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...
BELGIUM SWEARS IN DE WEVER AS NEW PRIME MINISTER
Agency Report Conservative Bart De Wever was sworn in on Monday as Belgium’s new prime minister after securing a hard-fought coalition deal that shifts the...
JUST IN: MUSK BRANDS USAID AS ‘CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION’ AMID ROW
Elon Musk attacked the US Agency for International Development on Sunday, calling it a “criminal organization” after Donald Trump moved to freeze the bulk of...
WORLD NEWS: TANZANIAN ARMY CONFIRMS TWO SOLDIERS KILLED IN DR CONGO
Two Tanzanian soldiers have been killed in clashes in the last 10 days in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the army confirmed Sunday. The offensive...
BUSINESS NEWS: SRI LANKA RECORDS HIGHEST DEFLATION IN 65 YEARS
As the South Asian country rebounds from its greatest economic disaster, official statistics released Friday showed that Sri Lanka's consumer prices dropped by 4.0% in...