On Saturday, the Taliban issued a warning to Pakistan after five children and a woman were killed in Afghanistan by alleged Pakistani military rocket fire in a pre-dawn border assault. Pakistan-Afghanistan border tensions have escalated since the Taliban took power last year, with Islamabad accusing militant organizations of attacking from Afghan soil. The Taliban … Read more
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported Saturday that six individuals were found dead and 29 were missing and believed to have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya. “A small wooden boat carrying around 35 migrants capsized off Sabratha, #Libya yesterday,” the IOM tweeted. “The bodies of six people have … Read more
President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that the elimination of the last Ukrainian forces stuck in the besieged port of Mariupol will put a stop to discussions with Moscow. “The elimination of our troops, of our men (in Mariupol) will put an end to any negotiations” between Ukraine and Russia, Zelensky said in an interview … Read more
The UK’s health regulator said on Thursday that Valneva’s, an Austrian-French drug maker, had received approval for a novel coronavirus vaccine. “An approval has been granted after the Valneva’s Covid-19 vaccine was found to meet the required safety, quality and effectiveness standards,” the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said in a statement. Last … Read more
Astronomers have discovered a strong radio wave laser in space known as a megamaser. At 5 billion light-years from Earth, this record-breaking megamaser is the furthest one ever seen. This space laser’s light travelled a staggering 36 trillion billion miles (58 trillion billion kilometers) to reach our planet. Using the MeerKAT telescope at the … Read more
After her officials expressed concerns about value for money, Priti Patel had to personally approve a plan to relocate some asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. The home secretary gave an uncommon “ministerial direction” to push the plans through, implying that she is personally responsible for them. The Home Office has only … Read more
For hours on Friday morning, Palestinians and Israeli soldiers clashed in and around the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, before an uneasy calm returned later in the day. From before morning, videos published on social media showed major turmoil and violence near the mosque’s gate, with Palestinians throwing stones and firecrackers and Israeli … Read more
According to a BBC investigation, a cluster bomb, which is banned by several countries under international law, was used in an attack on the Kramatorsk railway station in Ukraine. These weapons fire a payload of bomblets that disperse and explode across a large region. On April 9, a missile attacked the station, which was crowded … Read more
The government of South Africa has declared a disaster in an area in the country’s east that has been ravaged by severe flooding over the past week, killing around 400 people and destroying homes and businesses. The majority of the damage has occurred in KwaZulu-Natal province’s Durban area, the country’s third most populated metropolis. President … Read more
Russia has barred Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several senior ministers from entering the country because of the United Kingdom’s “hostile” attitude on the Ukraine conflict. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, and ten other senior politicians, most of whom are Cabinet members, have also been forbidden from attending. Moscow claimed … Read more
Clive Palmer, the leader of the United Australia Party, is recovering after a serious fall from a stage while preparing for his campaign launch event. After slipping and landing hard while rehearsing the campaign launch at his Coolum resort on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast on Friday, the 68-year-old billionaire mining tycoon was left with a terrible … Read more
After a long-delayed and turbulent voting process characterized by fatal violence and a power struggle between the country’s top leaders, Somalia’s newly elected parliamentarians were sworn in on Thursday. Nearly 300 members of parliament from the lower and upper houses took the oath of office in a ceremony held inside the tightly secured airport … Read more
European countries that continue to buy Russian oil, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, are “earning their money in other people’s blood.” President Zelensky singled out Germany and Hungary in an interview with the BBC, accusing them of obstructing efforts to impose an embargo on energy shipments, from which Russia stands to profit up … Read more
Michelin-starred chef Thitid “Ton” Tassanakajohn pours black caviar onto a platter at his posh Bangkok restaurant, adding the more inexpensive Thailand-made delicacy to his reinterpreted traditional family recipes. The luxury cuisine, which is more commonly associated with cold northern countries, is making inroads into the Southeast Asian country’s fine-dining scene, with the 37-year-old star … Read more
Some European countries’ reluctance to label Russian atrocities in Ukraine as “genocide” has exacerbated tensions with Kyiv, but the precise legal phrase to characterize the worst of all crimes has long been a matter of political debate. President Joe Biden of the United States declared last week that Russia’s actions against Ukrainians amounted to … Read more
A court determined on Thursday that the former model accused of attempting to assassinate Zimbabwe’s vice president forged marriage documents to formalize their eight-year relationship. Marry Mubaiwa, 40, was formerly a member of Zimbabwe’s upper crust, having married an international footballer before leaving to marry the country’s then-army chief, Constantino Chiwenga. Her star kept … Read more
Three Malaysian residents were caught by Dutch border police on Thursday for attempting to smuggle hundreds of thousands of baby eels through Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Officials got suspicious when the two men and a lady attempted to get through airport security with eight luggage bound for Malaysia through Portugal on Monday. “Inside the cases were … Read more
Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the dark world of the Sicilian Mafia through photographs of bullet-riddled victims, has died at the age of 87. In the 1980s, prize-winning Battaglia, who would ride her Vespa to the scene of killings to witness the bloodshed, swept away the romanticized and sanitized image of Cosa … Read more
