US, UK, sanction Lebanon’s central bank ex-governor
Reuters :The United States, Britain and Canada on Thursday announced sanctions against the former governor of Lebanon’s central bank, Riad Salameh, accusing him of corrupt...
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian, wound eight, in West Bank raid
Reuters :Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man during an operation in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday, the official Palestinian...
S Africa’s ex-president Zuma sent to jail
Reuters :South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma reported back to jail on Friday only to be swiftly released, the government said in the latest twist...
One killed in Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia
AFP :A Russian strike on a civilian building killed at least one person and wounded 14 in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on Thursday, Ukrainian...
Prolonged drought deepens Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
Reuters :In parched brown hills in north Afghanistan, Abdul Hahad tears stalks of wheat out of the arid earth. In the third year of water...
US proposes January start for Trump election trial
Reuters :US prosecutors on Thursday asked a federal judge to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election...
Indonesia capital hit by major pollution spikes: monitor
AFP :Indonesian capital Jakarta has been the world’s most polluted city on four days this week, according to air quality monitor IQAir, as authorities fail...
UK to host global energy security summit in early 2024
AFP :Britain will host an international energy security summit next year, the government announced on Thursday, inviting big oil-producing nations and companies but focusing also...
Pope warns against ‘indifference’ after migrant shipwreck
AFP :Pope Francis on Thursday expressed his sorrow at news of the latest deadly migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean, urging people not to become “indifferent”...
‘Al-Qaeda’ attack kills secessionist commander and three fighters in Yemen
Al Jazeera :A suspected al-Qaeda attack in southern Yemen has killed a military commander and three soldiers from a secessionist group, security officials and a...
China, Philippines’ dispute over grounded warship heats up
Reuters :China again asked the Philippines to tow away a grounded warship – a World War Two-era vessel now used as a military outpost –...