Sudan accuses UAE of fuelling war with weapons to paramilitary rivals
(): The Sudanese government has accused the United Arab Emirates of fuelling the 14-month war in the African country by providing weapons to a rival paramilitary force. The UAE dismissed the allegation as “ludicrous,” calling “a shameful abuse by one of the warring parties”. The clash came during a UN Security...
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EU criticises France for excessive debt
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Far-right leader backpedals on taking France out of NATO strategic military command
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Climate protesters arrested in UK
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Police detain 8 after revolt against French rule
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels sink ship in Red Sea in second attack
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Explosions in Chad’s capital kill 9 people, 46 hurt
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French police shoot dead an attacker with screwdriver in Paris suburbs
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Russia, N Korea sign strongest deal since Cold War
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signed a new partnership that includes a vow of mutual aid if either country is attacked, during a Wednesday summit that came as both face escalating standoffs with the West. The deal, which the leaders said covered areas including...
Southern China faces heavy floods, and landslides kill 9
(): Southern China was reeling on Tuesday from heavy rains that triggered landslides killing at least nine people, knocking out power for entire villages and burying crops. Meanwhile, northern parts of the country are battling drought, as the country faces two extremes of severe weather. Four people were killed and two...
King Charles III felicitates India-born brain trauma expert
An India-born brain trauma expert and Professor of Anaesthesia at the University of Cambridge has been conferred with one of the high honours by Britain’s King Charles III for “services to neurocritical care”. Prof David Krishna Menon, Head of Division of Anaesthesia at the University of Cambridge, was conferred with a...
Muslims wrap up Haj with stoning of devil
Muslim pilgrims are wrapping up the Hajj, or pilgrimage, in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest site, in the city of Mecca. The three-day stoning ritual in Mina, a desert site...
US renews warning it’s obligated to defend the Philippines
The United States renewed a warning on Tuesday that it’s obligated to defend its close treaty ally a day after Filipino navy personnel were injured and their supply boats damaged in one of the most serious confrontations between the Philippines and China in a disputed shoal in the South China...
Swedish diplomat says his release from detention in Iran like a dream
The Swedish European Union diplomat who was held in Iran for two years and freed in a prisoner swap over the weekend said on Tuesday that his release was “the dream that I sometimes did not dare to believe in”. Johan Floderus and a second Swedish citizen, Saeed Azizi, returned to...
China urges Biden not to sign Tibet Bill
China on Tuesday urged US President Joe Biden not to sign the Tibet policy bill, warning of “resolute measures”, as it expressed “strong concern” over the visit of a high-level US Congress delegation to Dharamshala to meet the Dalai Lama. A bipartisan US congressional delegation, led by House Foreign Affairs Committee...
