7 killed in Peru light plane crash

At least seven people have died after a light aircraft crashed during a flight above the Nazca Lines archaeological site in Peru, local police and the national government said on Friday.
5 February 2022

Ukrainian troops train with missiles, weapon delivered by US

Ukrainian troops on Friday trained at the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine, using anti-tank missiles, launchers and other military hardware delivered by the United States as part of a $200 million security package.
4 February 2022

Police says will counter 'dangerous' protest by truckers in Canadian capital

Ottawa police vowed on Friday to crack down on an "increasingly dangerous" protest by hundreds of truckers who have shut down the center of the Canadian capital for eight days to demand an end to COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
4 February 2022

West ‘making things up’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused “Western colleagues” of making things up after US officials claimed to have evidence of a planned operation by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russians.
4 February 2022

Taking charge or losing control?

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was scrambling to save his premiership yesterday after four of his inner circle quit in the fallout from lockdown-breaking parties in his Downing Street office.
4 February 2022

Opposing nato expansion: Putin secures Xi’s backing

Russia won China’s backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine yesterday, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led Nato military alliance should not admit new members.
4 February 2022

US police publish footage showing officer shoot Black man

Authorities in the US city of Minneapolis, where George Floyd was murdered in 2020, published body-cam video Thursday showing the police shooting of a 22-year-old African American man.
4 February 2022

Shadowy militant group claims latest UAE drone attack

A little-known militant group has claimed the latest drone attack on the United Arab Emirates, raising the possibility of widening security threats after a wave of assaults from Yemeni rebels.
4 February 2022

Zuckerberg loses $29b in a day

Mark Zuckerberg lost $29 billion in net worth on Thursday as Meta Platforms Inc’s stock marked a record one-day plunge. Meta’s stock fell 26 percent,
4 February 2022

IS chief ‘kills himself’

The leader of Islamic State died when he blew himself and family members up during a US military raid in Syria, President Joe Biden said on Thursday, dealing a blow to the jihadist group’s efforts to reorganize as a guerrilla force after losing large swathes of territory.
4 February 2022

China, Russia proclaim deep strategic alliance to balance US influence

China and Russia proclaimed a deep strategic alliance on Friday to balance what they portrayed as the malign global influence of the United States as China's President Xi Jinping hosted Russia's Vladimir Putin on the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
4 February 2022

Russia accuses US of stoking Ukraine tensions

Russia accused the United States on Thursday of ramping up tensions and ignoring Moscow's calls to ease a standoff over Ukraine, a day after Washington announced it would send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.
3 February 2022

Pandemic end in sight for Europe: WHO

Two years after the outbreak of Covid-19, Europe could soon enter a “long period of tranquility” due to high vaccination rates, the milder Omicron variant and the end of winter, the WHO said yesterday.
3 February 2022

US troop boost fuels tensions in Europe

The deployment of additional United States troops in Eastern Europe is escalating tensions in the region, the Kremlin said yesterday, after Washington said it would send 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.
3 February 2022

Asia trip in spring: Joe Biden plans ‘several’ stops

Joe Biden plans several stops during a visit to Asia this spring, which will be his first to the region as president and include a summit with three key regional
3 February 2022

IS top command al-Qurayshi killed self, family by exploding bomb during US raid: Biden

The leader of the violent Islamic State group was killed during an overnight raid carried out by US special forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, US President Joe Biden said Thursday.
3 February 2022

India won’t attend Winter Olympics ceremonies in China

India today said its envoy in Beijing would not attend the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in China in protest against China for allowing its soldier, who was present in a standoff with Indian troops in Ladakh in 2020, to join the Olympic torch relay.
3 February 2022

Netherlands to dismantle historic bridge to allow Bezos’s superyacht to pass

The Dutch port city of Rotterdam said Wednesday it would temporarily dismantle an historic bridge to allow a superyacht built for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to pass.
3 February 2022

Erdogan in Ukraine to pitch Turkey as a mediator

President Tayyip Erdogan will discuss tensions between Ukraine and Russia with his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday, after pitching Turkey as a mediator, and an official said he was not picking any sides in the crisis.
3 February 2022

13, including children, dead in Syria after US special forces' air raid

US special forces hunted down high-ranking jihadists in a rare airborne raid in northwestern Syria on Thursday, killing 13 people in an operation the Pentagon described as "successful".
3 February 2022