Fighting erupts in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, breaking five-month truce
Issued on: 25/08/2022 – 09:49
Fighting erupted between government forces and Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia on Wednesday, shattering a five-month truce and dealing…
Live: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant disconnected from Ukraine’s power grid
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant under occupation by Russian troops was disconnected from the national power supply on Thursday, the state energy operator said. Fire…
Uvalde school board sacks police chief after Texas mass shooting
The Uvalde school district fired police chief Pete Arredondo on Wednesday under mounting pressure in the grieving Texas town to punish officers over letting a gunman at Robb…
MEXICO VIOLENCE – Doubts swirl around woman’s death at police lockup in Mexico
The father of a woman who perished late last week inside a municipal police lockup in the southeastern Mexican city of Salina Cruz has refused so far to accept the official cause…
INDONESIA LAUNCHES ACTION PLAN TO PROMOTE WELLNESS TOURISM
Indonesia’s Tourism and Creative Economy Ministry wants to strengthen the promotion of its wellness tourism, particularly in Bali as well as in Solo and Yogyakarta in Central Java.…
‘Very emotional’: Ukrainians in Brussels plead for more support on independence day
Press play to listen to this article The city of Brussels celebrated Ukraine’s 31st independence day Wednesday by dressing the famous Manneken Pis statue in a traditional Kozak…
Six months of war in Ukraine: 20 important stories in pictures
It is six months since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. News that shook the world kept coming such as the news of civil infrastructure destruction, killing, the alleged…
PROFILE: Who is Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s likely next prime minister?
Opinion polls put Italy’s right-wing coalition on course to win the September 25th elections by a landslide, with Meloni’s party on top.
Meloni would then likely become the…
PHILIPPINES CLIMATE CRISIS – Manila fishermen besieged by garbage, rising waters
Hundreds of fishermen and their families who have settled in precarious floating houses north of Manila Bay suffer an environmental and urban siege due to the rise in sea level,…
Paralysed gunman dies after court allows his request for euthanasia
Prison authorities in Spain have euthanised a gunman who was left paralysed after a shootout with police.Marin Eugen Sabau died on Tuesday evening after an unprecedented court…