Browsing: World News

The Sun says AT least two people are dead and eight have been injured after a shooting in Chicago.

The Guardian says experts have questioned North Korea’s claim that it is achieving “good results” in its battle against a Covid-19 outbreak, as the number of people with symptoms of the virus surpassed 2 million.

Aljazeera says like no other country, North Korea could do with help against COVID-19. The popularion is unvaccinated and susceptible to disease due to chronic malnourishment

New York Times says the Oklahoma Legislature gave final approval on Thursday to a bill that prohibits nearly all abortions starting at fertilization, which would make it the nation’s strictest abortion law.

The Metro says George W Bush accidentally called the Iraq invasion ‘brutal’ and ‘unjustified’ in a very unfortunate ‘Freudian slip’.

The Guardian says New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern says she has lost her sense of taste after testing positive for Covid-19 on Saturday.

France24 says several southern French towns sizzled in record high temperatures for May on Wednesday, while the month as whole is on track to be the hottest since records began.

Arab News says the UN warned that a growing global food crisis could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced $12B to mitigate its “devastating effects.”

VOA says millions of U.S. voters are casting ballots in state primary races to determine which candidates face off in November’s midterm elections.

Daily Mirror says the first Russian soldier on trial for war crimes in Ukraine has pleaded guilty.

Daily Mirror says A brave schoolgirl told how she hid in a milk fridge when a white supremacist opened fire at a US supermarket.

The Metro says the US reached the unimaginable milestone of one million Covid-19 deaths on Tuesday, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

Sky News says the crash of a China Eastern Airlines jet might have been deliberate, according to a US report.

Euronews says the first war crimes trial since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, against a Russian soldier accused of killing an unarmed civilian, gets underway in Kyiv on Wednesday.

TRT World says Joe Biden has condemned the “poison” of white supremacy and said the nation must “reject the lie” of the racist “replacement theory”.

Aljazeera says a fatal shooting at a church in California, which authorities said was motivated by the gunman’s hatred for Taiwan, has left residents of the self-governed island stunned.

The Sun says A BRITISH couple have been left stranded in Spain after cops claimed their UK driver’s licence wasn’t valid and clamped their campervan on the side of the road.

The Independent says Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has poured cold water on Sweden and Finland’s “historic” announcements that they will to apply to join Nato.

The Guardian says Japan will start conducting “test tourism” in the form of limited package tours in May ahead of a full reopening to tourism.

Euronews says Centrist politician Elisabeth Borne was appointed France’s new prime minister on Monday to become the second woman to hold the post in the country.

France24 says Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders, two years after they were shut due to Covid restrictions and a major diplomatic row.

Arab News says Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it was working to evacuate all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol.

TRT World says the Buffalo killer followed an insidious racist creed gaining ground among white Americans that minorities are taking over society, according to his manifesto.

Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN has been left red-faced again as a rocket launch that blasted a satellite into orbit has reportedly failed, with the probe tipped to fall back down to Earth.

Daily Express says RUSSIAN frontline soldiers were left stunned after their commander sent them six litres of vodka instead of the reinforcements they had requested.