World at ‘turning point’

President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed Russia’s military would be victorious in Ukraine and blamed Western countries for the conflict, comparing the fighting to World War II during a military parade on Red Square.
9 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Mexican authorities rescue 113

Authorities in northwest Mexico rescued 113 kidnapped migrants of different nationalities from a building along the border with the United States, the state prosecutor’s office said.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

8 killed by gunman at Texas mall

A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

14m watched coronation of King Charles III: BBC

More than 14 million people tuned in to watch King Charles III’s coronation on BBC television, the corporation said yesterday.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Moscow promised more ammo

Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said yesterday he had received “a promise” of more ammunition from the Russian army, after he threatened to pull his frontline Wagner troops out of Bakhmut.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Protests, support as Charles III coronated in UK

Thousands of people turned central London red, white and blue yesterday, with a sea of Union Jack flags lining the streets for the coronation of King Charles III.
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Charles III is crowned

Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms yesterday at Britain’s first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and spectacle.
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM

8 killed in another Serbian shooting

Eight people were killed and at least 10 were wounded in a shooting in the town of Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, local media reported, with police setting up roadblocks in their hunt for the gunman..The shooting comes less than 48 hours after a 13-year old boy shot dead nine and injured s
5 May 2023, 04:38 AM

UK’s Sunak warns of ‘hard’ test in first date with voters

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives yesterday braced for heavy losses in their first major electoral test since he became the UK’s third leader in the space of a few chaotic weeks last year.
4 May 2023, 18:00 PM

258m needed urgent food aid in 2022: UN

Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a UN report said yesterday, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year.
3 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Tech industry allowing ‘deluge’ of misinfo: RSF

Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.
3 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Boy shoots dead 9 in Belgrade classroom

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said..Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementa
3 May 2023, 09:53 AM

Int’l police arrest 288 in dark web bust

A global crackdown has halted a major “dark web” marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros
2 May 2023, 18:00 PM

BBC chairman resigns over Johnson loan

The BBC’s chairman yesterday announced his resignation after his involvement in a loan for then UK prime minister Boris Johnson raised questions about the broadcaster’s vaunted impartiality.
28 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Russia’s Navalny says he could face life in prison

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said yesterday he could face life in prison on “terrorism” charges while another popular opposition politician went on trial in Russia’s escalating clampdown on dissent.
26 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Probably on verge of new world war: Putin ally Dimitry Medvedev

An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising.
25 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Isolating China against UK’s interest: Cleverly

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly yesterday was expected to argue it would be “a betrayal” of Britain’s national interest to isolate China and urge against declaring “a new Cold War”.
25 April 2023, 18:00 PM

‘Ukraine war not main cause of global food crisis’

The Kremlin said yesterday that a global shortfall in food supplies was not primarily attributable to a lack of Russian and Ukrainian grain on the market.
25 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Italy rescues 1,600 migrants in Med

Italy has rescued 47 boats carrying around 1,600 migrants in the central Mediterranean sea in the last two days and brought them ashore to the island of Lampedusa.
25 April 2023, 18:00 PM

Angry crowd heckles France's Macron over pensions legislation

Protesters greeted French President Emmanuel Macron with boos and calls for him to resign in his first public appearance since he signed into law an unpopular rise in the retirement age.
19 April 2023, 16:07 PM