Egyptian authorities have since 2020 carried out a campaign to silence female social media influencers, using a cybercrime law to detain them on vague charges… Read More »Egypt’s female social media influencers face arrest, jail on ‘morality’ charges
US President Joe Biden will arrive in Belfast Tuesday to launch high-profile commemorations of the 25th anniversary of the deal that brought peace to Northern… Read More »US President Biden visits Northern Ireland to commemorate peace deal
The leak of highly sensitive US documents – many of them related to the Ukraine conflict – presents a “very serious” risk to US national… Read More »US says classified document leak ‘serious risk to national security’
French President Emmanuel Macron begins a state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday featuring a speech on Europe that will be keenly watched after his… Read More »President Macron to visit Netherlands amid row over China comments
Two overcrowded fishing boats carrying 800 and 400 people are found off the coast of Sicily.
FIFA has predicted the women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand will be a “watershed” moment that propels the game to another level, with… Read More »Women’s World Cup 2023 will be a ‘watershed’ moment, says FIFA
The United States and the Philippines on Tuesday launch their largest combat exercises in decades that will involve live-fire drills, including a boat-sinking rocket assault… Read More »US, Philippines hold largest war drills in decades across disputed waters
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to restore security “on all fronts” after surging violence that included rocket fire from Lebanon and Syria and two… Read More »Netanyahu vows to restore security in Israel after surging violence
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for strengthening the country’s war deterrence in a “more practical and offensive” manner to counter what it called… Read More »North Korea’s Kim calls for expanding ‘offensive’ war deterrence
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Monday he was “very concerned” after China sentenced two prominent human rights lawyers to more than a decade… Read More »UN rights chief ‘concerned’ as China jails prominent human rights lawyers
