United Nations CNN — Russia on Thursday vetoed a United Nations resolution that would renew an independent panel of experts investigating North Korea’s violations of Security Council sanctions, at a time when Pyongyang has become a key supplier of munitions for Moscow’s war against Ukraine. In … Read More
BEIRUT, March 29 (Reuters) – Israel carried out its deadliest strikes in months on northern Syria’s Aleppo province early on Friday and said it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon, stepping up its campaign against Iran’s proxies in parallel … Read More
Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogging is because there is ‘no one to hold them accountable’ for abuses, say activists The Taliban’s announcement that it is resuming publicly stoning women to death has been enabled by the international … Read More
Brazilian authorities have confirmed 1,889,206 positive cases of dengue fever so far this year, thus surpassing 2015’s 1,688,688 and 2023’s 1,658,816, it was reported. In addition to 630 confirmed fatalities, another 1,009 deaths are under investigation since Jan. 1 to … Read More
LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – More than 4,600 asylum seekers have arrived in Britain on small boats so far in 2024, a record total for the first three months of the year and giving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak a fresh … Read More
Brazil is building a submarine fleet with France’s help. SAO PAULO — France is beefing up its defense ties with Brazil — shored up by President Emmanuel Macron’s first state visit to the country. The cooperation between the two was … Read More
QUITO, ECUADOR — An Ecuadoran mayor was found shot to death Sunday, police said, as the South American country approaches its third month of a state of emergency decreed by the government to crack down on soaring gang violence. Brigitte Garcia, … Read More
NEW DELHI, March 27 (Reuters) – India plans to spend nearly $3.7 billion to fence its 1,610-km (1,000-mile) porous border with Myanmar within about a decade, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter, to prevent smuggling and other … Read More
Five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver killed while en route from Islamabad to dam construction site Six people have been killed after a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy of Chinese engineers working on a dam project … Read More
Nicaragua’s communist regime authorized the establishment of a Russian-made “Instruction Center” for the “reengineering” of the Nicaraguan police, authorities confirmed last week. Local media and experts have denounced the center as a possible “cover-up” for a prospective Russian spy agency … Read More