Russia ‘bound to lose’

Kyiv yesterday said that the massive new weapons package from Germany was another sign that Russia would lose in its war against Ukraine.
13 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Three Iran protesters at risk of ‘imminent’ execution: Amnesty

Three men sentenced to death in Iran over protests that erupted last year are at imminent risk of execution after the supreme court upheld their sentences, Amnesty International warned yesterday.
12 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Ukraine claims gains around Bakhmut

Ukraine said yesterday that its forces had recaptured chunks of territory around the embattled city of Bakhmut in the eastern Donetsk region, which has been the epicentre of fighting with Russia for months.
12 May 2023, 18:00 PM

French court upholds universal jurisdiction principle

France’s highest court yesterday ruled that the country could try foreign suspects under the universal jurisdiction principle, greenlighting inquiries into two Syrians accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
12 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Sudan Conflict: Pressure needed to halt fighting

The UN rights chief yesterday called on the international community to exert all possible pressure on the fighting sides in Sudan to resolve the conflict and end “the wanton violence”.
11 May 2023, 18:00 PM

27 injured, mostly children, as Finland footbridge collapses

Around 27 people, a majority of them children, were injured today when a pedestrian bridge collapsed in the Finnish city of Espoo, just outside the country's capital, a spokesperson for the Helsinki regional rescue service said..Many of the injured were part of a group of school children,
11 May 2023, 08:35 AM

Top court orders French govt to take more climate steps

France’s top administrative court yesterday ordered the government for a second time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within a year, in a case brought by a town threatened by rising sea levels.
10 May 2023, 18:00 PM

World at ‘turning point’

President Vladimir Putin yesterday vowed Russia’s military would be victorious in Ukraine and blamed Western countries for the conflict, comparing the fighting to World War II during a military parade on Red Square.
9 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Mexican authorities rescue 113

Authorities in northwest Mexico rescued 113 kidnapped migrants of different nationalities from a building along the border with the United States, the state prosecutor’s office said.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

8 killed by gunman at Texas mall

A gunman shot and killed eight people and wounded at least seven others at a busy mall north of Dallas on Saturday, police said.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

14m watched coronation of King Charles III: BBC

More than 14 million people tuned in to watch King Charles III’s coronation on BBC television, the corporation said yesterday.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Moscow promised more ammo

Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said yesterday he had received “a promise” of more ammunition from the Russian army, after he threatened to pull his frontline Wagner troops out of Bakhmut.
7 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Charles III is crowned

Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms yesterday at Britain’s first coronation for 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and spectacle.
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Protests, support as Charles III coronated in UK

Thousands of people turned central London red, white and blue yesterday, with a sea of Union Jack flags lining the streets for the coronation of King Charles III.
6 May 2023, 18:00 PM

PM to attend Commonwealth summit this afternoon

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting -- a biennial summit of governmental leaders from all Commonwealth nations -- today
5 May 2023, 06:45 AM

8 killed in another Serbian shooting

Eight people were killed and at least 10 were wounded in a shooting in the town of Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, local media reported, with police setting up roadblocks in their hunt for the gunman..The shooting comes less than 48 hours after a 13-year old boy shot dead nine and injured s
5 May 2023, 04:38 AM

UK’s Sunak warns of ‘hard’ test in first date with voters

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives yesterday braced for heavy losses in their first major electoral test since he became the UK’s third leader in the space of a few chaotic weeks last year.
4 May 2023, 18:00 PM

258m needed urgent food aid in 2022: UN

Some 258 million people needed emergency food aid last year because of conflict, economic shocks and climate disasters, a UN report said yesterday, a sharp rise from 193 million the previous year.
3 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Tech industry allowing ‘deluge’ of misinfo: RSF

Journalism is being battered by propaganda and increasingly sophisticated fakes, aided by AI software and a failure of oversight from tech companies, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said yesterday.
3 May 2023, 18:00 PM

Boy shoots dead 9 in Belgrade classroom

A 14-year-old boy shot his teacher in a Belgrade classroom this morning before opening fire on other students and security guards, killing eight pupils and a security guard, Serbia's interior ministry said..Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementa
3 May 2023, 09:53 AM