Israel carried out strikes across Lebanon on Saturday, killing at least eight people in the south according to authorities, with raids also targeting a highway not far from Beirut outside of Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds. At least 8 killed as Israel pounds Lebanon despite truce The fresh attacks were some of the most intense since the…
Last year Amahle-Imvelo Jaxa posted a TikTok video about South African peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She explained an argument that had erupted between the South African and Rwandan presidents, then listed roles different South African groups would play in a war with Rwanda: the Sotho strategists, the Xhosa negotiators, the Afrikaner…
A hardline faction inside Iran has stepped up its opposition to ongoing negotiations with the United States. This domestic resistance comes as talks between Tehran and Washington reach a critical peak. Jebhe-ye Paydari believes Iran should strictly follow revolutionary and religious principles (REUTERS) The US, earlier this week, delivered a one-page memorandum to Iranian officials…
Three Indian-origin persons have been found guilty for the first-degree murder of a Canadian couple in Abbotsford in 2022, a Canada court ruled on Friday. The three accused, in their 20s, had pleaded not guilty. (Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press via AP) Arnold and Joanne De Jong were found dead in their home in Arcadian Way,…
THE NETS enclosing the inner harbour draw open. A black-finned predator slips out. Minutes later it reaches the open ocean and, with a great exhalation, disappears beneath the tropical waters. Getting under way from Apra Harbour in Guam, the USS Annapolis, one of the ocean’s apex hunters, is engaged in a silent but intensifying contest…
IT IS SOMETIMES said, not least by President Donald Trump, that America and China are now the G2, a duo of superpowers leading the world. That is a grim thought. One has a leader who treats allies like patsies and is ripping apart the institutions that underpinned global stability for decades. The other has an…
SYDNEY, May 9 (Reuters) – Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed. The result is in line with a surge of electoral support for far-right populist parties globally. Britain’s ruling Labour party this week…
One reason it’s so hard to interpret what’s going on with the U.S. job market these days? It is doing some puzzling things. One reason it’s so hard to interpret what’s going on with the U.S. job market these days? It is doing some puzzling things. Start with unemployment. On Friday, the Labor Department reported…
MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Saturday said that the United States was in a hurry to clinch a peace deal to end the Ukraine war but that getting to any sort of agreement was a very long way off because the issues were so complicated. Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that…
By Matt Spetalnick and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) – With his decision to pull some U.S. troops from Germany, his threats to draw down forces elsewhere in Europe and his downplaying of Iran’s recent attacks on an important Gulf partner, President Donald Trump’s latest moves foreshadow what could be the war’s enduring legacy:…