U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday (May 22, 2026) he would not attend the wedding of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, because he has to stay in Washington for government business. “While I very much wanted to be…
Pakistan’s powerful army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir arrived in Tehran on Friday (May 22, 2026), with Islamabad mediating as the Islamic Republic examines a new U.S. proposal to end the West Asia war. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei, however, said the visit did not necessarily mean “we have reached a turning point or…
Archival imagery showing what the U.S. Defense Department says are unidentified objects (three dots inside a yellow box), captured during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, was released in the first batch of a series of documents of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) by the U.S. Defense Department on May 8, 2026. Photo: U.S. Department of…
Children play next to tents at the Beirut waterfront, in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 21, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon on Friday (May 22, 2026) killed 10 people, including six paramedics and a Syrian girl, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said, the latest in near-daily attacks from both sides that have not…
U.S. President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard | Photo Credit: Reuters Tulsi Gabbard is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence on Friday (May 22, 2026). The resignation is effective June 30, it said. In her resignation letter, Ms. Gabbard told Mr. Trump she was “deeply grateful…
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks with journalists during a meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Helsingborg, Sweden, on May 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP The United States has seen some progress in talks with Iran and is in constant communication with the Pakistani mediators, but there is more work to be…
U.S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Taiwan hasn’t been notified of any pause in a planned $14 billion U.S. arms sale, a government official said Friday (May 22, 2026), after the acting U.S. Navy Secretary told a Senate committee in Washington that some foreign military sales were being…
North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) European members scrambled on Friday (May 22, 2026) to get clarity from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on troop shifts by Washington, as they sought to placate President Donald Trump’s ire on Iran ahead of a July summit. Mr. Trump left heads spinning as NATO foreign ministers gathered in…
Heavy smoke rises from an industrial area of the MOL petrochemical plant, where an explosion occurred, in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary, May 22, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters An explosion at a petrochemical plant in Hungary on Friday (May 22, 2026) killed one person and injured several others, according to a statement by Hungarian energy company Mol…
The supplies were destined to be distributed to displaced and war-affected people in frontline areas in Ukraine, and deprive people of critical assistance at a time of significant need as forced displacement and evacuations continue from frontline regions, according to UNHCR. File | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations Refugee Agency on Friday (May 22,…