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...
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India proposes sweeping overhaul of British-era criminal laws
AFP :India’s government unveiled new punishments for mob lynchings and crimes against women on Friday in a proposal for the country’s biggest criminal justice overhaul...
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...
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...
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...
Pakistan court rejects jailed Imran Khan’s plea to suspend conviction
Reuters :A Pakistani high court on Wednesday turned down an appeal by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan that his conviction on corruption charges be...
Nine dead, two missing after fire at holiday home for disabled people in France
Reuters :Nine bodies were found in the smouldering ruins of a holiday home housing disabled people that caught fire in the early hours of Wednesday...
Five people killed in Cape Town taxi strike violence
BBC Online :Five people have died in violent protests relating to a taxi strike in Cape Town, South Africa, officials say. The victims include a...
