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,...
International
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...
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...
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...