12yrs house arrest for Colombian ex-leader Alvaro Uribe
BBC : Colombian former President Álvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for witness tampering and a fraud charge. The 73-year-old...
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South Africa arrests 1,000 illegal miners
AFP : South African police said Friday they have arrested some 1,000 undocumented migrants working in illegal gold mines in the northeast of the country....
Trump orders nuclear submarines moved after Russian ‘provocative statements’
Japan today : US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in “the appropriate regions” in response...
India will buy Russian oil despite Trump’s threats
Reuters : Indian officials have said they would keep purchasing oil from Russia despite the threat of penalties that U.S. President Donald Trump said he...
Search intensifies for five trapped in giant Chile copper mine
AFP : Rescue teams in Chile searched Friday for five miners trapped after a partial collapse triggered by a tremor killed one colleague and halted...
US envoy meets Israeli hostage families in Tel Aviv
AFP : US envoy Steve Witkoff on Saturday met the anguished families of Israeli hostages still held in Gaza, as fears for the captives’ survival...
Man accused of lacing sweets as kids fall ill at UK camp
AFP : A 76-year-old man appeared in a British court on Saturday accused of lacing sweets with sedatives and causing several children to fall unwell...
Thai storm kills six
AFP : Floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Wipha since last month have killed six people and affected more than 230,000 people across Thailand....
Japan sweats through hottest July on record
AFP : Japan sweltered through its hottest July since records began in 1898, the weather agency has reported, warning of further “severe heat” in the...
SpaceX crew Dragon docks with Int’l Space Station
AFP : An international team of four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS). “Docking confirmed!”,...
Jihadists kill ‘dozens’ of soldiers and civilians
AFP : Two jihadist attacks in northeastern Burkina Faso early this week killed “several dozens” of soldiers and civilians, two security sources and a local...