[ad_1] Nina Bahinskaya, 73, poses for a photo holding a flag that became the symbole of the opposition at an entrance of her apartment building in Minsk, Belarus (Image: AP) TALLINN: Authorities in Belarus have opened a criminal case against the 78-year-old activist who became the face of the country’s pro-democracy protests in 2020. Retired […]
[ad_1] Image credit: AP An Israeli strike on Yemen’s Sanaa airport on Tuesday has led to its “complete destruction”, airport officials said. The Israeli warplanes struck the airport in the Houthi-controlled capital which came in response to a missile attack by the Iran-aligned Houthi rebels targeting Israel’s main airport.Residents reported power cuts in Sanaa and […]
[ad_1] Representative Image (AI-generated) Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital have agreed to a $750 million settlement of hundreds of sexual abuse claims by patients of disgraced and imprisoned former gynecologist Robert Hadden, bringing total legal payouts in civil cases involving the ex-doctor to over $1 billion, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyer. Hadden, now 66, […]
[ad_1] Tesla sales in Germany and Britain fell to their lowest point in more than two years in April, cementing a wider trend of Europeans shunning the U.S. automaker, despite growing demand for battery-powered vehicles in Europe. Registrations of new Tesla vehicles dropped nearly 46 percent in Germany and 62 percent in Britain from a […]
[ad_1] Just hours before welcoming Canada’s prime minister to the White House, US President Donald Trump took to social media with a message claiming America doesn’t need anything from its neighbour.Posting on Truth Social ahead of Mark Carney’s arrival on Tuesday, Trump said, “I very much want to work with him, but cannot understand one […]
[ad_1] Italian town Sirmione was visited by 75,000 people in the May Day weekend leading to chaos. Sirmione is a small lakeside town in Italy with a 13th-century castle as the main sightseeing destination, which was overrun by tourists during the May Day weekend resulting in chaos, gridlock and hours of waiting.Horrific videos of people […]
[ad_1] Workers advertise their skills looking for work outside a hardware store in a Johannesburg suburb (Image: AP) JOHANNESBURG: South Africa’s second biggest political party launched a legal challenge Tuesday against a new labour law aimed at boosting the hiring of Black people and other groups in some industries, arguing it is unconstitutional, discriminatory and […]
[ad_1] UNAIDS to slash workforce by more than half as funding by US and other big donors disappears (Photo: AP) The UN agency that fights HIV plans to slash its workforce by more than half and move many posts to cheaper locations as a result of drastic funding cuts from longtime donors in the United […]
[ad_1] Representative Image (AI-generated) KIGALI: An ambush in Mozambique killed three Rwandan soldiers over the weekend and wounded six, a Rwandan army spokesperson said Tuesday.Kigali said in 2021 that it would deploy roughly 1,000 members of the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) and the Rwanda National Police (RNP) to Mozambique, plagued by a long-running insurgency.“It is […]
[ad_1] Filmmaker Mira Nair’s son Zohran Mamdani is emerging as a strong contender for the NYC mayoral poll. Kamala Harris’s step-daughter Ella Emhoff has officially endorsed Democratic socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor. “I’m passing the phone to the next mayor of New York City who’s going to make New York happier, […]
