Category: Global News

Notre-Dame: First look inside refurbished cathedral France’s Emmanuel Macron has praised workers for achieving the “impossible” task of restoring Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral after a major fire engulfed the Gothic jewel in 2019. On Friday the world had a first look inside a resplendent new Notre-Dame as Macron conducted a televised tour to mark the cathedral’s…

A power cut plunged Zimbabwe’s parliament into darkness as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube was finishing his budget speech. The lights flickered and died, leaving top officials like President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and members of parliament sitting in the dark. The outage is a symptom of Zimbabwe’s ongoing crisis, with daily 12-hour blackouts driven…

Sweden has formally asked China to co-operate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents. The cables – one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany – were damaged in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea on…

An £18 billion ($22.5 billion) completely driverless metro network is set to open this weekend as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 to bolster tourism and diversify the economy.    The Riyadh Metro system, which was inaugurated by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Wednesday, is capable of transporting 3.6 million passengers per day, covering 109…