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22 October 2025, 02:41 AM
Sarkozy begins 5-yr prison sentence
21 October 2025, 18:00 PM
France's ex-leader Sarkozy jailed, proclaiming his innocence
21 October 2025, 17:44 PM
EU seeks ways to step up checks on Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’
20 October 2025, 18:21 PM
Amazon’s outage disrupts internet services
20 October 2025, 18:19 PM
Italian coastguard rescues dozens of migrants, 2 dead
20 October 2025, 18:00 PM
Louvre denies tapping Israeli firm in theft probe
20 October 2025, 15:44 PM
Louvre’s prized jewels stolen in daring heist
19 October 2025, 18:17 PM
Ex-French President Sarkozy says 'not afraid' ahead of jail term
19 October 2025, 14:15 PM
Protest hits Rome over Libya migrant deal after boat wreck
19 October 2025, 02:45 AM
‘Massive public pressure’ needed to galvanize climate fight
Calling for “massive” pressure to fight climate change after yesterday’s dire report by a UN science panel, activist Greta Thunberg said she plans to go to this year’s global climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, after all.
9 August 2021, 18:00 PM
World shudders at UN climate report
“Today’s report makes for sobering reading, and it is clear that the next decade is going to be pivotal to securing the future of our planet.”
BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON
9 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Belgian collects 60,000 vintage tin boxes
The colourful tins piled high around Belgian collector Yvette Dardenne used to contain goods ranging from chocolates, toffees, coffee and rice to tobacco, talc and shoe polish, and come from as far away as India.
9 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Hungarians take part in wife-carrying contest
Some 40 Hungarian husbands, with their wives on their backs, clambered over rough terrain on Saturday in the nation’s second wife-carrying contest.
9 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid passes spread worldwide
Passes and vaccine passports are increasingly being used across the world to limit entry to public places to those who have been vaccinated, recovered from Covid-19 or tested negative.
8 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Greece Wildfires: Hundreds of families left homeless
Hundreds of firefighters yesterday fought wildfires and flare-ups that have devoured record numbers of woodlands in Greece and left hundreds of families homeless, but heavy rains brought some respite to hard-hit Turkey.
7 August 2021, 18:00 PM
About 40 feared dead as boat capsizes off Western Sahara
About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain’s Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish non-governmental organisation, said on Friday.
7 August 2021, 18:00 PM
UN: North Korea developing nuke missile programs
North Korea continued developing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs during the first half of 2021 in violation of international sanctions and despite the country’s worsening economic situation, according to an excerpt of a confidential United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday.
7 August 2021, 18:00 PM
195 countries okay key UN climate report
Representatives from 195 countries yesterday approved a critical UN science report that will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment yet of the state of Earth’s climate.
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Pandemic pushes millions more Mexicans into poverty
Millions more Mexicans have fallen into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, with people living in one of the country’s top tourist destinations hit particularly hard, official data showed Thursday.
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia formally outlaws Navalny organisations
Russia has formally banned organisations established by jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny as the opposition says the authorities are trying to stifle dissent ahead of parliamentary elections.
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
UN warns of hunger crisis in Myanmar
The United Nations yesterday said it urgently needed funds to feed people in Myanmar amid fears that up to 6.2 million could be plunged into hunger by October.
6 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Thousands flee in Greece as wildfires sweep through Mediterranean
Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens on Friday as emergency crews struggled to stop wildfires from spreading to more towns while scorching winds fuelled blazes across Greece for the fourth day.
6 August 2021, 13:47 PM
EU accuses Taliban of breaking commitment
The European Union yesterday condemned the Taliban’s latest deadly attacks in Afghanistan and demanded “an urgent, comprehensive and permanent ceasefire”.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
1914 - Austria-Hungary declared war on Russia, and Serbia declared war on Germany in WWI.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Mexico sues US gunmakers over arms trafficking
Mexico said it filed a lawsuit against major US gunmakers in a Boston court on Wednesday over illegal cross-border arms flows that it blamed for fueling rampant drug-related violence.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
WHO ‘deeply concerned’ by Long Covid
With nearly 200 million people known to have had Covid-19, the WHO said it was deeply concerned by the unknown numbers who may still be suffering with Long Covid.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Australia to make reparations for ‘stolen generation’
Australia will provide one-off cash payments of US$60,000 to many Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families as children, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced yesterday, to redress what he described as a “shameful” period in the nation’s history.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Bosnia’s new top envoy to use ‘tools’ to help divided nation
Bosnia’s new top international envoy Christian Schmidt said Wednesday he would use the tools at his disposal to make the ethnically-divided country more functional, even as Bosnian Serb leaders rejected his legitimacy.
5 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Belarusian sprinter decided to defect on way to airport over safety fears
Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya decided to defect as she was being driven to a Tokyo airport because her grandmother told her that it was not safe to return home to Belarus.
5 August 2021, 17:57 PM