North Korea moving thousands of flood victims to capital: KCNA
AFP :North Korea will move more than 15,000 flood victims to the capital, state media said Saturday, as leader Kim Jong Un insisted recovery efforts...
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Biden, Kamala to hit trail for first time since switch-up
AFP :Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will next week make their first joint campaign trip since the US president’s shock decision to drop out of...
Ukraine presses on with offensive, hits Russian airbase
AFP :Ukraine pressed on with a major cross-border incursion into Russia on Friday, also launching a significant air attack on a Russian airfield hundreds of...
Maduro blocks access to X in Venezuela
Al Jazeera :Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has ordered a 10-day ban on social media platform X amid an uproar in the country over a disputed...
‘Everything is legitimate’: Israeli leaders defend soldiers accused of rape
Al Jazeera :Video has emerged of a gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert,...
Thailand disbands opposition party relaunche under new name
Al Jazeera :Thailand’s main opposition Move Forward Party (MFP) has relaunched with a new name and leader after being forced to disband by a court...
Ex-Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont leaves Spain Al Jazeera Catalonia’s former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has left for Belgium a day after briefly appearing at a rally in Barcelona and evading a massive manhunt and an arrest warrant in Spain. Puigdemont’s lawyer Gonzalo Boye told Catalan radio on Friday that his client had fled abroad again without giving details. His Junts party’s general secretary, Jordi Turull, told RAC1 radio that Puigdemont had arrived in Spain on Tuesday night and left on Thursday evening to head back to his home in Waterloo, where he has lived for seven years in self-imposed exile since leading a failed bid for Catalonia’s secession in 2017. The 61-year-old former leader delivered a speech to thousands of supporters gathered in Barcelona near parliament on Thursday and then disappeared. A top Spanish judge demanded explanations from police and the government about how Puigdemont was able to return to Spain and vanish again without arrest. Judge Pablo Llarena asked the Ministry of Interior for details of its plan to arrest him at the border as well as “the orders that were issued” to capture the politician “after his escape”, according to documents made public by the Supreme Court.
Ex-Catalan separatist leader Puigdemont leaves Spain Al JazeeraCatalonia’s former separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has left for Belgium a day after briefly appearing at a rally...
UK anti-racism protesters take to streets after days of far-right unrest
DAWN :Thousands of anti-racism protesters took to the streets in several English cities on Wednesday to oppose days of far-right violence that have had UK...
Biden, Harris warn of Trump threat to democracy
AFP :President Joe Biden said Wednesday he is “not confident” Donald Trump would concede peacefully if he loses the US election, as the Republican’s rival...
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passes away
Times of India :Former chief minister of India’s West Bengal and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passed away on Thursday morning in...
Fighting in Kursk region enters third day, Russia says
BBC :Heavy fighting in Russia’s Kursk region has entered a third day, with efforts “ongoing” to expel Ukrainian forces from the country, Moscow’s defence ministry...
Kenya police clear pockets of protesters in capital with tear gas
Reuters :Police fired tear gas to clear pockets of anti-government demonstrators from the centre of Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday, as their protest movement sought...