US President Joe Biden’s state visit to Germany on Friday was extremely brief. But the US president used every minute in Berlin to try to make clear that he still has big ambitions on the world stage, these last weeks before he leaves office in January. Especially in the Middle East and Ukraine. European defence…
Cuba is experiencing a nationwide blackout after its main energy plant failed, knocking out power to its 10 million people. Its power grid collapsed at around 11:00 (15:00 GMT) on Friday, the energy ministry announced on social media. Grid officials said they did not know how long it would take to restore power. The island…
An Israeli air strike has killed at least 33 people including 21 women at a refugee camp in northern Gaza, the strip’s Hamas-run authorities say. There was no immediate comment on the reported attack at Jabalia from Israel, whose forces have been besieging the densely-populated camp for weeks. The killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar…
Mohar Singh Meena Roop Kanwar was burned to death on her husband’s funeral pyre It was a case that made headlines globally and led to widespread condemnation. A teenaged widow was burned on her husband’s funeral pyre under the Hindu practice of sati 37 years ago. Now Roop Kanwar’s story has returned to headlines in…
AFP Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has been in power since 1982 Rumours of ill-health have engulfed two African presidents in recent weeks, sparking contrasting responses and exposing how the wellbeing of leaders is often treated as a state secret. It started with Cameroon’s President Paul Biya, 91, whose ministers denied that he was sick, insisting…
Getty Images Le Sserafim (left-right): Yunjin, Kazuha, Chae-won, Sakura and Eunchae Hong Eunchae, the youngest member of K-Pop band Le Sserafim, is strutting through Seoul’s infamous Nakwon Instrument Arcade when she suddenly loses her footing. With a crash, her drink flies into the air and the 17-year-old falls head-first down a metal staircase, landing with…
The father of former One Direction member Liam Payne has visited tributes laid out by fans outside the hotel where his son died on Wednesday. Geoff Payne read letters and messages left by fans and paused next to flowers, photographs and candles placed around a tree near the hotel. He also thanked fans for the…
Reuters People smugglers are making vast profits getting people illegally across the Channel Peering over her glasses, the French judge glanced sternly across the cavernous underground courtroom towards a notorious figure seated in a glass cage. “There will be no more misbehaviour. No more threats. Is that understood?” asked Arabelle Bouts, the lead judge of…
What does the killing of Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7 attack, mean for Israel and Gaza? Ronen Bergman, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine who is based in Tel Aviv, explains. Source link
Yahya Sinwar, architect of the October 7 massacre and Israel‘s most wanted man, was killed on Wednesday after being hunted by intelligence services and the Israeli Defence Forces for over a year. Ultimately, his assassination was seemingly by chance, with the group of trainee soldiers responsible for the Hamas chief’s death not knowing his true identity at the…
