Townhall News

• Rescuers recover 26 dead from mudslide in India’s northeast July 2, 2022
  GAUHATI, India (AP) — Fresh rain and falling boulders on Saturday hampered rescuers who have so far pulled out 26 bodies from the debris of a mudslide that wiped out a railroad construction site in India’s northeast, officials said. Rescue work is expected to continue for a couple of days in rugged hilly terrain with […]
• Australians rally against U.S. overturning of key abortion ruling July 2, 2022
  (Attention to offensive language in paragraph 5) MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians joined raucous protests across the country on Saturday against the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of women’s constitutional right to abortion. The Supreme Court last week overturned the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, restoring the ability of individual states to ban abortion. […]
• Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now July 2, 2022
  (Reuters) – Powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Saturday, the mayor said, a day after authorities said at least 21 people were killed when Russian missiles struck an apartment building near the Black Sea port of Odesa. FIGHTING * Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters: “I would like to remind you […]