Biden to visit Saudi Arabia: Reports
BSS/AFP :US President Joe Biden will visit Saudi Arabia this month, reports said Thursday, a stark reversal for a leader who once called for the...
International
Turkey officially changes name at UN to ‘Turkiye’
BSS/AFP :Turkey has told the United Nations that, at the behest of its president, it wishes from now on to be called “Turkiye” in all...
Ukraine war ‘will have no winner,’ UN says on 100th day of fight
BSS/AFP :The United Nations said on Friday there would be no victor from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the conflict entered its 100th day and...
Fugitive shot dead after allegedly killing Texas family: Sheriff
BSS/AFP :Texas law enforcement officers have shot dead a convicted murderer who escaped prison and was suspected of killing a family close to his last...
Zelensky says ‘victory will be ours’ on day 100 of Russian invasion
BSS/AFP :Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday his country’s military would fend off the Russian invasion in a video marking 100 days of Moscow’s all-out...
Football legend Pele tells Putin: ‘stop the invasion’
BSS/AFP :Brazilian football legend Pele called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his army’s invasion of Ukraine, as the war-torn country’s national team was...
Positive’ signs on down-to-the-wire Yemen truce talks: UN
BSS/AFP :The United Nations has reported “positive” signs for renewing a truce that has eased suffering in war-torn Yemen, though there was no concrete breakthrough...
Papua New Guinea’s Ulawun volcano erupts
BSS/AFP :The Mount Ulawun volcano in northeastern Papua New Guinea erupted early Thursday, spewing ash highinto the air before easing with no injuries reported.The country’s...
Shanghai eases Covid curbs in step towards ending lockdown
BSS/AFP :Shanghai eased a range of Covid-19 restrictions on Wednesday in a step towards returning to normal after a two- month lockdown that confined residents...
100 dead in torrential rains in Brazil
BSS :The death toll from torrential rains that triggered floods and landslides in northeastern Brazil has risen to 100, officials said Tuesday, as emergency workers...
Palestinian woman with knife killed after approaching Israel soldier
BSS :Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian woman after she approached a soldier with a knife in the southern West Bank, the army said on...
First funerals after Texas school shooting
BSS/AFP :The traumatized Texas town of Uvalde began on Tuesday laying to rest the 19 young children killed in an elementary school shooting that left...