World
Venezuela's government-aligned National Assembly declared UN rights chief Volker Turk "persona non grata" on Tuesday, after a recent report by his office described a continued deteriorating rights situation in the country.Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, las...
A fire at an electrical substation that forced a shutdown at London's Heathrow Airport in March was likely caused by moisture entering electrical components, a problem first flagged in 2018, a report said Wednesday.Water entering a transformer and causing a short circuit "most likely" ...
Business & Commerce
Singapore ramped up crypto exchange regulations Monday in a bid to curb money laundering and boost market confidence after a series of high-profile scandals rattled the sector.The city-state's central bank last month said digital token service providers (DTSPs) that served only overseas clients ...
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.The study in the prestigious Lancet journal was published as world and business leaders gat...
State media images showed leader Kim Jong Un honouring the flag-draped coffins of North Korean soldiers killed helping Russia fight Ukraine, as Seoul's defence ministry said Tuesday it saw no signs of further troop deployments yet.The nuclear-armed North has become one of Russia's main allie...
Russia's military advance in June accelerated for a third consecutive month and made its largest advance since November, according to AFP's analysis of data from US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW).The Russian army took 588 square kilometres (227 square miles) of Ukrainian territor...
Sports,Football
German Cano's header from close range gave Fluminense an early lead and they then withstood an onslaught from the Italian side in the second half before substitute Hercules sealed their victory late on.The Rio de Janeiro outfit, who qualified for the Club World Cup thanks to their Copa Libertado...
Indian customs officers in Mumbai said they have stopped a plane passenger arriving from Thailand with a wriggling cargo of live snakes, the third such seizure this month."Customs officers... foiled yet another wildlife smuggling attempt, 16 live snakes... seized from passenger returning from T...
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday urged the international community to "rev up the engine of development" aid in "a world shaken by inequalities, climate chaos and raging conflicts".Rich donors led by the United States have slashed or plan to scale down aid budgets as conflicts...
Russian President Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to surrender, Germany's top diplomat said on Monday as he visited Kyiv after weeks of stepped-up Russian bombardments of the country.Amid stalled peace talks to end the more than three-year war, "Putin is not ceding on any of his maximalist dem...
Police have found 381 corpses piled up in a private crematorium in northern Mexico's Ciudad Juarez, the local prosecutor's office said Sunday, attributing the grisly find to negligence."Preliminarily we have 381 bodies that were deposited irregularly in the crematorium, which were not c...
Israeli civilians assaulted security forces and vandalised military vehicles and a security installation outside an army base overnight in the occupied West Bank, the military said on Monday.According to Israeli media, settlers targeted the commander of the Binyamin Regional Brigade base in the cent...
More than 230,000 Afghans left Iran in June, most of them deported, as returns surge ahead of a deadline set by Tehran, the United Nations migration agency said on Monday.The number of returns from Iran rose dramatically in recent weeks. Afghans have reported increased deportations ahead of the July...
Algeria's authorities have sentenced a prominent French sports journalist specialised in African football to seven years in prison for "glorifying terrorism", media rights campaigners RSF said Sunday, denouncing the verdict as "nonsensical".Christophe Gleizes, 36, who contrib...
Jeannette Jara, the former labor minister under President Gabriel Boric, won Sunday's primary election for Chile's ruling left-wing coalition ahead of a November presidential election.Jara, a member of Chile's Communist Party, won 60 percent of the vote, according to results based on 93 ...
Goalkeeper Matt Freese was the hero as the United States defeated Costa Rica 4-3 on penalties to reach the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday.Freese made three saves in the shoot-out after the game finished 2-2 at the end of regulation to send US manager Mauricio Pochettino's side in...
Paris Saint-Germain steamrollered Lionel Messi's Inter Miami 4-0 to reach the Club World Cup quarter-finals on Sunday, where they will face Bayern Munich after they overcame a spirited Flamengo side.The German giants defeated the Brazilians 4-2 in Sunday's other last 16 clash with a brace fr...
Canada said Sunday it will rescind taxes impacting US tech firms in hopes of reaching a trade agreement with Washington, after US President Donald Trump called off talks with Ottawa in retaliation for the levy.Canadian Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne "announced today that Canada wo...
A sudden crowd surge at a Hindu festival in India's coastal state of Odisha on Sunday triggered a stampede that killed at least three people and injured several others, local government officials said.Thousands of devotees had gathered near Gundicha temple in the city of Puri for celebrations of...
Israeli strikes killed three people in southern Lebanon on Saturday despite a ceasefire in force there, authorities said, with Iran-backed Hezbollah suggesting its patience for the "ongoing aggression" was wearing thin.The Lebanese health ministry said an "Israeli enemy" drone st...
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