World
Catalonia votes Sunday in a regional election with high stakes for its separatist movement.Here are five things to know about the wealthy northeastern Spanish region which has significant autonomous powers and has been governed for the past decade by the separatists:- Secession attempt -Catalonia ma...
Sports,Cricket
James Anderson will bow out as one of cricket's all-time greats when England face West Indies in July after becoming the first pace bowler to take 700 Test wickets.The 41-year-old will bring down the curtain on a glorious Test career at Lord's, 21 years after his debut, as England head coach...
World,Front Page
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to grant the Palestinians additional rights in the global body and backed their drive for full membership, which is blocked by the United States.Israel’s UN ambassador Gilad Erdan reacted angrily to the largely symbolic vote, while Palestinia...
The most powerful solar storm in more than two decades struck Earth on Friday, triggering spectacular celestial light shows in skies from Tasmania to Britain -- and threatening possible disruptions to satellites and power grids as it persists into the weekend.The first of several coronal mass ejecti...
North Korea will equip its military with a new 240mm multiple rocket launcher starting this year, state media said Saturday, adding a "significant change" for the army's artillery combat capabilities was under way. Leader Kim Jong Un on Friday oversaw a live-fire test of the &quo...
The United States issued Friday a stunning criticism of Israel's use of American weapons in the Gaza war, after Israeli forces intensified operations around the southern city of Rafah, where more than a million displaced people are sheltering.Israel's main international ally said it was &quo...
Business & Commerce
China's inflation rate quickened last month, official data showed Saturday, as the government works to boost spending in the world's second-largest economy.The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.3 percent year-on-year in April, staying in positive territory for the third straight month, ac...
Sports,Football
France striker Kylian Mbappe says he will leave Paris St-Germain at the end of the season.Mbappe, 25, announced the decision in a video released on his social media, external accounts.“I’ve always said that I would speak with you when the time comes,” Mbappe said.“It’s ...
An Israeli ground attack in Gaza's Rafah would lead to an "epic humanitarian disaster", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Friday after negotiators left truce talks in Cairo without a deal."A massive ground attack in Rafah would lead to (an) epic humanitarian disaster an...
Israel launched fresh strikes in the Gaza Strip Friday after negotiators pursuing a long-stalled truce agreement left talks in Cairo without having secured a deal.AFP journalists in the Gaza Strip early Friday witnessed artillery strikes on Rafah on the territory's southern border with Egypt, wh...
Palestinian group Hamas said early Friday that its delegation attending Gaza ceasefire negotiations in Cairo had left the city for Qatar, adding the "ball is now completely" in Israel's hands."The negotiating delegation left Cairo heading to Doha. In practice, the occupation (Isra...
Heatstroke has killed 61 people in Thailand so far this year, more than in all of 2023, the health ministry said on Friday after weeks of scorching weather across the region.A wave of exceptionally hot weather blasted Thailand in recent weeks, prompting authorities to issue warnings about scorching ...
Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.Even before the official results gave Deby more than 61 percent in Monday's ballot,...
South Korea will allow foreign doctors to work in its hospitals after a rigorous vetting process, the prime minister said Friday, as a months-long strike by junior medics shows no sign of resolution.Thousands stopped working on February 20 to protest government plans to train more doctors, causing c...
Growing hopes that the Federal Reserve and other central banks are close to cutting interest rates helped push Asian stocks higher Friday.Traders tracked gains in New York as well as records in London and Frankfurt as they cheered fresh US data indicating the labour market was beginning to soften, g...
The Philippine economy grew slightly less than expected in the first three months of the year, data showed Thursday, owing to persistent inflation and a widespread drought.The 5.7 percent expansion in January-March was well down from the 6.4 percent posted in the same period last year earlier but a ...
Israel shelled Rafah on Thursday as US President Joe Biden offered his starkest warning yet over the conduct of its war against Hamas, vowing to cut off arms transfers if an offensive into the southern Gaza city goes ahead.Israel has already defied international objections by sending in tanks and co...
The Israeli military said Wednesday a recent air strike had killed the commander of Hamas's naval unit in Gaza City, accusing of "attacks" against troops during the seven-month war. Mohammed Ahmed Ali was killed in an air strike "in the past day", the military said in a state...
Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused an Islamist armed group and an ethnic militia of killing at least 45 civilians in separate attacks in January in central Mali, a region plagued by communal violence.Fighters from the Al-Qaeda-linked coalition Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) &...
Six migrant workers were shot dead in southwestern Pakistan, police said Thursday, in a region where militants have long waged ethnic violence against outsiders.The men were killed late Wednesday at their home, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Gwadar in Balochistan province where major Chinese investme...
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