New Zealand removes final Covid restrictions
New Zealand’s government will lift all remaining COVID-19 requirements from midnight Tuesday, bringing an end to some of the toughest COVID-19 pandemic rules in the world more than three ...
Hunter Biden counsel says US prosecutors reneged on plea deal (Updated)
Lawyers for Hunter Biden said in a late Sunday court filing that prosecutors reneged on a plea deal that would have resolved tax and firearms charges against the U.S. ...
Russia’s moon craft starts processing first data – space agency
By Guy Faulconbridge
Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon ...
Pope Francis denounces ‘pain and shame’ of Mediterranean migrant deaths
Pope Francis on Sunday urged politicians to address the “open wound” of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean, saying he had been praying for the 41 people who died in a shipwreck ...
Russian shelling kills seven in Ukraine’s Kherson, including baby – minister
Russian forces shelled two villages in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Sunday, killing seven civilians including a baby, Ukrainian authorities said.
A couple, their 23-day-old child and another ...
Russia shoots down three Ukrainian drones over Russia – defence ministry
Russian air defences shot down at least three Ukrainian drones over western regions of Russia on Sunday, the defence ministy said.
Two drones were shot down over Belgorod region and ...
Maui wildfires deadliest in century as death toll hits 93
By Mike Blake and Marco Garcia
The death toll from the Maui wildfires in Hawaii reached 93 on Saturday, according to the Maui County website, making it the deadliest U.S. ...
Death toll from mudslide in China’s Xian rises to 21 (updated)
By Andrew Hayley and Ethan Wang
The death toll from a mudslide in China’s northwestern city of Xian has risen to 21, with six people still missing, the city’s ...
Explosions heard in Syrian capital Damascus – state media
Explosions were heard in the vicinity of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Sunday, state media said, adding that the cause was not known.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, ...
Argentine farmers back conservatives in election, hoping for freer markets
In Argentina’s grains fields and cattle ranches, farmers are hoping upcoming elections will bring political change and an end to years of economic uncertainty, ushering in freer markets with ...
Russia says it thwarted Ukrainian attacks on Crimean Bridge
Ukrainian forces targeted the Crimean Bridge and a number of other unspecified targets on the Crimean peninsula on Saturday in a flurry of rocket and drone attacks, but there were ...
Maui wildfire death toll hits 80 as questions raised over warnings
The death toll from the Maui wildfires rose to 80 on Friday as search teams combed through the smoldering ruins of Lahaina, and Hawaiian officials sought to determine how the inferno ...
At least one dead, dozens rescued as migrant boat crossing Channel from France capsizes
At least one person died and more than 50 were rescued after a migrant boat trying to cross the Channel from France capsized early on Saturday, local authorities said.
Local mayor ...
Floods, mudslides kill two in northwestern China city
Mudslides and flooding in the northwestern Chinese city of Xian killed two people and 16 others are missing, state-owned China Central Television (CCTV) reported on Saturday.
The casualties come after heavy ...
Nigerian producer pumps out AI-powered Afrobeats
When artificial intelligence (AI) apps started spreading in Nigeria’s music industry, Eclipse Nkasi thought his days as a producer were numbered.
Then he took a step back, saw there ...
Israel police downgrades homicide charge in settler case watched by Washington
Israeli police downgraded a homicide charge on Friday against a Jewish settler suspected of killing a Palestinian in what the United States has described as a “terror attack”.
A new ...
Hunter Biden likely to face trial as US special counsel named
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden may be headed for trial on criminal charges after talks on a potential plea deal reached impasse, the newly named U.S. Special ...
Judge rules Trump can share some evidence publicly in 2020 election case
A federal judge on Friday ruled that former U.S. President Donald Trump will be allowed to publicly share some non-sensitive evidence that will be used in his trial on ...
A frigid apocalypse doomed early humans in Europe
Long before our species Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, earlier human species also spread to other parts of the world. That dispersal, however, sometimes encountered grave hardships.
Scientists on ...
De-dollarisation and what it means
The war in Ukraine and the sanctions by the United States and allies, designed to isolate Russia and to a lesser extent China, has caused a reaction from the BRICS ...
Biden seeks $24 billion for Ukraine, testing bipartisan support
U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress to approve about $40 billion in additional spending on Thursday, including $24 billion for Ukraine and other international needs, $4 billion related to border security and $12 ...
Maui wildfire death toll hits 55, recovery to take years
Search teams on Maui on Friday will comb through the charred ruins of Lahaina looking for more victims of a wildfire that ripped through the Kingdom of Hawaii’s onetime ...
UK economy’s surprise strength puts more BoE rate hikes on table
Britain’s economy eked out unexpected growth in the second quarter, laying the ground for more interest rate hikes from the Bank of England, but it remained the only big ...
Israeli forces kill Palestinian, wound eight, in West Bank raid
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded at least eight others during an operation in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Palestinian officials said.
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