Quebec ice storm leaves two dead, million without power
AFP :An ice storm that battered eastern Canada left two dead and some million people without electricity on Thursday, as fallen trees blocked roads and...
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Indian editors decry govt move to police online news
Reuters :The Editors Guild of India is deeply disturbed by the government’s move to police news on social media through a self-appointed fact-checking unit, the...
Two women killed in West Bank shooting
AFP :Two Israeli women were killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank on Friday, just hours after Israel bombarded Gaza and Lebanon following...
Seoul warns N. Korea to stop unauthorised use of factory complex
AFP : South Korea warned Thursday it will take “necessary steps” if Pyongyang continues its unauthorised use of a joint industrial complex in the North...
Saudi Arabia and Iran agree to reopen diplomatic missions
AP : Saudi Arabia and Iran on Thursday announced an agreement to resume diplomatic ties and reopen missions in their capitals, taking another step toward...
Ukraine pushes for western warplane coalition
Reuters : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv, as his fighters continued...
Migrant dreams turn to tragedy for Mexico fire victims
AFP :Francisco Rojche left his Guatemalan town, its dirt roads and sugarcane plantations in search of better opportunities in the United States. But the dream...
Jacinda Ardern delivers final speech to NZ parliament
AFP :Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bowed out of parliament Wednesday, ending a career marked by empathetic leadership during times of crisis even...
US urges Iran to back political solution in Yemen
AFP :The United States called Tuesday on its longtime adversary Iran to help end Yemen’s conflict by backing a peace process, one year after a...
Japan govt survey finds 1.5 million living as recluses
AFP :Japan are social recluses, according to a new government survey, with a fifth citing the Covid-19 pandemic as the main reason for their withdrawal.The...
One dead, several injured in Dutch passenger train accident
Deutsche Welle :One person has been reported dead and several “seriously injured” on Tuesday after a passenger train derailed in a collision with construction equipment...
Deep-sea mining vital to climate action, deadly to oceans
Deutsche Welle :In the mid-nineteenth century, science fiction author Jules Verne wrote of precious metals lying thousands of meters underwater. “In the depths of the...