Category: World
Haiti appoints new prime minister as security crisis mounts
Haiti’s transitional presidential council has appointed the entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the new prime minister, according to the official gazette [more…]
Japan’s parliament re-elects PM Shigeru Ishiba despite bruising election result
Japan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election loss in more than a decade. Ishiba’s [more…]
Police in Antigua charge suspect over fatal stabbing of politician
Antigua police have charged a man over the fatal stabbing of a member of parliament in his seaside home. Police on the Caribbean island charged [more…]
Prince William says he wants to carry out duties with a smaller ‘r’ in the ‘royal’
Prince William has said he wants the monarchy to evolve and for him to carry out his duties with a “smaller r in the royal”. [more…]
Burkina Faso wants to reinstate death penalty, government source says
Burkina Faso’s military regime wants to reinstate the death penalty after the west African country abolished it in 2018, a government source told Agence France-Presse [more…]
North Korea accused of GPS jamming attacks on South Korean ships and aircraft
North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, Seoul’s military said – an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian [more…]
Crypto businessman killed in apparent assassination at São Paulo airport
A Brazilian businessman has been killed and three people injured in an apparent gangland assassination at São Paulo’s international airport in Guarulhos. The victims were [more…]
Canada braced for migrants as Trump reiterates mass deportation vow
Canada is bracing for a surge of migrants to its southern border after Donald Trump doubled down on his pledge to conduct the largest mass [more…]
Outrage against Canada’s Marineland theme park after fifth beluga dies
A fifth beluga has died at Canada’s Marineland, as questions mount over the future of both the controversial theme park and one of the world’s [more…]
‘Africa in a glass’: Abidjan cocktail week mixes local flavours for global palates
At an event in Abidjan in late October, Alexandre Quest Bede noticed someone staring at him. Then the stranger walked up to him with a [more…]