Category: World

Italy and China on Sunday signed a three-year pact for economic cooperation, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said after a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang. Meloni said during her state visit in Beijing that she aims to use the document to explore new opportunities for cooperation with China, but the exact contents of the...

Antonio Guterres warned Earth was becoming “hotter and more dangerous for everyone, everywhere,” as he pointed to a deadly heatwave hitting Africa’s Sahel region, 1,300 people dying in scorching conditions in the Hajj in Saudi Arabia, record temperatures in the United States and Europe’s “sweatbox cities.” And the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service declared Sunday...

Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, a key figure in Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and one of the country’s most influential drug lords, has been arrested in El Paso, a US border city. US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest on Thursday, which also involved Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Zambada’s former partner and infamous cartel...

At least 21 people have died due to high temperatures in a Moroccan city, health authorities in the North African country said on Thursday. The deaths were registered on Wednesday in the city of Beni Mellal, about 300 kilometres south of the capital Rabat, the kingdom’s state news agency MAP reported, citing local health authorities....

Business and institutions around the world have been been knocked offline after a major IT outage. In the UK, Sky News is off air, while Britain’s biggest train company warned passengers to expect disruption because of “widespread IT issues.” Around the world banks, supermarkets and other major institutions reported computer issues disrupting services, with some...

At least 20 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in waves of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday. Kiev was among the cities worst impacted with seven dead and at least nine injured, the city administration said. Kryvyi Rih in southern Ukraine was also badly hit...

The Turkish Maarif Foundation (TMV), a state-run educational body, will take over schools in Burkina Faso affiliated with the Gülen movement, a worldwide civic initiative inspired by the ideas of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gülen, the TR724 news website reported on Thursday. The Horizon International School Complex in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, was started...

The United States will soon supply Ukraine with a further $2.3 billion in military aid to bolster its almost 30-month fight against invading Russian forces. The package approved by US President Joe Biden includes “more air defense inceptors, anti-tank weapons, and other critical munitions from US inventories,” Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday...

Bodies are still being pulled from the waters off the Italian coast after a boat carrying migrants capsized earlier this week. Fourteen more bodies were found about 200 kilometres from the mainland on Friday, the coastguard said. The number of confirmed dead from the accident on Sunday night is now at 34 and it is...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen made her first remarks after a man attacked her in central Copenhagen and led her to be treated in hospital for a minor whiplash injury. Frederiksen expressed her gratitude on Instagram for the many messages of support following Friday’s incident. “It’s incredibly touching,” she wrote Saturday evening. “I am saddened...