US-funded Radio Free Asia shuts down in Hong Kong over safety concerns
News service says it closed bureau after passing of new national security law known as Article 23 US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its...
Month : March 2024
British Museum investigated over Ethiopian artefacts hidden from view for 150 years
Watchdog examining claims key details have not been disclosed about altar tablets it is facing calls to return The British Museum is being investigated by...
Niagara region declares emergency to prepare for eclipse viewers
Total solar eclipse on 8 April will be first to touch province since 1979, and Niagara Falls is declared one of the best places to...
Two men in Haiti suspected of buying weapons for gangs lynched by mob
Killings underscore how outnumbered police are in Haiti after months of attacks and kidnappings by gangs Two men in Haiti were hacked to death by...
Home of Peru’s president raided in search of luxury watches
The government criticised the move, with the country’s prime minister calling it ‘disproportionate and unconstitutional’ Peru’s government on Saturday criticised the raid on the home...
Ontario moves to allow use of Indigenous languages in legislature
‘Momentous change’ will permit lawmakers in Canadian province to address chamber in ‘first languages’ Lawmakers in Ontario will now be able to address the province’s...
‘Potentially serious impropriety’: Labour questions Johnson’s Venezuela meeting
Former PM’s meeting with President Maduro, in capacity as hedge fund consultant, is under further scrutiny Labour is demanding answers over what the party said...
Macron rekindles France-Brazil relationship in widely memed Lula visit
Photos of French president’s three-day trip to Brazil to reaffirm countries’ partnership delight internet observers If the official photos are anything to go by, Emmanuel...
Bolivian Indigenous groups assert claim to treasure of ‘holy grail of shipwrecks’
Descendants of enslaved miners who dug up gold, silver and emeralds worth billions call on Colombia to halt plan to lift cargo Indigenous communities in...
Lula dismays relatives of dictatorship’s victims by ignoring coup anniversary
Brazil’s president has nixed commemorations of the 1964 coup, possibly to avoid irking the military as senior officers facing jail for allegedly conspiring to stop...
