Last rallies held in Lagos ahead of Nigeria presidential election | Elections News
Lagos, Nigeria – Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is seen as the presidential candidate to beat in Nigeria’s elections on Saturday, has held his final rally…
US Supreme Court hears arguments in internet legal immunity case | Courts News
Justices at the United States Supreme Court have expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wide array of…
Four-day workweek trial in UK: Shorter hours, happier employees | Business and Economy News
Findings show companies’ reported revenue largely stayed the same, or even rose, over the June to December trial period. A trial of a four-day workweek…
US home sales drop to more than 12-year low in January | Business and Economy News
January marked the 12th straight monthly decline in sales of existing homes, the longest such stretch since 1999. United States existing home sales dropped to…
Death toll from flooding in Brazil rises to 44 | Floods News
Rescue work continues after a torrential downpour brought flooding and landslides to coastal area of Sao Paulo state. The number of people killed by flooding…
Three UN peacekeepers killed by roadside bomb in Mali | News
Five soldiers serving in world’s deadliest UN mission seriously wounded when convoy hits an improvised explosive device. At least three United Nations peacekeepers have been…
UN urges Israel to ‘pause’ controversial legislative overhaul | Benjamin Netanyahu News
World body’s human rights chief expresses concern that changes would risk the effectiveness of the judiciary to defend the rule of law and human rights.…
Pakistan’s president slammed for declaring poll date in provinces | Elections News
Islamabad, Pakistan – Yet another political crisis is brewing in Pakistan after President Arif Alvi bypassed the country’s election commission and unilaterally announced election dates…
Iranian-German man sentenced to death on ‘terrorism’ charges | Death Penalty News
Iran says Jamshid Sharmahd masterminded a bombing that killed 14 people, something his family denies. Tehran, Iran – Iranian-German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd has been sentenced…
After Sturgeon, what remains of Scotland’s independence bid? | News
Glasgow, Scotland – If a politician’s international relevance is measured by the scale of the global reaction to his or her resignation from high office,…
Plane, motorcade, train: How Joe Biden got to Kyiv in secret | Russia-Ukraine war News
President Joe Biden’s surprise visit Monday morning to wartime Kyiv began in the dead of night at a military airport hangar outside Washington, DC. At…
Putin rages against West in speech decried as absurd propaganda | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a combative state-of-the nation speech, blaming the West for the war in Ukraine ahead of the first anniversary of…
Panic injures many as traumatised Syria hit by new earthquakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Fear and panic caused the most injuries in northwest Syria when two new earthquakes hit on Monday evening, just two weeks after the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude…
Survivors in Turkey say ‘new normal’ is coping with more quakes | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
Gaziantep, Turkey – The possibility of life going back to normal in southern Turkey was shattered after a magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattled the Turkey-Syria border…
Turkey’s ‘aid diplomacy’ reverberates in global quake response | Turkey-Syria Earthquake News
For years, Turkey has pursued an approach that stresses international aid and development after what the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) articulated in…
Putin’s state of the nation speech: What exactly did he say? | Russia-Ukraine war News
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has delivered a state of the nation speech in the Russian capital, Moscow, assessing the invasion of Ukraine he ordered a…
Russian economy shrank 2.1% in 2022, much less than expected | Russia-Ukraine war News
The economy defied fears of a recession and previous predictions that it would contract by more than 12 percent. Russia’s economy contracted by 2.1 percent…
Ukrainian army medics fight to save lives near front line | Russia-Ukraine war News
In a dingy medical outpost near eastern Ukraine’s front lines, army medic Viktor battles to save lives every day. Nearly a year into Russia’s invasion, fighting…
Brazil hit by deadly floods and landslides | Floods News
Hundreds of rescuers searched on Monday for survivors of landslides and flooding that killed at least 40 people along the coast of Brazil’s southern state…
S Korea court landmark ruling recognises same-sex couple’s rights | Gender Equity News
Court rules that So Seong-wook and Kim Yong-min should be treated the same as a heterosexual couple by state insurer. A South Korean court has…