WORLD NEWS: RUSSIA PROBES EXPLOSION ON OIL TANKER
An explosion Sunday on an oil tanker at a port in northwest Russia forced the crew to evacuate and was being investigated, the country’s federal...
SECOND US JUDGE BLOCKS TRUMP’S ATTEMPT TO RESTRICT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump’s attempt to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, US in a blow to the president’s bid...
WORLD NEWS: TRUMP TO SIGN ORDER BARRING TRANS-ATHLETES FROM WOMEN’S SPORTS
Agency Report US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday barring transgender athletes from women’s sports, in his latest move targeting transgender people...
NIGER REPUBLIC CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE VACATION OF RED CROSS FROM COUNTRY
Niger’s ruling military junta has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to leave the country immediately, a source told AFP Wednesday. Niger...
WORLD NEWS: DEPORTATION FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORY PROHIBITED – UN TELLS TRUMP
UN rights chief Volker Turk insisted Wednesday that deporting people from occupied territory was strictly prohibited, after President Donald Trump’s shock proposal for the United...
VIOLENCE: MEXICAN PRISON RIOT LEAVES SEVEN DEAD
A prison riot left seven people dead in a Mexican state grappling with rising criminal violence, authorities said Tuesday. The public prosecutor’s office announced an...
TRAGIC: ‘AROUND 10’ DEAD, INCLUDING GUNMAN, IN SWEDEN’S WORST MASS SHOOTING
Agency Report Around 10 people were killed on Tuesday in a shooting at an education centre in Sweden, including the suspected gunman, with the Swedish...
WORLD NEWS: TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER WITHDRAWING US FROM UN BODIES
Agency Report US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights...
WORLD NEWS: US FLIGHTS CARRYING DETAINED MIGRANTS TO GUANTANAMO ‘UNDERWAY’
Agency Report The first US flights carrying detained migrants to America’s notorious Guantanamo military base in Cuba were underway Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s administration...
US APPROVES PIG KIDNEY TRANSPLANT TRIALS
Agency Report Two US biotech companies say the Food and Drug Administration has cleared them to conduct clinical trials of their gene-edited pig kidneys for...