World
Nine Israeli soldiers were injured, two of them seriously, when ordnance exploded at a military base in the south, the army announced on Wednesday."An explosion of munitions occurred on a military base in southern Israel. The incident is under investigation," an army statement said of the ...
Matt Croucher, a former British Royal Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, has been held in Dubai for seven months on spying charges, the Times newspaper said on Tuesday.The 40-year-old, who had received George Cross -- Britain's highest award for gallantry -- for his service in Afgha...
World,Back Page
Fiji's prime minister wound back the clock on Wednesday by winning a bronze medal at an international athletics championships, aged 75.Sitiveni Rabuka, who competed for Fiji at both rugby and athletics in his youth, finished on the podium for his age category in the shot put at the Oceania champ...
Business & Commerce
The world has never had so many rich people and their investments in soaring stock markets have made them wealthier than ever recorded, according to a study published on Wednesday.The number of "high net worth individuals" (HNWI) -- defined as people with liquid assets of at least $1 milli...
Palestinians displaced by the Gaza war are living in "appalling" conditions, with children sometimes going for a whole day without food and thousands sharing the same toilet, Oxfam warned on Tuesday.Deadly Israeli bombardment and fighting has raged in the Gaza Strip's far-southern Rafa...
Microsoft said Monday it would invest 33.7 billion kronor ($3.2 billion) over two years in cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Sweden, its biggest investment in the country. The group will train 250,000 people by 2027 to boost AI knowledge and competence and also increase capacity at...
Iran threatened to respond Tuesday if the UN nuclear watchdog approves a new censure resolution proposed by three European governments despite the opposition of the United States, Iranian media reported."In case of issuing a resolution against Iran in the board of governors and political pressu...
At least 18 people have died in flooding caused by torrential rain on South Africa's eastern coast, local authorities said on Tuesday.At least seven died in Eastern Cape province, a spokesperson from Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, at the heart of the floods, told AFP.And the provincial governm...
Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hunkered down Tuesday as he prepared to go head-to-head with Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer in the first televised debate of the UK general election campaign on the back foot.It comes with Sunak under intense pressure to reset the Tories' faltering ...
Eight months after Hamas militants attacked Israel and took 251 people captive, 120 people are still being held in Gaza but it is unclear how many are still alive.Of the original 251, some of whom were already dead when they were taken back to the Palestinian territory to be used as bargaining chips...
The Israeli ambassador to Japan has not yet been invited to Nagasaki's annual peace ceremony, said city officials who instead sent the embassy a letter calling for a Gaza ceasefire.The city in southern Japan this week invited dozens of countries and territories to the August 9 event on the anniv...
Sports,Football
The first time Real Madrid showed an interest in signing Kylian Mbappe was in December 2012, although he was only approaching his 14th birthday the Spanish giants knew they were looking at a prodigious talent.Mbappe, who was living at the French Football Federation's academy at Clairefontaine at...
Sports,Cricket
Afghanistan produced a dominant bowling and batting performance to thrash debutants Uganda by 125 runs in the T20 World Cup in Guyana on Monday.Afghanistan openers Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran laid the foundations for the win with an opening stand of 154 in Afghanistan's 183-5.Left-arm ...
Some 55 percent of all structures in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed, damaged or possibly damaged since war erupted in the Palestinian territory eight months ago, according to preliminary satellite analysis by the UN.The analysis showed more than 137,000 buildings affected, UNOSAT, the United Nat...
Jury selection begins Monday in the gun trial of Joe Biden's son Hunter, the first prosecution in US history for the child of a sitting president -- just as the Democratic leader seeks to accelerate his reelection campaign.The case comes on the heels of another unprecedented trial, in which Whit...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was in Guinea on Monday on the first leg of an African tour aimed at buttressing Moscow's influence in the world's poorest continent.Russia, which has seen its relations with the West plummet after it sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, has sought to boos...
Nine African countries are among the 10 "most neglected" crises of mass displacement in the world, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) said on Monday.Burkina Faso tops the list for a second year amid a deepening crisis sparked by years of conflict that has left around two million people in...
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni is due this week to travel to Albania for a visit focussing on migration, just days before the European Parliament elections, Albanian media said on Monday.Under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana, Albania has agreed to take in asylum seekers plucked f...
A war monitor said 16 members of pro-Iran groups were killed in an Israeli strike near northern Syria's Aleppo early Monday, with state media also reporting a deadly Israeli attack."The death toll of the Israeli strike on a factory in Hayyan in western Aleppo province has risen to 16 pro-Ir...
Nigerian unions began an indefinite strike on Monday, closing schools and public offices, impacting airports and shutting down the national power grid after talks with the government failed to agree a new minimum wage.The worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation in Africa's most populous coun...
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