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...
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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...
Jacinda Ardern leaves a legacy forged from crisis
AFP :Jacinda Ardern promised “relentless positivity” as New Zealand’s prime minister, but in announcing her shock resignation on Thursday admitted the unrelenting demands of the...
Biden says Ukraine helicopter crash a ‘heartbreaking tragedy’
AFP :President Joe Biden offered condolences to the families of the more than a dozen people killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv on Wednesday,...
Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion
AFP :A court in the Philippines on Wednesday acquitted Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa of four tax evasion charges, alongside her online government-critical news site Rappler.Ressa...
World’s oldest known person dies aged 118
AFP :The world’s oldest known person, French nun Lucile Randon, has died aged 118, a spokesman told AFP on Tuesday.Randon, known as Sister Andre, was...
Pakistan regional assembly dissolved on Imran Khan’s orders
AFP :The provincial assembly in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was dissolved on Wednesday, the second regional government to be brought down by former prime minister...
Vietnam president resigns amid major anti-graft purge
AFP :Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has resigned, state media said Tuesday, after days of rumours he was about to be sacked as part of...
After 30 years, Italy arrests mafia boss Messina Denaro at Sicilian hospital
Reuters :Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested by armed police at a private hospital in Sicily on Monday, where the man...
Pakistan PM Sharif offers talks with arch-rival India
Reuters:Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has offered his Indian counterpart talks over all outstanding issues, including disputed Kashmir, which he believes could be facilitated by...