20 dead after bus plunges off cliff in Bolivia
AFP :Twenty people died and more than a dozen were injured when a passenger bus fell off a cliff in central Bolivia on Tuesday, police...
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Moscow, pledging retaliation, calls US sanctions ‘anti-Russian lunge’
Reuters :Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said late on Tuesday that new sanctions imposed by the United States were evidence of a “hostile anti-Russian lunge”...
Afghans in shock after 3 female media workers killed
AFP :Outrage rippled through Afghanistan on Wednesday as funerals were held for three female media workers gunned down in the eastern city of Jalalabad, with...
6 killed as Myanmar security forces fire at protesters
At least six people were killed as Myanmar security forces fired on protesters on Wednesday (Mar 3), medics say. This comes after the junta hit...
279 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls released
Reuters :Gunmen have freed all 279 girls kidnapped from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, the governor in Zamfara state said on Tuesday.According to earlier...
Trump, Melania received Covid-19 vaccine before leaving White House
AFP :Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were vaccinated against the coronavirus in January before leaving the White House, an advisor to the former president...
CO2 pollution bounces back, climate goals at risk
AFP :Global CO2 emissions have returned to pre-pandemic levels and then some, threatening to put climate treaty targets for capping global warming out of each,...
Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano spreads ash into sky
AFP, Indonesia: Mount Sinabung in Indonesia erupted on Tuesday morning, spreading a massive column of smoke and ash up to 5,000 meters (16,400 feet) into...
Yemen donor conference seeks $3.85bn to prevent famine
AFP :The United Nations said it hopes to raise $3.85 billion on Monday to prevent large-scale famine in Yemen, warning that life in the war-ravaged...
Argentine titanosaur may be oldest yet
AFP :A colossal dinosaur dug up in Argentina could be the oldest titanosaur ever found, having roamed what is now Patagonia some 140 million years...
Ex-president Sarkozy faces verdict in graft trial
AFPA French court is to hand down its verdict in the corruption trial of former president Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday, with prosecutors demanding prison time...
India urged to provide refuge to Rohingya adrift at sea
Reuters :Human Rights Watch and Rohingya Muslim refugees in India urged the government on Monday to provide refuge to 81 Rohingya people whose boat has...