BBC Russell the crow has been ruffling a few feathers at the Co-op store in North Hykeham Shoppers and staff at a Lincolnshire Co-op say they are being terrorised by an upstart crow – dubbed Russell. Abi Hill, from the Co-op in North Hykeham, said they had initially blamed bored teenagers for mess outside the…
A Swiss national arrested in Iran and accused of spying has died in prison, according to Iranian state media. The man was being held with another inmate at a prison in the eastern city of Semnan when he “committed suicide” on Thursday, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News Agency said. The judiciary-run Mizan News Agency said prison…
Two children were among three Palestinians from the same extended family killed in an Israeli drone strike in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, Palestinian officials say. The governor of Tubas said the strike in the town of Tammun killed Adam Besharat, 23, and his cousins Hamza Besharat, 10, and Reda Besharat, eight. The Israeli…
In easier times for Egypt’s refugees, Azza Mostafa, a pro-government TV anchor, had nothing but generous words for the many thousands of Syrians who had built new lives in Egypt after their own country imploded into civil war in 2011. “I’d like to say to our Syrian families and our brothers in Egypt,” she said…
An Indian national has been arrested from a guest house in Eastern Nepal on charges of possessing a rhino horn and narcotic drugs, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off, a special team of Nepal Police arrested Narayan Ramdham, a resident of North Mendabari in West Bengal, from the Himalaya Guest House in Kakarbhitta…
Venâncio Mondlane maintains he won last year’s presidential election alleging that the poll was rigged Supporters of Mozambique’s opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane have been injured as police tried to break up the crowds who had come to meet him after his return from self-imposed exile on Thursday. He had left the country saying he thought…
Getty Images Beijing has experienced a surge in flu-like HMPV cases, especially among children, which it attributed to a seasonal spike. A surge in cases of the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in China has raised fears of another Covid-style pandemic. Images of hospitals overrun with masked patients have circulated widely on social media, but health…
Pierre Poilievre, the man who is the favorite to become Canada’s next leader, has painted his country as “broken” and ridden with “crime and chaos.” He has derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as a “wacko” and his ministers as “crazy,’’ “disastrous,” “incompetent and discredited.” In Parliament, he called a leftist opposition leader and former Trudeau…
Just weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian troops began running out of ammunition for their aging Soviet-era artillery. The United States was soon scouring foreign arsenals around the globe for the right kinds of shells as part of its pledge to support Kyiv against its much better equipped adversary. But the Pentagon…
Lebanon’s fractured Parliament overcame more than two years of gridlock on Thursday to choose a new president, a critical step toward bringing stability to a country attempting to recover from economic catastrophe and a devastating war. Lawmakers elected Gen. Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese military, by an overwhelming majority in the second round…
