Biden and South Korean president mull expanding joint military exercises
US president willing to meet Kim Jong-un, while Seoul says deployment of US ‘strategic assets’ was discussed Joe Biden and his South Korean counterpart, Yoon...
Month : May 2022
Canada puts sanctions on Russian media tycoon Alexander Lebedev
Oligarch with links to Boris Johnson among 14 businessmen and associates of Vladimir Putin targeted Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates Canada has put sanctions on Alexander...
France and Spain swelter as Cyclone Yakecan wreaks havoc in South America
Analysis: Another week of extremes with peaks pushing 40C in Spain and a rare subtropical cyclone in Uruguay and Brazil Unseasonably high temperatures have been...
UK deportation flight to Jamaica takes off with seven onboard
Home Office initially had 100 people on list of Jamaican nationals to be removed, say reports A Home Office deportation flight to Jamaica took off...
Canadian premier abruptly quits amid surge in far-right influences
Conservative Jason Kenney, Alberta premier, leaves province’s top job after barely surviving a leadership review The abrupt resignation of Alberta’s premier has shocked the western...
Canada to ban Huawei and ZTE from 5G network, risking China tensions
Move brings Ottawa into line with intelligence allies that have excluded Chinese tech firms from cutting-edge phone networks Canada says it will ban Huawei and...
Doncaster and Milton Keynes among eight towns awarded city status
Stanley in Falkland Islands also becomes city after contest marking Queen’s platinum jubilee year Doncaster, Milton Keynes and Stanley in the Falkland Islands have been...
Widow of man killed in Libya accuses South Africa of ‘silence’ in hunt for his body
The South African government sent Anton Hammerl’s passport to his widow in 2016 but has refused to say how it came to have it The...
Mozambique confirms first wild poliovirus case in 30 years
Case in child in Tete province follows detection of similar strain in Malawi in February, officials say Mozambique has identified its first case of wild...
‘Huge spike’ in global conflict caused record number of displacements in 2021
Those fleeing combat were internally displaced 14.4m times, with biggest toll in sub-Saharan Africa, report reveals Conflict and violence forced people from their homes a...
