Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers score diplomatic wins
AFP : Three years into its rule of Afghanistan, the Taliban government has achieved some diplomatic wins even as it has consolidated power and enforced...
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Helicopter crashes into hotel roof in Australia
Deutsche Welle : A helicopter on an “unauthorized” flight crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in the northeastern Australian city of Cairns, starting...
Israel shrugs off school-strike critics to issue new Gaza evacuation order
Al Jazeera :Israel issued new evacuation orders overnight covering areas of southern Gaza as it pressed on with its assault on the enclave, despite global...
Venezuela’s top court says opposition failed to submit proof in election dispute
AP :Venezuela’s supreme court on Saturday said that it had not received evidence from the opposition coalition in the disputed July 28 presidential elections and...
Trump campaign says it was hacked, blames Iran
Reuters :Donald Trump’s US presidential campaign said on Saturday some of its internal communications were hacked and blamed the Iranian government, citing past hostilities between...
All 62 bodies recovered from Brazil plane crash wreckage
AFP :Brazilian authorities on Saturday finished recovering the bodies of the 62 people who died when their plane tumbled from the sky, as experts began...
Russia in ‘counter-terror’ mode over Ukraine attack
BBC :Russia has imposed a “counter-terrorism operation” regime in three regions to try to halt a surprise cross-border incursion by Ukrainian troops.The authorities in the...
93 dead in Israeli strike on Gaza school shelter
AFP :Gaza’s civil defence agency said yesterday an Israeli air strike on a school housing displaced Palestinians killed 93 people, as Israel’s military accused Hamas...
Why the ‘weird’ label is working for Kamala Harris
BBC :“They’re weird.”With that simple diss – as well as an overall more streamlined message – Vice-President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign has shifted the conversation...
Meet two Boeing mission astronauts stuck aboard the ISS
AFP :Two astronauts stranded in space may sound like the start to a big-screen science thriller, but the Boeing Starliner mission is no work of...