Category: Global News

The US Supreme Court signalled its willingness to uphold a major gun control policy implemented by the Biden administration that regulates so-called “ghost guns” in the same way as other firearms. The rule being challenged requires that ghost guns – largely untraceable firearms that can be assembled at home using kits – are subject to…

Reuters Smoke rose over Beirut’s southern suburbs after they were targeted by new Israeli air strikes on Tuesday Israel is expanding its ground invasion of Lebanon against Hezbollah, sending thousands of additional troops into a new zone in the south-west of the country. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a fourth division had joined the…

PA Russia’s intelligence agency has been on a mission to generate “sustained mayhem on British and European streets”, the head of MI5 has said. Giving his annual update on security threats faced by the UK, Ken McCallum said GRU agents had carried out “arson, sabotage and more dangerous actions conducted with increasing recklessness” in Britain…

Kenyan MPs are due to vote on whether to impeach Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua in a political row that has gripped the nation following his recent fallout with President William Ruto. The lawmakers accuse Gachagua of corruption, practising ethnically divisive politics and undermining the government, among a host of other charges. The 59-year-old politician, popularly…

Getty Images A minister in the government of Argentina’s Buenos Aires province, the country’s largest, has sparked controversy by suggesting that it could seek to become independent. Jorge D’Onofrio, who is transport minister in the province’s left-wing Peronist administration, said in a radio interview that if it were a nation in its own right, it…

EFE Supporters of the National Conference celebrate as the party leads in Jammu and Kashmir The northern Indian state of Haryana and Indian-administered Kashmir sprang surprises on Tuesday as votes were counted in assembly elections there. Most exit polls had predicted a hung assembly in Kashmir but an alliance of the main opposition Congress and…

Police in Guatemala raided five regional offices of British aid agency Save the Children on Monday as part of an investigation into alleged child abuse. Prosecutors requested information from US authorities in April about the alleged involvement of the organisation in smuggling children across the border, according to local media. Save the Children said it…

Diego Garcia is the largest of 60 small islands belonging to the Chagos Archipelago, and is a disputed overseas territory of the UK, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), also claimed by Mauritius. Negotiations have ramped up in recent weeks. The atoll is found at least 1,000 miles from the nearest landmass: 2,197…