DR Congo, M23 fighters agree roadmap for peace talks
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Canada retaliates as trade war with US escalates
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Kuwait strips naturalised citizens of voting rights
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Putin wants to draft 300,000 new troops
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New sanctions threatened by ‘desperate’ US to fail
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New sanctions threatened by ‘desperate’ US to fail
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Japan quake injures dozens
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REPEATED HEATWAVES / Drownings surge past 300 in France
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Security official killed, 6 injured in Pak explosion
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Wartime election would ‘destroy’ Ukraine, Zelenskiy says
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UN probes Israel expulsion of human rights lawyer
UN investigators said yesterday they were gathering evidence that could potentially be used in future prosecutions of those involved in Israel’s expulsion of a French-Palestinian human rights lawyer.
8 June 2023
Fighting rages at military site facility
Sudanese army soldiers and paramilitaries yesterday fought for control of a military facility in Khartoum
8 June 2023
Trump target of classified docs probe
US prosecutors have told Donald Trump’s lawyers that he is the target of a probe into his handling of classified documents after leaving the presidency, in a sign he might be indicted,
8 June 2023
Rohingyas testify on Myanmar crackdown
Members of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority testified in person for the first time on Wednesday in
8 June 2023
Ex-Pak PM gets bail on murder charges
Ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan yesterday secured bail from the Islamabad High Court over
8 June 2023
Four children hurt in knife attack
A man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps yesterday in an attack that sent shock waves through the country.
8 June 2023
37 Chinese warplanes cross into Taiwan’s ADIZ
Taiwan yesterday activated its defence systems after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft flying into the island’s air defence zone, some of which then flew into the western Pacific, in Beijing’s latest mass air incursion.
8 June 2023
World warming at record 0.2C per decade
Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned yesterday in a sweeping climate science update.
8 June 2023
11 killed in blast during funeral of Taliban official
An explosion took place inside a mosque in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least eleven people during the funeral of the Taliban's provincial deputy governor who died in an attack earlier this week, officials said
8 June 2023
6 children injured in mass stabbing in French Alps: security sources
Seven people, including six children, have been injured in a mass stabbing in the town of Annecy in the French Alps on Thursday, security sources told AFP
8 June 2023
US eyeing enhanced cooperation with Bangladesh in security and trade
The United States has reiterated that they are keen to enhance relationship and cooperation with Bangladesh in key areas, including security and trade.."Last year we celebrated an anniversary as it relates to our bilateral relationship with Bangladesh, and this year in 2023 we look forward
8 June 2023
Spreadsheet of the dead: counting the cost of war in central Ukraine
In peacetime, Viktor Tkachenko tracks local tenders, court registries and other open sources for a news outlet in central Ukraine.
8 June 2023
Canadian fires: US East Coast blanketed in veil of smoke
Schools across the US East Coast canceled outdoor activities, airline traffic slowed and millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors on Wednesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, blanketing cities in thick, yellow haze..The US National Weather Service issued air quality
8 June 2023
Blinken in Riyadh after Iran-Saudi détente
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Gulf Arab officials in Saudi Arabia yesterday at a time of rapidly shifting alliances following the oil-rich kingdom’s rapprochement with Iran.
7 June 2023
EU court upholds sanctions on Belarus oligarch
A top EU court yesterday rejected Belarusian magnate Alexander Shakutin’s bid to overturn sanctions imposed for his ties to leader Alexander Lukashenko’s government and its crackdown on the opposition.
7 June 2023
Turkish pro-opposition media hit with fines
Turkey’s journalists’ association yesterday criticised fines imposed by the country’s media regulator on four pro-opposition television channels during the election campaign, saying they “penalise the public’s right to information”.
7 June 2023
Sudan Conflict: Military factions battle over fuel depots, weapons
Sudan’s army has been battling to defend a military industrial complex believed to contain large stocks of weapons and ammunition in southern Khartoum, close to fuel and gas depots that are at risk of exploding, residents said yesterday.
7 June 2023
Spain logs ‘hottest spring on record’
Spain has registered its hottest spring since records began, with average temperatures almost two degrees Celsius higher than average, the AEMET national weather agency said yesterday.
7 June 2023
2 dead, 5 hurt in US school shooting
Two people were killed and five injured Tuesday during a shooting near a high school graduation in the US state of Virginia, police said, the latest in an epidemic of mass shootings plaguing the country.
7 June 2023
Will discuss relook at total ban
AMID protests by the BJP over a statement by Indian’s Karnataka Animal Husbandry Minister K Venkatesh indicating that the Congress government would amend the stringent cow slaughter Act passed by the previous BJP regime, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah weighed in, saying the matter was on their table.
7 June 2023