Schools and workplaces close, hundreds of flights cancelled and thousands evacuate as Typhoon Podul nears island. Thousands of people have evacuated, schools have closed, and hundreds of flights have been cancelled as Typhoon Podul approaches southern Taiwan with wind gusts as strong as 191kph (118 mph). The mid-strength Typhoon PodulRead More →
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres puts both countries ‘on notice’ over documented pattern of sexual violence. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has put Israel and Russia “on notice” that their armed forces and security personnel could be listed among parties “credibly suspected” of committing sexual violence in conflict zones. TheRead More →
Here are the key events on day 1,266 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is how things stand on Wednesday, August 13: Fighting A Russian attack killed a civilian and injured one other person in Shakhove, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Governor Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram. RussianRead More →
The US is sanctioning the Pareco-FF armed group, as well as the Congolese mining company CDMC. The United States has sanctioned an armed group accused of illicit mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as both the army and the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group traded accusations of violatingRead More →
President Javier Milei of Argentina has proposed a new $1m initiative to strengthen relations between Latin America and Israel, ahead of an anticipated visit from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. On Monday, the Genesis Prize Foundation — a group that offers an annual award to members of the Jewish communityRead More →
Mayor Muriel Bowser disputes Donald Trump’s emergency narrative, citing crime decline; critics call deployment a political power play. Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by US President Donald Trump have started arriving in the nation’s capital, ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take overRead More →
US President Donald Trump said he is deploying 800 National Guard soldiers to Washington, DC, and taking control of its police department after claiming that crime was “out of control” in the capital city. The nation’s capital is “becoming a situation of complete and total lawlessness,” Trump said at an AugustRead More →
Before stepping back into the Oval Office in January, United States President Donald Trump promised numerous times that he would broker a truce between Russia and Ukraine “within 24 hours”. Since then, as the war has escalated and peace has looked increasingly distant, he recently claimed that pledge was sarcastic.Read More →
Mattia Debertolis discovered unconscious during an orienteering event in Chengdu on August 8 and died four days later. Italian orienteering athlete Mattia Debertolis died on Tuesday after being found unresponsive during competition at the World Games in China’s Chengdu, organisers have said. The 29-year-old was discovered unconscious during an orienteeringRead More →
A rescue group says civilians have been ‘killed either by stray bullets or direct executions’ at the camp. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has attacked a famine-hit camp for displaced people in Darfur, killing at least 40 civilians, according to first responders. The RSF stormed Abu Shouk camp onRead More →
