Conservation experts in the United States have pulled buttons, coins, documents and other artefacts from a time capsule found in the remnants of a pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee in the US state of Virginia. The lead conservator […]
Brazil’s government has announced $35.5m (200 million Brazilian reais) in disaster relief funds for the country’s northeast, where 20 people have died and tens of thousands have been displaced by severe flooding. A total of 116 cities in the northeastern state of Bahia were in […]
The jury in Elizabeth Holmes’s fraud case is on its fifth day of deliberations, and trial-watchers who sat through 14 weeks of testimony could hardly be blamed for getting antsy. But if many of the other high-profile white-collar crime trials are any indication, Holmes’s jury […]
With temperatures in normally mild Seattle dropping well below freezing, Kaety West walked a short distance in the snow from the tent where she usually stays to find refuge at a small warming centre at an American Legion hall. “I’m not even willing to stay […]
Kuwait has formed a new cabinet with a new finance minister and including three opposition legislators following a standoff between previous governments and the parliament. Oil Minister Mohammad al-Fares was reappointed in the new cabinet announced on Tuesday. Abdul Wahab al-Rasheed, head of the non-governmental […]
Several European countries have reported record high COVID-19 cases, as the Omicron variant continues to surge across the continent. France reported a record high of 179,807 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period on Tuesday, by far the highest daily number since the start […]
The Gambia’s Supreme Court has dismissed a plea by the country’s main opposition party to annul the outcome of the December 4 presidential election, in which incumbent Adama Barrow was announced the winner. Ousainou Darboe, leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), said the election […]
Iran for the second time this year ordered a shutdown of authorized cryptocurrency mining centers as part of efforts to ease the strain on the country’s power plants and avoid blackouts, according to Mostafa Rajabi Mashhadi, director of the state-run Iran Grid Management Co. and […]
US President Joe Biden has formally ordered an end to travel restrictions on eight southern African countries imposed last month to slow the spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant, saying that the curbs are “no longer necessary to protect the public health”. Biden issued a […]
Dozens of Rohingya refugees who were intercepted after their boat ran into trouble off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province were being sent into Malaysian waters, authorities said. At least 100 people, mostly women and children, on board a wooden vessel said to be taking […]
