September 17, 2026

The Kennedy Center board has voted to close the performing arts centre for two years, just as a US judge blocked it from adding President Donald Trump’s name back to the building, BBC reports.   In May, the same judge ordered the removal of Trump’s name and blocked its temporary closure for proposed renovations.  …

Russia’s war against Ukraine is moving ever closer to the border with Poland, DW reports.   After a drone attack by Russia destroyed a gas station and the locomotive of a passenger train near the Dorohusk-Yahodyn border crossing between Poland and Ukraine early Sunday, Warsaw has demonstrated its determination in the face of the immediate…