Gabon foreign minister dies of heart attack
AFP :Gabon’s Foreign Minister Michael Moussa Adamo died on Friday after suffering a heart attack while waiting to go into a cabinet meeting, the government...
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Chris Hipkins set to replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand prime minister
Reuters :Chris Hipkins, who played a significant role in New Zealand’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister...
British PM fined by police for not wearing seatbelt
AFP :British police on Friday fined Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for failing to wear a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media...
Saudi Arabia links Israel normalisation with two-state solution
AFP :Saudi Arabia will not normalise ties with Israel in the absence of a two-state solution with the Palestinians, the kingdom’s top diplomat has said,...
Israeli civilian kills Palestinian at West Bank farm
AFP :An Israeli civilian shot dead a Palestinian Saturday at a settler farm in the occupied West Bank after an attempted stabbing, the military said,...
UN highlights huge step backwards for women following Afghanistan trip
AFP :Apparent exemptions granted by the Taliban to harsh restrictions placed on Afghan women are not sufficient to reverse the “huge step backwards” for their...
Air India fined over passenger’s mid-air urination scandal
AFP :Air India has been fined $37,000 for its handling of an incident in which a drunk senior US bank executive was accused of urinating...
No direct armed forces involvement in Brazil riots: minister
AFP :Brazil’s Defense Minister Jose Mucio acknowledged on Friday that the armed forces were not directly involved in riots in Brasilia earlier this month when...
Ukraine should focus on preparing offensive, not Bakhmut battle
AFP :Ukraine should not fixate on defending the city of Bakhmut at all costs and instead use a window of opportunity to prepare a major...
Tear gas fired at Peru protesters as thousands try to ‘take Lima’
Al Jazeera :Firefighters have been working to put out a raging inferno that broke out in a building near a protest site in Peru’s capital...
South Korea slum fire: Hundreds evacuated in Seoul
BBC Online :Hundreds of people have had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a shanty town in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.Roughly 60...
Exhausted and struggling to pay bills, British nurses go on strike
Reuters :Tens of thousands of nurses across England walked out of hospitals on Wednesday, on strike over low pay that they say leaves them struggling...