Browsing: World News

Arab News says Angry citizens on Wednesday stormed bakeries and pastry shops in Lebanon as the country’s food crisis deepened.

Arab News says Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators, most of them followers of the Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr, have stormed the parliament building in Baghdad.

TRT World says US authorities indicted the 21-year-old man accused of carrying out a deadly mass shooting at a July 4 parade near Chicago on 117 counts of murder and other charges, according to an official statement.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s speech regarding the ‘mixing’ of European and non-Europeans drew international criticism, and now one of his long-time advisers has resigned over the speech.

France24 says In the scorching heat, Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain.

Aljazeera says An earthquake has hit the northern Philippines, shattering windows at its epicentre and causing high-rise towers to shake more than 400km (249 miles) away in the capital Manila.

TRT World says Donald Trump has returned to Washington for the first time since leaving the White House 18 months ago, delivering a fiery speech sprinkled with strong hints he may run for president again in 2024.

VOA says The trial of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner resumed Tuesday in a Russian courtroom.

The average life expectancy in Germany dropped between 2019 and 2021 according to the national statistics office, a change that it attributes to the unusually high number of deaths during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“I am deeply sorry,” Pope Francis historically said on Monday, as he issued an apology for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of indigenous residential schools.

France24 says About 1,700 people had been infected with monkeypox in France, Health Minister François Braun said on Monday.

Euronews says Russia’s top diplomat said Moscow’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to remove from power its “unacceptable regime.”

Aljazeera says Japan has executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008.

One of California’s biggest wildfires this year exploded to over 21 square miles Sunday, forcing thousands to flee remote mountain communities.

Travellers again stuck in broken Thalys train without aircon, 86 migrants found crammed into truck in North Macedonia.

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has sparked outrage after attacking the ‘mixing’ of European and non-European races in a recent speech made in Băile Tușnad.

Authorities have found 86 migrants, including children, in a truck with an attached trailer in the southern part of North Macedonia.

France24 says PRESIDENT MACRON on Monday begins a three-nation tour of western African states in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent.

Euronews says FIERCE wildfires are sweeping through the north, south and east of Greece on Sunday, as a scorching heatwave boils the country.

Aljazeera says IRAN says its intelligence forces have arrested suspected members of an Israeli cell hours before they were allegedly planning to carry out a major “terrorist” bombing operation.

TRT World says A FIERCE California wildfire has expanded burning several thousand acres and forcing evacuations, as tens of millions of Americans sweltered through scorching heat.

President Biden’s embarrassing trip to Saudi Arabia, Jlo’s wedding and US accused of being ‘maker of security risks.’

Should Shinzo Abe have a state funeral? As the government pushes forward with plans for such a funeral to honour Japan’s longest-serving prime minister, opposition grows over costs amid reminders that Abe was a divisive figure in the country.

Italy’s president has announced the country will hold early elections in September following Mario Draghi’s resignation as prime minister from the country. 

France24 says Sri Lankan security forces raided a protest camp occupying government grounds in the main city of Colombo early on Friday and cleared out a section of it, a sign that the country’s new president was cracking down a day after his swearing-in.