Category: World

British judge Nicholas Phillips has stepped down from Hong Kong’s top appeals court, the fourth overseas judge to leave the city’s judiciary this year. Phillips, [more…]

Japan’s incoming prime minister Shigeru Ishiba is poised to call a snap election for the end of the month, according to media reports, days after [more…]

More than 50 people are confirmed dead and almost 3.5 million are without power on Saturday, after strong winds and torrential rain from Hurricane Helene [more…]

Residents in south-western Mexico on Saturday evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing [more…]

Seventeen people, including 15 women, have been killed in two mass shootings that took place close to each other in a rural town in South [more…]

The army is to launch an inquiry into the behaviour of British troops posted to a military base in Kenya, after multiple allegations of serious [more…]

Argentina’s poverty rate has soared to almost 53% in the first six months of Javier Milei’s presidency, offering the first hard evidence of how the [more…]

A deal backed by leaders on both sides of Libya’s political divide to appoint a new central bank governor has the potential “to resolve all [more…]

Brazilians call overcast São Paulo their country’s “land of drizzle”. But in recent months it has been raining punches not precipitation as Latin America’s largest [more…]

On Monday, Hurricane John hit the southern Pacific coast of Mexico, having intensified from a tropical storm to a category 3 hurricane in less than [more…]