More than nine million veterans are served each year by the Department of Veterans Affairs.... 1812-The Naval Home, a facility for disabled veterans, opens in Philadelphia.... 1833-Congress establishes the Bureau of Pensions to assist veterans....

MOSCOW — Russian authorities have refused to renew the visa of the British Broadcasting Corp.'s veteran Moscow correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, giving her weeks to leave the country, Russian state television reported. Support our journalism.... The Russian journalist was not named. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement “ We regularly made statements asking the British to stop persecuting Russian journalists, ” she wrote.... “ The Western media have traditionally not shown any intere

The special court is investigating war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the conflict. Kosovo-Serbia: Can the EU really broker a peace deal?... The United States and most of the West recognize Kosovo’s independence, but Serbia — supported by its allies Russia and China — doesn't. Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia remain despite EU-brokered talks to normalize relations between Pristina and Belgrade that started in 2011.... Soldiers with a NATO-led peacekeeping mission are currently

Veteran Kashmiri separatist leader and former chief of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference( APHC) Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away on Wednesday, APHC leader Abdul Hameed Lone said.... In a statement, Lone said Geelani died at his home at 10pm.... Meanwhile, Indian authorities imposed a security clampdown in occupied Kashmir after Geelani's death, residents said. Troops put up barbed wire rolls and barricades on roads leading to Geelani's house in the main city of Srinagar after the family ann

ALMATY( Reuters)-Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said on Wednesday he had taken over as head of the powerful Security Council from veteran former leader Nursultan Nazarbayev and promised to respond with" maximum toughness" to fuel price protests.In a televised address, Tokayev said he was immediately assuming the leadership of the Security Council, a role in which Nazarbayev had continued to wield significant influence after unexpectedly stepping down from the presidency in 2019.He

Zambia's veteran opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote.... Hichilema, a 59-year old businessman contesting the presidency for the sixth time, got more than 2.8 million votes to President Edgar Lungu’s 1.8 million votes, achieving one of the biggest electoral wins in Zambia’s history.... Hichilema narrowly lost two previous elections to Lungu in 2015 and 2016....

More than nine million veterans are served each year by the Department of Veterans Affairs.... Timeline 1789-The new US government passes legislation ensuring pensions for disabled Revolutionary War veterans.... 1812-The Naval Home, a facility for disabled veterans, opens in Philadelphia....

THE HAGUE( Reuters)-In its first ever judgment a special tribunal in The Hague jailed two leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army( KLA) on Wednesday for revealing names of hundreds of protected witnesses involved in war crimes cases.... The Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a Kosovo court seated in the Netherlands and staffed by international judges and lawyers, was set up in 2015 to handle cases under Kosovo law against fighters of the KLA.... It is separate from a U.N. tribunal, which was also locat

Veterans charities will share more than ￡2 million in funding from the Scottish Government. Veterans minister Keith Brown announced the funding during a debate on veterans’ mental health at the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday. Combat Stress will receive ￡1.4 million and Veterans First Point is being given ￡666, 000.Mr Brown said: “ In addition to the pressures caused by the pandemic, in August last year the withdrawal from Afghanistan affected veterans across the UK.“ We know that veterans’ menta

McDonough is the right leader for a difficult job in tumultuous times.We know this to be true from our own experience.... Accessible and results-driven, McDonough empowers and inspires staff.... This comes on top of the average of 20 veterans who already end their own lives every day in America....