Russia says two crew members from US-seized tanker released
29 January 2026, 05:11 AM
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
Indigenous leaders push new target to protect Amazon from deforestation
Indigenous groups urged world leaders yesterday to back a new target to protect 80% of the Amazon basin by 2025, saying bold action was needed to stop deforestation pushing the Earth’s largest rainforest beyond a point of no return.
5 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Europe can no longer rely on US for protection
The challenges to security emerging from the upheaval in Afghanistan should be a wake-up call for the European Union, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said, urging the EU to be more ambitious on defence and on global leadership.
5 September 2021, 18:00 PM
NZ Covid outbreak claims first death in six months
New Zealand recorded its first Covid-related death in six months yesterday, but health authorities said there were signs the outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant was coming under control.
4 September 2021, 18:00 PM
New Zealand to criminalise terror attack planning
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern yesterday vowed to tighten counter-terrorism laws this month after a knife-wielding militant known to the authorities stabbed and wounded seven people in a supermarket.
4 September 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
476 - Romulus Augustus, the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed by Odoacer, a German barbarian who proclaims himself king of Italy.
3 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Quotes of the day
The sooner the Taliban will enter the family of civilised people, so to speak, the easier it will be to contact, communicate, and somehow influence and ask questions.
3 September 2021, 18:00 PM
New Zealand police kill 'extremist' who stabbed six in supermarket
New Zealand police on Friday shot and killed a knife-wielding "extremist" who was known to authorities, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, after he stabbed and wounded at least six people in a supermarket.
3 September 2021, 08:16 AM
This day in history
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed in Paris ends the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain and United States of America.
2 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Countries eye UN deal to rein in plastic pollution
The European Union and other countries yesterday called for negotiations towards a legally-binding agreement to reduce plastic pollution, including the microplastics infesting oceans and waterways.
2 September 2021, 18:00 PM
World’s biggest triceratops on sale in Paris
A Paris auction house will seek to sell in October the world’s biggest known example of the dinosaur triceratops, known as “Big John”, with the spectacular skeleton on show to the public beforehand, organisers said Tuesday.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
4.1b living without any social safety nets: UN
Over half of all people in the world have no social protections, the United Nations said yesterday, even after the pandemic spurred countries to offer more services to their populations.
1 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Russian cosmonauts find new cracks in ISS module
Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said yesterday, the latest in a series of setbacks.
30 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Teachers should be priority group for Covid jabs: WHO
Teachers and school staff should be among the groups prioritised for Covid-19 vaccinations so that schools in Europe and Central Asia can stay open, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef said yesterday.
30 August 2021, 18:00 PM
More News
Russia yesterday called on the United States to release Afghan central bank reserves that Washington blocked after the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul earlier this month.
30 August 2021, 18:00 PM
This day in history
1907 - The Anglo-Russian Convention was signed in St Petersburg, settling differences between Britain and Russia over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet.
30 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Canada polls show Trudeau rival gaining weeks ahead of vote
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party appears to be ceding popularity to its Conservative rivals, according to polls published Saturday, with early elections only weeks away.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Covid Pandemic: Delta doubles hospital risk
The Delta variant of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 doubles the risk of hospitalisation compared with the Alpha variant it has supplanted as the dominant strain worldwide, researchers reported in The Lancet on Saturday.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Quotes of the day
The risk now, as we have seen in Afghanistan, is that the impression is given that the west has conditional allies that they are abandoning when their agenda changes. This is not our case. France does not abandon those who fought alongside it.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Asleep on watch’
Prime Minister Boris Johnson defended Britain’s airlift from Kabul yesterday following growing criticism that ministers had been “asleep on watch”, potentially leaving thousands of eligible Afghans behind in the country.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM
France, UK to push for Kabul safe zone
France and Britain will submit a resolution to an emergency United Nations meeting due today proposing a safe zone in Kabul to try and protect people trying to leave Afghanistan, French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday.
29 August 2021, 18:00 PM