WORLD NEWS: NEPAL HOSTS HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL
With Nepal’s snowy Himalayan peaks as a backdrop, the sky above Pokhara transformed into a vibrant canvas of colours for the country’s first hot-air balloon...
FORMER US PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON DISCHARGED FROM HOSPITAL
Former US president Bill Clinton left hospital Tuesday, his office said, a day after he was admitted with a fever in the latest in a...
WORLD NEWS: FRANCE’S MACRON ANNOUNCES FOURTH GOVT OF THE YEAR
French President Emmanuel Macron named a new government Monday evening, putting together a team under Francois Bayrou, his fourth prime minister of the year, to...
FOREIGN: DEATH TOLL IN BRAZIL BUS CRASH RISES TO 41
Authorities on Sunday raised to 41 the death toll in a weekend bus crash in southeastern Brazil that President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called...
WORLD NEWS: ONE MISSING AFTER OIL RIG SINKS OFF TRINIDAD
An oil rig sank in the waters off Trinidad Sunday, leaving one worker missing, the company and oil workers union said. The rig, operated by...
WORLD NEWS: FRANCE WITHDRAWS FIRST CONTINGENT OF SOLDIERS FROM CHAD
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, the country’s defence ministry said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial...
WORLD NEWS: ROMANIA COURT ACCEPTS ANDREW TATE’S APPEAL
A Romanian court on Thursday granted an appeal by controversial influencer Andrew Tate, refusing to put him on trial over human trafficking charges for now,...
WORLD NEWS: UKRAINE STRIKES RUSSIAN OIL REFINERY, TRIGGERING FIRE
According to Russian and Ukrainian officials on Thursday, an oil refinery in southern Russia caught fire overnight as a result of a large Ukrainian drone...
JUST IN: FIRE BREAKS OUT AT LIBERIAN PARLIAMENT AFTER PROTESTS
A large blaze ravaged parts of Liberia’s parliament building on Wednesday, a day after tense protests erupted following months of political deadlock. Authorities said that...
WORLD NEWS: POLAND SEEKS TO CURTAIL ASYLUM RIGHTS AMID MIGRANT PRESSURE
Agency Report Poland’s government on Wednesday adopted a bill that would allow it to temporarily limit asylum rights, as it seeks to halt irregular migrant...