Category: World
Rescued elephants drown as heavy flooding hits Thai tourist hub Chiang Mai
Two elephants have drowned, while power was cut and hotels were forced to evacuate guests after the Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai was hit by [more…]
New Zealand navy ship Manawanui sinks off Samoa
A Royal New Zealand Navy vessel has run aground and sunk off Samoa – the first time the navy has lost a ship since the [more…]
Communist China not the motherland, says Taiwan’s president, because our republic is older
It is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become Taiwan’s motherland because Taiwan has older political roots, the island’s president has said. Lai [more…]
Democracy campaigners criticise President Saied as polls close in Tunisia
Polls have closed in Tunisia’s presidential election as the president, Kais Saied, seeks a second term, while his most prominent critics are in prison and [more…]
UK ‘resolutely committed’ to its overseas territories, says foreign minister
The UK is “resolutely committed” to all of its overseas territories, the responsible foreign minister said, after Argentina vowed to gain “full sovereignty” of the [more…]
Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe
Mass hunger and malnutrition. A looming nuclear winter. An existential threat to the Canadian way of life. For months, the country’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre [more…]
Mpox vaccination begins in DRC after 859 die this year
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have begun vaccination against mpox, nearly two months after the disease outbreak that spread to several [more…]
Arab spring dreams in ruins as Tunisia goes to polls against backdrop of repression
Tunisia will hold a presidential election on Sunday against the backdrop of a crackdown on dissent and human rights violations committed against undocumented migrants seeking [more…]
US supreme court will rule on $10bn suit Mexico filed against US gun makers
The US supreme court said on Friday it will decide whether to block a $10bn lawsuit Mexico filed against US gun manufacturers and distributors that [more…]
Starmer defends UK ceding control of Chagos Islands amid Tory criticism
Keir Starmer has defended giving up UK control of the Chagos Islands, as the decision has descended into a political blame game among Conservative leadership [more…]
