NY Mayor Mamdani defends scrapping executive orders
Reuters : New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his revocation of executive orders that his predecessor Eric Adams issued after being indicted...
International
Severe weather in Gaza hits vulnerable, wounded most in Israel’s war
Al Jazeera : The winter has made a life of relentless suffering worse for the people of Gaza, particularly for the wounded, children and...
More than 100 shelter overnight in Japan shrine due to heavy snow
BBC : More than 100 people have had to shelter in a shrine on a mountain top in Japan after heavy snowfall cut off...
Dozens missing after boat carrying migrants capsized of Gambia
Agencies : Dozens are missing after a boat carrying more than 200 migrants on their way to Europe capsized off the coast of Gambia, the...
Saudi Arabia welcomes request from Yemen
Al Jazeera : Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has welcomed a request from Yemen’s Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC) for a forum in Riyadh to...
Spain offers to mediate for ‘peaceful solution’ in Venezuela
AFP : Spain on Saturday offered to mediate in the crisis between the United States and Venezuela after US attacks on Caracas and the...
Abbas Araghchi slumps Trump’s warning: Iran urges UN to respond to Trump’s ‘reckless’ threats over protests
Al Jazeera, BBC : Iran’s United Nations ambassador Amir Saeed Iravani has written to the UN secretary-general and the president of the UN Security...
Cambodia demands Thailand withdraw troops, week into border truce
Agencies : Cambodia called on neighboring Thailand on Saturday to pull out its forces from areas Phnom Penh claims as its own, one week since...
6.5 magnitude quake strikes southern Mexico, killing 2
Reuters : A powerful earthquake shook southern Mexico on Friday morning, damaging roads and hospitals and briefly interrupting President Claudia Sheinbaum’s first press conference...
Contaminated water kills 9, hospitalises 200 in India’s city
Reuters : At least nine people have died and more than 200 have been hospitalised in the central Indian city of Indore after a...
Mamdani pledges ‘new era’ for New York
The Guardian : Zohran Mamdani vowed to “reinvent” New York City in a speech on his first day as mayor, promising “a new era”...
Swiss face painful task of identifying victims of deadly bar fire
Reuters : Investigators on Friday set about the painful task of identifying the burned bodies from a blaze that engulfed a crowded bar and...