Move shows ‘what is happening to the Uyghurs is unacceptable’, says MP after non-binding parliamentary ballot with prime minister’s support Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China, but are now facing … Read More
LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – Major central banks are steadily moving closer to a pause in their aggressive interest rate hiking campaigns. The U.S. Federal Reserve has just implemented its smallest rise of its tightening cycle so far. The European … Read More
All roads lead to Rome, as the saying goes, and the most prestigious is the Appian Way, the strategic highway for the Roman Empire now hoping to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A paved road of more than 500 … Read More
SANTIAGO/BRASILIA, Jan 30 (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s bid this week to rally support for Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion during his first South American tour fell flat, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reiterating … Read More
María Branyas Morera, born in 1907, now in Guinness record books after death of Lucille Randon, 118, in French town of Toulon María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and … Read More
The metals and minerals discovered could be enough to “cover many years of global consumption”, according to researchers, who add they could aid in the manufacture of wind turbines and electric vehicles. Norway has discovered what it calls “substantial” levels … Read More
ANKARA, Jan 26 (Reuters) – Two provocative incidents in Stockholm this month have energised Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ahead of tight elections and dimmedSweden and Finland’s hopes of joining NATO before the summer, diplomats, analysts and opposition politicians say. Erdogan … Read More
Rwanda government has confirmed that it shot a warplane belonging to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for violating its airspace. On Tuesday, a video circulated of a projectile shooting a Sukhoi-25 fighter plane. Other videos and pictures also circulated … Read More
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whose empathetic handling of the nation’s worst mass-shooting and health-driven response to the coronavirus pandemic led her to become an international icon, but who faced mounting criticism at home, said Thursday she was leaving … Read More
Ukraine’s interior minister was among at least 14 people killed after a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside Kyiv on Wednesday, authorities said. The cause of the crash, which comes as the country’s war with Russia approaches the 11-month mark, … Read More