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Europe
Spain to regularise 500,000 undocumented migrants: Minister
27 January 2026, 15:24 PM
Europe
US withdraws from WHO
24 January 2026, 02:38 AM
EU chief vows 'massive' Greenland investments
20 January 2026, 18:43 PM
World
Russia hits energy system in 5 regions of Ukraine
20 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Avoid Iranian airspace
18 January 2026, 00:00 AM
US approves $1.5bn deal for Peru naval base
17 January 2026, 00:00 AM
UK govt retreats on mandatory digital ID to work
15 January 2026, 04:34 AM
kill two near Russian border
15 January 2026, 00:00 AM
Trump says US will deal with Greenland 'easy way' or 'hard way'
10 January 2026, 09:17 AM
West accuses Belarus of orchestrating crisis
Poland yesterday said it had seen a surge in attempts to breach its border and had pushed back hundreds of migrants to Belarus, after it accused Minsk and Moscow of trying to orchestrate a crisis on Europe’s borders.
10 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Blow as Google loses appeal
Google yesterday lost an appeal against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.8-billion) fine imposed by the European Union for abusing its search engine dominance -- a big win for the bloc’s anti-trust tussle with the tech titan.
10 November 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We’ve already run out of time’
In the six years since the Paris Agreement on climate change was adopted in 2015, Madagascar has had only one decent rainy season, leaving more than a million people severely hungry in the southeast African island nation.
10 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Russia fires prison officials after torture videos leaked
Russia’s prison service yesterday said it had dismissed 18 officials after a whistleblower leaked videos of rape and torture inside its facilities.
10 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Not even on official negotiation agenda
When countries first signed up to the COP negotiations process more than 30 years ago, climate change was viewed as a future problem.
9 November 2021, 18:00 PM
45m people on edge of famine
The UN’s food agency said yesterday the number of people on the edge of famine in 43 countries had risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world.
8 November 2021, 18:00 PM
French school children mask up again
Schoolchildren in large parts of France were ordered yesterday to again wear face masks in class, less than a month after being allowed to remove them, as the country tries to tamp down a surge in Covid cases.
8 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Climate on track to devastate world’s poorest economies
The 65 most vulnerable nations will see GDP drop 20 percent on average by 2050 and 64 percent by 2100 if the world heats up 2.9 degrees Celsius, according to a report released yesterday at the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow.
8 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Migrants trying to cross border: Poland blames Belarus
Poland accused Belarus of trying to spark a major confrontation on Monday as video clips showed hundreds of migrants walking towards the Polish border and some trying to breach the fence using spades and other implements.
8 November 2021, 16:34 PM
Decades of child abuse: France's bishops kneel in penance
Senior members of France's Catholic hierarchy knelt in a show of penance at the shrine of Lourdes on Saturday (Nov 6), a day after bishops accepted the church's responsibility for decades of child abuse.
7 November 2021, 08:56 AM
Slave room found at Pompeii
Pompeii archaeologists yesterday said they have unearthed the remains of a “slave room” in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption nearly 2,000 years ago.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
US offers up to $5m reward for tips to help capture Mexican drug kingpins
The US State Department announced Friday it would offer up to $5 million each for information that would help authorities capture and convict four Mexican drug cartel kingpins, including the brother of infamous trafficker “El Chapo.”
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Passengers run off after plane makes emergency landing in Spain
One of Spain’s busiest airports, Palma de Mallorca, was forced to close for nearly four hours after several passengers ran off when their plane made an emergency landing, according to airport authorities.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Sacrifice’ to save Ethiopia
Ethiopia must be ready to make “sacrifices” to “salvage” the country, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said yesterday, as fighting in the north intensifies between government forces and Tigrayan rebels who threaten to advance on the capital.
6 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Several wounded in knife attack on train in German
Several people were injured in a knife attack on an express train between the south German cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg on Saturday and a male suspect has been arrested, police said.
6 November 2021, 16:12 PM
Portugal’s president calls early election by January 2022
Portugal is in the midst of a political crisis over the proposed national budget for 2022, with early elections expected in January.
6 November 2021, 16:07 PM
Man who fell to death from Russian embassy in Berlin was a spy, claims German security services
German security services believe that a man found dead in a street outside the Russian Embassy in Berlin last month was an undercover agent of Russia's FSB intelligence service, Der Spiegel reported on Friday.
5 November 2021, 19:32 PM
Debates spark in Poland over woman's death post abortion ban
The death of a pregnant Polish woman has reignited debate over abortion in one of Europe's most devoutly Catholic countries, with activists saying she could still be alive if it were not for a near total ban on terminating pregnancies.
5 November 2021, 19:15 PM
Richest 1 percent put climate goals at risk: study
The carbon footprint of the world’s richest 1 percent is on track to be 30 times higher than what’s needed to limit global warming to 1.5C, a study says.
5 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Progress made, but not enough
With science warning that only swift action can avoid cataclysmic global warming, countries already feeling the lash of climate change are demanding that the timetable for updating national carbon-cutting pledges be radically accelerated.
5 November 2021, 18:00 PM