BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s biggest trade unions mounted one of their fiercest challenges to the libertarian government of President Javier Milei, staging a mass general strike on Thursday that led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights and halted key bus, rail and subway lines. Main avenues and streets, as well as major…
North Korea’s former propaganda master Kim Ki Nam has died at the age of 94, said state media. He died due to old age and “multiple organ dysfunction” for which he had been receiving treatment since 2022, said KCNA. He had spent decades leading propaganda efforts in the totalitarian state, including building a personality cult…
SYDNEY, May 6 (Reuters) – A Chinese fighter jet endangered an Australian military helicopter during an “unsafe” and “unacceptable” confrontation over the Yellow Sea, Australia said on Monday. The Chinese air force J-10 jet dropped flares above and several hundred meters ahead of an Australian MH60R Seahawk helicopter which was on a routine flight on…
Haiti’s transitional council named former senate president Edgard Gardy Leblanc Fils as temporary president of the nation on Tuesday and tapped former youth minister Fritz Belizaire as interim prime minister. Fils and Belizaire are scheduled to hold their offices until February 2026, when the security situation in Haiti will hopefully have been stabilized enough to…
Nine men — including two Air Canada employees — are facing charges for allegedly stealing $14.5 million in gold in a “sensational” heist worthy of a “Netflix series” at a Canadian airport. Peel Regional Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of five men and the warrants for four others on the one-year anniversary of the…
Flames tore through the historic building in Denmark’s capital on Tuesday, toppling its iconic spire. One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings went up in flames on Tuesday. The blaze caused the 17th-century Old Stock Exchange to collapse, as passersby rushed to help emergency services save priceless paintings and other valuables. Danish Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said…
NSW premier Chris Minns said a ‘major and serious criminal investigation’ was under way New South Wales police are treating the alleged stabbing of a bishop during the live stream of a mass in western Sydney as a terrorist attack. The premier, Chris Minns, said the decision was taken early on Tuesday morning and validated…
A huge punch-up has erupted in Georgia’s parliament over a controversial foreign influence law, some say follows in the Kremlin’s authoritarian footsteps. A massive brawl happened inside the Georgian Parliament on Monday, during heated discussions over a law deemed Russian-esque by critics. The legislation under debate will compel media and non-commercial organisations to register as being…
An Israeli official on Thursday confirmed a report in Israeli media that the world’s largest Muslim nation is prepared to normalize relations with Israel in order to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The possibility of a normalization deal was first revealed by Israel’s largest daily newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, on Thursday. The…
April 11 (Reuters) – Russia and Germany on Thursday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs” in a region on edge over an Iranian threat to strike Israel. The German airline Lufthansa, one of only two Western carriers flying to Tehran,…