Reuters :Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday he would hand over power to whoever wins next year’s presidential election cleanly – but not if there is any fraud.His comments will do little to...
Reuters :Britain said on Friday it had received 6 million applications to its settlement scheme for European Union nationals before a June 30 deadline passed, including a surge of more than 400,000 in the...
Al Jazeera :Mourners in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, have gathered at a stadium for a state memorial service for Kenneth Kaunda, the nation’s founding president and supporter of African nationalism.A number of leaders from across...
Al Jazeera :Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeated his country’s support for the Chinese government regarding its policies in the Muslim-majority Xinjiang province, while also praising the country’s one-party system as offering a...
Reuters, Seoul :South Korean President Moon Jae-in exchanged letters exploring prospects for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ahead of his own meeting in May with U.S. President Joe Biden, the...
Al Jazeera :The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said it has intercepted and destroyed a bomb-laden drone fired by Houthi rebels towards the kingdom on Friday, the third such attack within 48 hours.A coalition statement,...
BBC Online :Hundreds of dead sea animals have washed up in Sri Lanka, weeks after a cargo ship carrying dangerous chemicals caught fire and sank.The X-Press Pearl sank in early June off the coast...
Reuters :US Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday imposed a moratorium on federal executions while the Justice Department continues its review of the death penalty, the department said in a statement.“The Department of Justice...
BBC Online :A prominent statue of Queen Victoria has been torn down by protesters in Canada as anger grows over the deaths of indigenous children at residential schools.The protesters cheered as the statue at...
Reuters :Hundreds of vaccinated foreign tourists arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Thursday, the first visitors to its beaches and golf courses under a pilot programme designed to revive a tourism...
Reuters :Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was confident Britons fully vaccinated against COVID-19 would be able to travel abroad this year.Britain permitted limited quarantine-free travel in May and June, and is...
The New York Times :Marking 100 years since the founding of the China’s Communist Party, Xi Jinping told an audience on Tiananmen Square that the party was the only force capable of ensuring the...
