Drop hunt for Julian Assange

Five of the Western world’s leading newspapers yesterday issued a joint call for the United States to drop its prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
28 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Canada launches new Indo-Pacific strategy

Canada launched a new Indo-Pacific strategy yesterday, vowing more resources to deal with a “disruptive” China while working with the world’s second-biggest economy on climate change and trade issues.
27 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Landslide kills 8 on Italian island

At least eight people died yesterday after heavy rains caused a landslide on the Italian island of Ischia, media reports said. A wave of mud swept
26 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Amazon workers call worldwide Black Friday strike

Workers at Amazon AMZN.O sites across the globe, including in the United States, Germany and France, were expected to go on strike on Black Friday, targeting the online retailer on one of the busiest shopping days of the year with calls for better pay.
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Weapons industry booming

Eastern Europe’s arms industry is churning out guns, artillery shells and other military supplies at a pace not seen since the Cold War as governments in the region lead efforts to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia.
25 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Germany moves to ease citizenship rules

The German government today said it was working on plans to "simplify" the path to citizenship, by speeding up the naturalisation of immigrants and allowing dual nationality.
25 November 2022, 15:33 PM

Halt violence on protesters

The UN rights chief yesterday urged Iran to immediately halt violence against protesters, as countries debated whether to launch an investigation into Tehran’s deadly crackdown.
24 November 2022, 18:00 PM

S African president ready to face crunch probe finding

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed domestic corruption claims that have prompted questions over his future during a visit to the UK yesterday, but rejected suggestions they could cut short his presidency.
24 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Russian resignation unblocks key Unesco committee

The resignation of Russia’s ambassador to Unesco will end the deadlock in a key group he chaired that is charged with preserving cultural sites around the world, a diplomatic source told AFP.
24 November 2022, 18:00 PM

‘IS bride’ would face death penalty in Bangladesh, lawyer tells UK hearing

‘IS bride’ Shamima Begum is now stateless and would face death penalty if sent to Bangladesh, her lawyer told the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) in UK.
24 November 2022, 07:20 AM

Climate change will fuel diseases, warns Global Fund

Climate change will end up killing people by fuelling infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Tuesday.
23 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Portugal arrests 35 over migrant trafficking

Portuguese authorities have arrested 35 people in the south of the country for alleged human trafficking, money laundering and falsifying documents, police announced yesterday.
23 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Global deaths in 2019: Bacterial infections second leading cause

Bacterial infections are the second leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for one in eight of all deaths in 2019, the first global estimate of
22 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Prankster fools Polish president

The Polish president spoke to a hoax caller pretending to be France's Emmanuel Macron on the night that a missile hit a village near the Ukrainian border, his office said on Tuesday, an admission likely to raise questions about its operations..In a 7-1/2 minute recording of the call posted
22 November 2022, 12:56 PM

UK court told ‘IS bride’ was child trafficking victim

Lawyers for a woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to join the Islamic State group in Syria challenged the decision yesterday, arguing she was a victim of child trafficking.
21 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Timekeepers vote to scrap leap second

Scientists and government representatives meeting at a conference in France voted on Friday to scrap leap seconds by 2035, the organisation responsible for global timekeeping said.
19 November 2022, 18:00 PM

9 killed in suspected gas blast in far eastern Russia

A suspected gas explosion early yesterday in a five-storey residential building killed nine people in Russia’s southeastern Sakhalin island, the local governor said.
19 November 2022, 18:00 PM

47 children among 378 killed in Iran crackdown

Iranian security forces have killed at least 378 people -- including 47 children -- in a crackdown on protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death, a rights group said in an updated toll yesterday.
19 November 2022, 18:00 PM

9 dead in Russia apartment block collapse

Nine people have been found dead in the rubble of a five-storey apartment block that partially collapsed on the Russian Pacific island of Sakhalin, the regional governor said on Saturday, and emergency services were searching for one still missing..Russian news agencies said the collapse a
19 November 2022, 10:34 AM

Khomeini’s home set on fire

Protesters in Iran have set on fire the ancestral home of the Islamic republic’s founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini two months into the anti-regime protest movement, images showed yesterday.
18 November 2022, 18:00 PM