Police in Georgia arrest dozens in clash with pro-EU protesters

Police in Georgia arrested dozens of people overnight and early yesterday in a violent crackdown on protests against the government’s decision to delay EU membership talks.
29 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia fires drones, missiles across Ukraine

Russian missiles damaged residential buildings in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kharkiv and Odesa in the south, and a blizzard of drones caused temporary power cuts in Mykolaiv region and targeted the capital Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said yesterday.
25 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia says it needs migrants to fill labour shortage

Russia needs migrants in order to develop because of its dwindling domestic workforce, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published yesterday.
22 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Spain to regularise tens of thousands more migrants per year

Spain’s left-wing government yesterday announced an immigration law reform regularising tens of thousands more migrants per year, in a fresh contrast to harsher policies elsewhere in Europe.
19 November 2024, 18:00 PM

UK scrambles jets to monitor Russian military plane over North Sea

UK jets were scrambled to monitor a Russian reconnaissance aircraft flying close to UK airspace, the defence minister in London said yesterday.
15 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Swedish daily DN halts posts on X

Sweden’s newspaper of reference, Dagens Nyheter (DN), said yesterday it would stop publishing its articles on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, citing a “harsh and extreme” climate.
15 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Russian forces capture another village in east Ukraine

Russia said yesterday it captured another village in east Ukraine, closing in on the town of Kurakhove after months of steady advances.
14 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Canada reports first case of bird flu in a person

A teenager in British Columbia has become the first person in Canada to test positive for bird flu, authorities said Saturday.
10 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Canada on ‘high alert’ bracing for migrants fleeing US

Canadian authorities said they’re on “high alert” with all eyes on the US border as the country braces for a possible influx of migrants from the United States.
9 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Europe boosts defence spending but lacks soldiers: study

Europe has increased defence spending since Russia invaded Ukraine, but its defence capacities including military manpower are still insufficient, a British security think-tank warned yesterday.
8 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia captures Ukraine village near logistics hub

Russia yesterday claimed to have captured another Ukrainian village, just a dozen kilometres from the key eastern logistics hub Pokrovsk, as its troops advance rapidly.
3 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Biggest peacetime disaster recovery operation in Spain

The deadliest flash floods in Spain’s modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said yesterday.
2 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Moscow targets Kyiv in hours-long drone attack

Russia unleashed its latest overnight drone strike on Ukraine, targeting the capital Kyiv in an attack that lasted into midday and wounded at least one person, city officials said yesterday.
2 November 2024, 18:00 PM

High early voter turnout gives both sides hope

More than 62 million US voters have already cast their ballots in the 2024 election, breaking records in some states and leading both sides to hope it gives them an edge -- even as experts warn the data is difficult to interpret.
1 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Russia hands former US consulate employee nearly 5-year jail term

A Russian former employee of the US consulate in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok has been sentenced to four years and ten months in prison for “secret collaboration with a foreign state”, Russian agencies said yesterday.
1 November 2024, 18:00 PM

Lost Mayan city discovered in Mexico jungle

A team of archaeologists has discovered more than 6,000 ancient Mayan structures hidden by vegetation in the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche, including a city of pyramids they have dubbed “Valeriana.”
30 October 2024, 18:39 PM

Canada, UK, EU slap new sanctions on Myanmar

The EU, UK, and Canada yesterday announced fresh sanctions targeting the Myanmar junta’s access to “military materiel, equipment and funds”.
29 October 2024, 18:00 PM

UK climate strategy ruled lawful in landmark court case

A man whose home had to be demolished because of coastal erosion yesterday lost a landmark legal claim against the UK government that accused it of failing to meet  obligations to protect citizens from the effects of climate change.
25 October 2024, 18:00 PM

Bomb scare forces evacuation of major UK airport

A major international airport serving the UK’s second-largest city was evacuated and all flights were suspended for several hours yesterday because of a security alert.
23 October 2024, 18:00 PM

BRICS, not West, will drive global economic growth

The BRICS group will generate most of the global economic growth in the coming years thanks to its size and relatively fast growth compared with that of developed Western nations, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
22 October 2024, 19:28 PM