Bolivia’s Morales keeps up comeback hopes as Copa Evo kicks off
Some see youth football tournament as former president’s latest attempt to remain in running for 2025 elections Politics and football have long mixed in South...
Month : July 2022
US airman who rescued film of A-bomb horrors is honoured at last
Cameraman Daniel McGovern copied footage of Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastation to ensure lessons were learned The photograph shows devastation in Nagasaki after the atomic bomb:...
Australian tourist in serious condition after falling into thermal sinkhole in New Zealand
The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central North Island An Australian woman has been seriously...
Thailand’s gay-romance TV dramas help revive flagging tourism industry
The popularity of ‘boy-love’ series sends fans from home and abroad flocking to filming locations across the country There is a table in Soontaree Thiprat’s...
China conducts military exercises off Taiwan after warning Pelosi to scrap visit
PLA carries out ‘live-fire exercises’ after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told not to visit the island democracy China said it was conducting military exercises...
Oxford University may return items looted from Nigeria by Britain in 1897
University council supports claim for 97 artefacts, including bronzes, currently held in city’s museums Oxford University could return almost 100 artefacts that were looted by...
‘Logic of brute force’ is rising in Indo-Pacific, says Japan amid China concerns
Japan’s foreign minister tells Washington audience world at ‘historical crossroads’ and that Russian invasion of Ukraine must not succeed Japan’s foreign minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, has...
Spain reports first death in Europe related to monkeypox outbreak
Announcement on Friday follows report hours earlier from Brazil of first such death outside Africa Spain has reported what is thought to be Europe’s first...
As more space junk falls to Earth, will China clean up its act?
Parts of a 23-tonne piece of rocket will come crashing down – somewhere – in the next few days In the next few days, a...
Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses
Naomi Klein and Caroline Lucas among signatories to letter voicing concerns over country’s hosting of climate summit A hundred days before the Cop27 summit is...
