Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:09 AM
LONDON (AP): The UK Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing a legal challenge focusing on the definition of ‘woman’ in a long-running dispute between a women’s rights campaign group and the Scottish government. Five judges at Britain’s highest...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:09 AM
TORONTO (AP): Some Canadian officials on Tuesday blasted President-elect Donald’s Trump’s threat to impose sweeping tariffs, as the leader of the country’s most populous province called Trump’s comparison of Canada to Mexico “the most insulting...
Published:Wednesday | November 27, 2024 | 12:07 AM
FIUGGI (AP): Foreign ministers from the world’s leading industrialised countries threw their strong support Tuesday behind an immediate ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah but sidestepped a key question after the...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia's House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that would ban children younger than 16 years old from social media, leaving it to the Senate to finalise the world-first law. The major parties...
LONDON (AP) — The United Kingdom Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing a legal challenge focusing on the definition of “woman” in a long-running dispute between a women's right campaign group and the Scottish government. Five...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining more than 20 kilogrammes (44 pounds) to evade a tougher role in the country's military conscription system, a Seoul court...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Interpol arrested 1,006 suspects in Africa during a two-month operation clamping down on cybercrime that left tens of thousands of victims, including some who were trafficked, and produced millions in financial damages,...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has publicly criticised remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, who was caught on camera calling the Caribbean country’s leaders “total morons”. The council’s former...
MANILA (AP): Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr on Monday described a public threat by the vice president to have him killed by an assassin as a criminal plot and vowed to fight it, in a looming showdown between the country’s two top leaders...
CAIRO (AP) — A tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea on Monday after warnings of rough waters and 16 people were missing, Egyptian officials said. The governor of the Red Sea region, Amr Hanafy, said rescuers saved 28 people from the vessel...
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of homeowners in England and Wales were battling floodwaters Monday morning after the second major storm of the winter brought widespread disruption to the UK. Several rail operators cancelled services as more than 180...
AVIGNON, France (AP) — A mammoth rape trial in France moved into a new phase Monday as prosecutors began to lay out the verdicts and punishments they want for dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and...
BAKU (AP): In the wee hours on Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. It’s a far-from-...
SAN JUAN (AP): When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a UN-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons, police stations and the main international airport had crippled the...
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Tens of thousands of Spaniards marched in downtown Barcelona on Saturday to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination. Protesters cut off traffic on main avenues in the...
ABUJA (AP): When Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu ended the costly subsidies that made petrol affordable for many in Africa’s most populous country, Ahmed Halilu knew his e-hailing cab business in the capital, Abuja, was about to run into huge...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the House of Representatives speaker if she herself is killed, in a brazen public...
WASHINGTON (AP): Throughout his campaign, United States President-elect Donald Trump heaped scorn on the federal Department of Education, describing it as being infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists”. He has picked Linda McMahon, a former...
NEW YORK (AP): It’s not the holiday season until the house is full of festive music, from classics to covers and reimaginations across genres, for all to enjoy. In honour of the most wonderful time of the year, here are some of the best new holiday...
BOSTON (AP): When Massachusetts voters decided to ditch the state’s standardised tests as a high-school graduation requirement on election day, they joined a trend that has steadily chipped away at the use of high-stakes tests over the past two...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP): Around the United States, advocates for Christian education have been finding legal ways to tap taxpayer money used more typically for public schools. One new approach in Ohio is benefiting schools tied to a burgeoning...
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of protesters demonstrated Saturday in Paris and other French cities against femicides and sexual and sexist violence. In Paris, large crowds of women and men marched waving purple placards that denounced gender-based...
DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia are recalling over 208,000 electric vehicles to fix a pesky problem that can cause loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash. The recalls cover more than 145,000 Hyundai and Genesis vehicles...
BAKU (AP): A new draft of a deal on cash to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday at the United Nations climate summit pledged US$250 billion annually by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones. The amount pleases the countries who...
GEORGETOWN (CMC): Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne Friday called for a regional approach to tackle what he termed the “pernicious scourge of crime and violence” in the Caribbean. Addressing the second Regional Symposium on Crime and...
