Spencer Platt/Getty Images(UNITED NATIONS) — Russian President Vladimir Putin used his first speech to the United Nations in a decade to publicly support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his forces. “We think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to Read More
Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — More than 150 world leaders will gather in New York Monday for the 70th United Nations General Assembly. Here are the seven major players to watch: 1. CHINESE PRESIDENT XI JINPING Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Read More
TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In a speech before the United Nations Monday, President Obama directly decried “strong states that seek to impose their will on weaker ones,” alluding to Russian support for Syrian President Bashar Read More
Kremlin Press Center/Pool/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will have a sit-down meeting Monday, their first in two years, amid new tensions in recent weeks between the already-adversarial world Read More
GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As world leaders are in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama prepares for meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Cuban President Raul Castro. For Putin’s first visit to the U.S. Read More
NASA/Greg Shirah(NEW YORK) — The red planet has space fans red hot with anticipation. NASA said it will announce Monday that a Mars mystery has been “solved,” but did not say what the mystery was, only that it “detail a major science Read More
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said he is not sure that the U.S. will be able to track all of the Americans who have gone to Syria to help ISIS. “This has long been a concern Read More
PeterHermesFurian/iStock/ThinkStock(NEW YORK) — Seventeen migrants have drowned off the coast of Turkey, reports the BBC. The migrants were en route to Greece when their boat sank. Twenty people on the boat’s deck survived the sinking. The victims are believed Read More
Michael Fitzsimmons/iStock/ThinkStock(PARIS) — The office of the French president says France has launched its first air strikes against the Islamic State, according to the BBC. On Saturday night, French planes hit IS targets during a reconnaissance mission. A Read More
Bill Ingalls/NASA(NEW YORK) — A supermoon lunar eclipse will put on a show Sunday night — marking the first time the spectacle has occurred in more than three decades. A supermoon occurs when a full moon happens when it is at the closest point in its Read More
