Mountain forests disappearing at alarming rate: study

Logging, wildfires and farming are causing mountain forests, habitat to 85 percent of the world’s birds, mammals and amphibians, to vanish at an alarming rate, according to a study published on Friday.
18 March 2023

US leadership role in ME facing deep challenges

China’s shock success at bringing Saudi Arabia and Iran together has challenged the United States’ longstanding role as the key outside power broker in the Middle East.
18 March 2023

Trump says expecting ‘arrest’

Former US President Donald Trump said he expects to be “arrested” on Tuesday over hush money allegedly paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, calling on his supporters to protest.
18 March 2023

Finland on course to join Nato

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland’s bid to join Nato.
18 March 2023

100 killed this year

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian Friday in what the army described as an attempted “stabbing attack”, bringing the number of people killed in the conflict this year to 100.
18 March 2023

Millions of dead fish clog Australian river

Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region.
18 March 2023

‘I’M BACK’

Former president Donald Trump wrote his first posts on his reinstated Facebook and YouTube accounts Friday, more than two years after he was banned over the US Capitol insurrection.
18 March 2023

Tony Blair: Putin can’t use Iraq as justification for Ukraine

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair is by turns pensive and defiant as he reflects on the upcoming anniversaries of two events that arguably defined the best and worst of his decade in power.
18 March 2023

Biden: Putin committed war crimes

US President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has clearly committed war crimes and the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision to issue an arrest warrant for him was justified.
18 March 2023

Putin visits Crimea on annexation anniversary

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday visited Crimea on the ninth anniversary of the peninsula's annexation from Ukraine, Russian state TV reported
18 March 2023

Facing arrest, Trump calls for protests

Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he expects to be arrested on Tuesday as prosecutors consider charges over a hush money payment to a porn star, and called on his supporters to protest..A spokesperson for the Manhattan district attorney's office, which has been investigat
18 March 2023

'I'm back': Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after 2-year ban

The posts on his Facebook page and YouTube channel, titled "I'M BACK!", show a CNN video announcing Trump's election as president in the 2016 race against Hillary Clinton. It then fades to a "Trump 2024" screen
18 March 2023

Millions of dead fish clog Australian river

Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the surface barely visible underneath
18 March 2023

Committee to lead party if I'm arrested: Imran Khan

"I have made a committee which will obviously take decisions once - if - I'm inside"
18 March 2023

What do we know so far

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, over responsibility for war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine during the war ongoing for over a year
18 March 2023

Lance Reddick of 'The Wire', 'John Wick' dies at 60

His death came just days before the planned March 24 release of the fourth installment in the "John Wick" franchise, in which Reddick reprised his role as a hotel manager named Charon, an ally of the title character, a professional assassin forced out of retirement, played by Keanu Reeves
18 March 2023

Biden says ICC arrest warrant for Putin 'justified'

The move "makes a very strong point," the US president told reporters at the White House, while noting that the United States is not a member of the ICC
18 March 2023

Actor Lance Reddick of 'The Wire', 'John Wick' dies at 60

Actor Lance Reddick who played steely Baltimore police lieutenant Cedric Daniels in hit TV show "The Wire" has died, his publicist said Friday. He was 60
17 March 2023

Meta maps way to ‘kill’ online deception campaigns

Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment.
17 March 2023

War Crimes in Ukraine: ICC issues arrest warrant against Putin

The International Criminal Court (ICC) yesterday announced it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin over alleged war crimes in Ukraine, including “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.
17 March 2023