Category: World
‘Fact-finding’ mission to look at $300,000 payout for Australian public servant after relationship declared
The Department of Parliamentary Services has ordered an independent “fact-finding” mission into the role its officials played in a $300,000 payout to a former deputy [more…]
New Queensland government bins Labor’s hydro project set to be key part of renewable transition
Queensland’s new Liberal National party government has cancelled a Labor hydro project despite public service advice that a downsized version of the scheme would have [more…]
Robot retrieves radioactive fuel sample from Fukushima nuclear reactor site
A piece of the radioactive fuel left from the meltdown of Japan’s tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been retrieved from the site using [more…]
Death toll rises as protesters rage against Mozambique election result
Silvio Jeremias was on his way home from his job at a petrol station on the night of 25 October, in Mozambique’s capital Maputo, when [more…]
Karaoke and Kong-rey: Taiwan sings through biggest typhoon in decades
The winds of typhoon Kong-rey howled through the streets of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, on Thursday afternoon. Meanwhile, inside a brick and glass building people [more…]
Supporters of Bolivian ex-president Evo Morales take about 20 soldiers hostage
Supporters of Bolivia’s ex-president Evo Morales stormed a barracks in the central Chapare region and took about 20 soldiers hostage, military sources said on Friday, [more…]
Botswana president concedes defeat in election after party’s six-decade rule
Botswana’s president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has conceded defeat in Wednesday’s elections, which his Botswana Democratic party lost by a landslide after nearly six decades in power. [more…]
Weather tracker: More rain forecast in Spain as storms push in
The low-pressure system responsible for Spain’s most devastating floods in decades in Valencia also set new rainfall records across south-eastern Spain. In Jerez de la [more…]
Not one government has paid into fund for victims of Uganda warlord, says ICC
Not a single country has contributed towards reparations for the victims and survivors of the Ugandan warlord Dominic Ongwen, despite the international criminal court awarding [more…]
Marielle Franco murder: ex-police jailed for decades over crime that shook Brazil
Two former police officers who confessed to the murder of the Rio city councillor Marielle Franco have been sentenced to decades in prison for their [more…]
