peace talks made no progress on ending the 3-year war. Zelenskyy said one of the rockets fired at Sumy pierced the wall of an apartment building but failed to detonate.

ROME — Pope Francis has condemned what he described as the “massacre” of 153 women and children in Gaza, insisting the victims were “innocent.” Following his Angelus prayer on the Feast of All Saints, the pontiff remembered “all the peoples who are suffering because of war,” adding that “war is always a defeat, always!” War is “ignoble,” he continued, “because it is the triumph of the lie, of falsehood: one seeks the greatest interest for oneself and the greatest damage for the adversary, trampling on human lives, the environment, the infrastructure, everything; and all disguised with lies.”

President Joe Biden issued a statement on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday in which he warned that “Holocaust deniers and minimizers are growing louder in our public discourse.”

Downing Street condemns cartoon protestors (Filed: 06/02/2006) Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, has promised that the Government will support any action by police against the demonstrators involved in protests outside the Danish embassy last week. Omar Khayam apologised for causing offence In an emergency Commons statement, Mr Clarke said the police and prosecuting authorities were carrying out "rigorous assessments" about the appropriate way to proceed in individual cases. "If the police conclude there have been breaches of the law and decide to take any action, we would, of course, support them," he told MPs It came after Downing Street condemned...

Laura Bush condemns Democrat 'witch-hunt' By David Rennie in Washington (Filed: 20/02/2004) Laura Bush shed her cosy, non-partisan public image to accuse Democratic chiefs of a "witch-hunt" against her husband, President George W Bush, in interviews released yesterday. Mrs Bush, whose image as a traditional wife and mother has earned her sky-high personal approval ratings, launched a passionate defence of her husband, who has been under withering Democratic fire over unemployment, Iraq and his Vietnam-era military record. Laura Bush: speaking out in defence of her husband "I think it's a political, you know, witch-hunt, actually, on the part of the...

EU condemns Israeli attack on Syria Associated Press Monday October 6, 2003 The European Union today condemned an Israeli attack on an alleged terrorist training camp in Syria as "unacceptable", with the EU's foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, suggesting the strike was a violation of international law. An EU spokeswoman called for calm on all sides following "a very distressing weekend" of violence in the Middle East. Israeli jets bombed what it claimed was a terrorist training base near Damascus yesterday, the first Israeli strike deep inside Syrian territory in three decades. The attack was made in response to Saturday's...

US publicly condemns Hamas, but privately rails at IsraelColin Powell tells Palestinian Authority to rein-in Hamas and Israel to cease assassination attempts By Justin Huggler in Jerusalem and Sa'id Ghazali in Jericho 21 June 2003 Colin Powell told Palestinian leaders yesterday to take on the militant group Hamas and urged Israel to pull out of the Gaza Strip and curb assassinations of Palestinian militants. General Powell, the US Secretary of State, was here to try to rescue the road-map peace plan personally backed by President George Bush, which calls for an independent Palestinian state by 2005. Hopes at the Aqaba...

Dissident ayatollah condemns leaders By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor (Filed: 01/02/2003) Days after being freed from five years of house arrest, Iran's most senior dissident cleric yesterday denounced Teheran's religious rulers as a dictatorship no different from the reviled former shah. The comments by Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri might be a sign that he could become a major force for reform. As the 81-year-old greeted well-wishers to his home in the holy city of Qom, 80 miles south-west of Teheran, hardliners issued a call for the government to take action to ensure that his home "will not be...