Invasion by 100,000 bats causes ‘natural disaster’ in Australian town
The striking optics of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit are what people are likely to remember – leaders from some of the most populous, influential and anti-American nations in the world chatting, eating and laughing together. The agreements struck at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit are not what onlookers are likely to remember….
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 political headache. Provisional data from the Home Office, or interior ministry, showed on Wednesday that…
President Emmanuel Macron will meet political party leaders on Thursday and address the nation on TV to call for unity and try to prevent any spillover of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in France, where there has been a rise in antisemitic acts. France has Europe’s largest Muslim and Jewish populations and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has in…
The news that the man accused of plotting the September 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices have reached plea deals that will reportedly spare their lives has sparked fury. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind, and two accomplices, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi, have agreed to plead guilty to charges related to the…
A Church of England bishop has called on the Archbishop of Canterbury to resign, calling his position “untenable” after a damning report into a prolific child abuser associated with the Church. Mr Welby is facing mounting pressure to resign after it emerged last week that he did not follow up rigorously enough on reports of…
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) – The United States announced on Friday that it will send Ukraine widely-banned cluster munitions as part of a security assistance package, a move Ukraine said would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on occupying Russian forces. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, laid out the case on Friday for…