British lawmakers will try to oust Prime Minister Liz Truss this week, a report said yesterday, as the government axed almost all of its debt-fuelled tax cuts unveiled last month to avert fresh markets chaos, in another humiliating blow for the embattled PM.

The world’s fattest parrot can’t fly, and now it can’t run either.

Sweden’s parliament yesterday narrowly elected conservative leader Ulf Kristersson as prime minister, leading the country’s first government to be shored up by the far-right Sweden Democrats. Kristersson, 58, was elected by a wafer-thin majority of three votes, after announcing a deal on Friday to form a governing coalition comprising his Moderate Party, the Christian Democrats and the Liberals.

Russia’s former leader Dmitry Medvedev yesterday warned Israel against supplying weapons to Ukraine, saying any move to bolster Kyiv’s forces would severely damage bilateral ties.

Iran yesterday vowed an “immediate” response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death.

Twelve people were killed in a shooting at a bar in central Mexico on Saturday, local authorities said, with growing cartel violence making the region one of the country’s most dangerous.

Pope Francis said the need to reform the United Nations was “more than obvious” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war exposed its limits, in an extract of his new book published yesterday.

Britain’s Prime Minister Liz Truss yesterday vied to reboot her economic programme, but Conservative critics warned the party faces electoral oblivion under her crippled leadership.

US President Joe Biden admitted this week that American diplomats still did not know how Russian President Vladimir Putin could bring an end to his faltering war in Ukraine and save face. Western analysts see no good options.

Britain’s new finance minister yesterday warned of looming tax hikes as he admitted to “mistakes” made in a disastrous budget that still threatens to bring down Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Australia reported the first fatality from days of widespread flash flooding yesterday, despite heavy rains easing and flood levels topping out across much of the southeast.

An explosion in a coal mine in Turkey's northern Bartin province on Friday killed 22 people, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said, but it was not clear how many people were still trapped due to the blast that occurred as 110 people were working.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Azerbaijan yesterday slammed “unacceptable” comments from French leader Emmanuel Macron’s on the decades-long conflict between arch foes Baku and Yerevan.

More than five billion of the estimated 16 billion mobile phones possessed worldwide will likely be discarded or stashed away in 2022, experts said Thursday,

Turkey’s parliament on Thursday approved a tough pre-election law that could see reporters and social media users jailed for up to three years for spreading

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan backs the Kremlin’s idea of creating an international gas hub in Turkey and wants his government to quickly present implementation plans, media reported yesterday.

Even as extreme weather and climate disasters are multiplying, half of countries lack the advanced early warning systems needed to save lives, the United Nations warned yesterday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday said that major leaks which suddenly erupted in the Nord Stream gas pipelines running from Russia to Europe were an “act of international terrorism”.

Romantic gestures take many forms... well Ukraine’s defence ministry yesterday posted a 41-second video on social media aimed at giving France a gentle nudge to show its love through weapons’ supplies after repeated criticism that Paris has not been doing enough.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for talks in Kazakhstan today, a meeting at which the Turks are likely to raise ideas for peace in Ukraine, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters.