Singapore minister charged with corruption in rare case
Reuters :Singapore’s former Transport Minister S Iswaran has been charged in court for graft, the anti-corruption agency said on Thursday, in one of the most...
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Kate has surgery, Charles in hospital next week
Reuters :Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, has undergone successful planned abdominal surgery and will be in hospital for up to two weeks, while King Charles...
French shifts on school, birth rights
BBC :French President Emmanuel Macron has come off the fence and opened the way for policies that are unmistakably on the political right.That is the...
Israeli strikes south Gaza
BBC :Residents of Khan Younis in southern Gaza say they have faced one of the most intense nights of air strikes since the start of...
US claims seizure of Iranian weapons bound for Yemen’s Houthis
Aljazeera :The US Navy has reported that it seized weapons sent by Iran to resupply Yemen’s Houthi rebels last week. The United States Central Command...
EU, US urge sustained support for Ukraine in war against Russia
Aljazeera :The European Union and the United States have urged allies of Ukraine to keep up with their funding as the war with Russia nears...
Iran launches missile strikes in northern Iraq and Syria, claims to destroy Israeli spy base
CNN :Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Monday launched ballistic missiles at what it said was a spy base for Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad in northern Iraq,...
Maldives ultimatum on troops deepens row with India
BBC :Bilateral ties between the Maldives and India – that have hit rock-bottom in recent weeks – have taken another tumble after Male formally asked...
They were Israel’s ‘eyes on the border’ – but their Hamas warnings went unheard
BBC :For years, units of young female conscripts had one job here. It was to sit in surveillance bases for hours, looking for signs of...
Russia dismisses Davos discussion on Ukrainian president’s peace plan
Aljazeera :Russia has dismissed discussions on a peace plan proposed by Ukraine at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in Switzerland as pointless. The...
Strikes pound Gaza on Day 100 of Israel-Hamas war
AFP :Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Sunday, the 100th day of the war sparked by the Hamas attack which has claimed a surging civilian death...
37 dead in Colombia landslides
AFP :Rescuers were working against the clock to find survivors of landslides that claimed at least 37 lives, mostly children, in northwestern Colombia, the country’s...