
TOPPING OUR NEWS TONIGHT...

Sri Lankan interim leader declares state of emergency
{O/C} {Closer to home} With tensions not simmering down anytime soon, Sri Lanka's interim president has had no choice but to impose a...

Indiana mall shooting kills three
{O/C} {Welcome back} There's been another mass shooting in the United States. {RVO} The shooting happened at the Greenwood Park Mall in...

Biden wraps up Mideast trip with GCC summit
{O/C} On the last day of his trip to the Middle East, U.S. President Joe Biden attended a summit with Arab strongmen in the Gulf...

Deadly Montana highway pileup amid dust storm
{O/C} {In other news} Six people perished in a Montana highway pileup amid a dust storm that made for zero visibility. {RVO}...

Drunk pilot arrested after landing plane on interstate in Missouri
{O/C} Here's a doozy for you. An inebriated pilot was arrested shortly after landing his small aircraft on a Kansas City interstate....

Biden comes under fire for being soft on Saudi Arabia
{O/C} U.S. President Joe Biden is in the firing line after sharing a friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and...

Europe rendered a smouldering wreck under heat waves
{O/C} Wildfires are wreaking havoc in southwestern France and Spain, forcing thousands from their homes as the smothering heat continues...

Biden terms peace between Israel and Palestine pipe dream for now
{O/C} And while touring the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Biden vowed sympathy and financial assistance for the embattled Palestinians....

Bastille Day parade in France
{O/C} France celebrated its annual Bastille Day with an imposing parade under the gaze of French President Emmanuel Macron. {RVO}...

Ivana Trump dies at 73
{O/C} The first wife of former president Donald Trump, Ivana Trump, has passed away at the age of 73. {RVO} Not a rags-to-riches story,...

Biden holds bilateral meeting with Israeli PM
{O/C} U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid met today as they laid their partly differing cards on the table...

Khashoggi's slaying not the main reason for Biden's middle east trip
{O/C} {While in Israel today,} U.S. President Joe Biden was disinclined to broach Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder...

Rajapaksa steps down as interim leader was sworn in
{O/C} To Sri Lanka, where Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the island nation's interim president today. This, until...

Antony Blinken cranks up pressure on Myanmar's military regime
{O/C} Meanwhile, Secretary of State Antony Blinken upbraided ASEAN countries for inadequate pressure on Myanmar's military government,...

South African bar shooting leaves 15 dead
{O/C} And a mass shooting in a bar in Johannesburg's Soweto township overnight has killed 15 and left others critically wounded. {RVO}...

Sri Lanka mired in maelstrom of political unrest
{O/C} To Sri Lanka, where a swarm of protesters occupied the president's official residence, demanding the leaders step down. And the...

Yosemite blaze menaces treasured sequoias
Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMe_a73X8Io {O/C} A merciless conflagration is menacing the iconic sequoias in California's...

Lookback at Shinzo Abe's life
{O/C} Shinzo Abe is best remembered for being a polarising arch-conservative leviathan in Japan. His first stint as prime minister was...

Shinzo Abe dies after shooting
{O/C} {Good evening} Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has passed away at the age of 67 after being assassinated during a...

















