Browsing: World News

The Independent says activist and member of the Russian band Pussy Riot has fled the country disguised as a food courier after criticising Vladimir Putin’s regime.

The Guardian says Beleaguered president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was set to name a new prime minister on Thursday to try to steer Sri Lanka out of its dire economic crisis after days of violence, officials said.

The Guardian says North Korea has declared a “severe national emergency” after confirming its first outbreak of Covid-19, prompting its leader, Kim Jong-un, to vow to quickly eliminate the virus.

The Guardian says Finland is expected to announce its intention to join Nato on Thursday with Sweden likely to follow soon after, diplomats and officials have said.

France24 says as global warming accelerates, the spectre of drought haunts France’s once verdant farmland.

TRT World says a colleague of slain Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has told Anadolu Agency about his fellow journalist’s final moments before she was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid.

Cameroon plane disaster, A PLANE carrying 11 people onboard has reportedly crashed prompting emergency services to desperately launch a hunt for survivors, reports state.

From next week facemasks will no longer be mandatory in airports and on flights in Europe.

The Metro says a Russian oligarch died after ‘shamans’ treated him with toad venom to cure his hangover, according to reports.

The Independent says an Al Jazeera correspondent has been shot dead by Israeli forces while covering a raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, her broadcaster said.

Urgent WW3 warning as VLADIMIR PUTIN’s “erratic behaviour” could mean the Russian leader is “ready to push” the war in Ukraine further west on the continent, a leading psychologist has told Express.co.uk.

VLADIMIR PUTIN repairing old ships that haven’t moved in years to fill holes in his fleet.

BBC News says Boris Johnson will visit Sweden and Finland to discuss the war in Ukraine, amid debate within both nations about whether to join the Nato alliance.

France24 says Ecuadoran police on Tuesday said 200 convicts who escaped following a deadly prison riot have been recaptured in 24 hours, with 20 still at large.

Euronews says Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s ban of former US president Donald Trump.

TRT World says California’s drought is worsening and yet new figures show last March had the highest water use for that month since 2015 while residents defied pleas for conservation.

The Metro says the US could experience 100million coronavirus infections this fall and winter, as well as a wave of deaths, the Biden administration has warned.

The Independent says Democrats in many parts of the country are facing a potentially grim political year, but in California no one is talking about the liberal stronghold changing direction.

The Guardian says Sri Lanka has deployed thousands of troops and police to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence in weeks of protests over an unprecedented economic crisis.

The Guardian says the capture of a former Alabama jail official, along with a murder suspect she allegedly helped escape from custody, ended in tragedy on Monday when the jail official, Vicky White, fatally shot herself after a police chase.

France24 says Ferdinand Marcos Jr, whose dictator father and namesake plundered and brutalised the Philippines for decades, on Tuesday won a historic election victory.

Euronews says at least one person has died and several others have been injured after two train carriages derailed and overturned near Vienna.

Arab News says Israeli PM Naftali Bennett’s statements rejecting outside interference in the management of the affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque sparked outrage among Jordanians and Palestinians.

Aljazeera says the United States has charged a former Haitian senator in relation to the assassination of the country’s President Jovenel Moise in July last year, the Justice Department announced.

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