EU wants to send more people back to Asia, Africa, Middle East

European Union migration ministers meet on Thursday to discuss visa restrictions and better coordination inside the bloc to be able to send more people with no right to asylum in Europe back to their home countries including Iraq.
26 January 2023

1 killed in Spain church attack, 'terror' motive probed

At least one person was killed and another was severely injured by a man wielding a bladed weapon in southern Spain on Wednesday, officials said.
26 January 2023

US, Germany okay tanks for Ukraine

The United States and Germany yesterday announced deliveries of top-of-the-line tanks to Ukraine, sweeping aside their longstanding misgivings and signaling a new surge of Western support for an expected counter-offensive against Russian invasion.
25 January 2023

Germany okays tanks for Kyiv

Germany yesterday cleared the way for Europe to send scores of battle tanks to Ukraine while the US prepared to make a similar announcement -- moves hailed by Kyiv as a potential turning point in the war, and condemned by Moscow as escalation.
25 January 2023

Israel forces kill Palestinian in alleged knife attack

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank yesterday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a “stabbing attack”.
25 January 2023

Dominance of Online Ad Market: US sues Google

The US Justice Department has sued Google for its dominance of the online advertising market, launching a fresh legal battle against the California-based tech giant.
25 January 2023

ChatGPT bot passes US law school exam

A chatbot powered by reams of data from the internet has passed exams at a US law school after writing essays on topics ranging from constitutional law to taxation and torts.
25 January 2023

Microsoft scrambles to fix global outage

US tech giant Microsoft yesterday said it was working to fix a networking problem that had left users across the world struggling to
25 January 2023

Chris Hipkins takes charge as NZ PM

Hundreds gathered to applaud Jacinda Ardern as she left New Zealand’s parliament to resign as prime minister yesterday, before
25 January 2023

Norway fund drops China, India firms

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, has excluded two companies from China and India for selling weapons to Myanmar, the Norwegian central bank said.
25 January 2023

Iran slaps tit-for-tat sanctions on EU, UK

Iran yesterday imposed sanctions on 34 individuals and entities from the European Union and Britain in reaction to similar measures taken over Tehran’s response to months-long protests.
25 January 2023

US averted nuclear war between India, Pakistan

Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo wrote in a book published Tuesday that India and Pakistan came close to nuclear war in 2019 and that US intervention prevented escalation.
25 January 2023

Knife attack on German train kills 2

Two people were killed and several others wounded in a knife attack on a regional train in northern Germany Wednesday, police said, announcing that the alleged assailant had been captured.
25 January 2023

Israel forces kill Palestinian in West Bank

Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army described as a "stabbing attack".
25 January 2023

Germany clears way for scores of tanks for Ukraine

Germany cleared the way on Wednesday for Europe to send scores of battle tanks to Ukraine, and Washington was poised make a similar announcement - moves hailed by Kyiv as a potential turning point in the war and condemned by Moscow as escalation.
25 January 2023

Berlin airport cancels all flights over strike

All passenger flights were cancelled at Berlin Brandenburg airport (BER) on Wednesday, as staff walked out in a dispute over higher pay.
25 January 2023

Chris Hipkins sworn in as New Zealand PM

Chris Hipkins was formally sworn in as New Zealand's prime minister in a ceremony on Wednesday following the unexpected resignation last week of Jacinda Ardern.
25 January 2023

Earth’s inner core may have started spinning other way

Far below our feet, a giant may have started moving against us.
24 January 2023

Cable sabotage paralyses busy Paris rail station

A busy railway hub in Paris suffered a near-total traffic shutdown yesterday after vandals triggered a crippling signal malfunction by setting cables on fire.
24 January 2023

Leopard tanks for Ukraine: Germany promises swift answer

Germany yesterday said it would decide “shortly” whether to authorise the export of powerful German-made Leopard battle tanks long sought by Kyiv and encouraged allies to start training Ukrainian forces to use them.
24 January 2023