Global temperatures “smashed” heat records last year, as heatwaves stalked oceans and glaciers suffered record ice loss, the United Nations said Tuesday – warning 2024… Read More »Planet ‘on the brink’ as UN agency warns new heat records are likely in 2024
Amid economic turmoil, unemployment and growing frustration at perceived corruption and mismanagement by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, some in South Africa’s Western Cape… Read More »CapeXit: The unlikely campaign for independence in South Africa’s Western Cape
In an interview with FRANCE 24, the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) sounded the alarm about the plight of children in Gaza after… Read More »‘We cannot have children starving to death in Gaza, it’s not acceptable’: UNICEF chief
Hong Kong legislators unanimously passed a new national security law on Tuesday, introducing penalties such as life imprisonment for crimes related to treason and insurrection,… Read More »Hong Kong adopts contentious law giving government more power to quash dissent
Russia said on Tuesday that its forces had taken control of the eastern Ukrainian village of Orlivka, situated about four kilometres (2.5 miles) west of… Read More »Russia says it has captured frontline village of Orlivka in eastern Ukraine
Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being “abusive”.
Authorities say the extreme heat could last for two weeks and bring temperatures of up to 45C (113F).
French President Emmanuel Macron Tuesday pledged an “unprecedented operation” against drug trafficking in Marseille during a surprise visit to the southern port city beset by… Read More »Macron vows ‘unprecedented operation’ to stop drug trafficking in Marseille
Antoine Griezmann was on Monday ruled out of France’s friendlies against Germany and Chile with an ankle sprain ending his record run of playing 84… Read More »Griezmann’s record run with France ends after forward suffers ankle injury
The Bank of Japan ended eight years of negative interest rates and other remnants of its unorthodox policy on Tuesday, making a historic shift away from a… Read More »Bank of Japan ends negative interest rates, opting for first hike in 17 years
