Scientists have long warned that climate change will lead to more intense weather, such as heatwaves, floods and cyclones. Many point to record-breaking temperatures now in India and Pakistan as proof. Although heatwaves are common in the region, they do not usually start until May […]
Russia has carried out missile attacks across southern and eastern Ukraine, including one that destroyed the runway at Odesa airport. A group of 20 civilians have left the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in Mariupol, according to the Azov regiment. […]
Iraqi security forces seized more than six million pills of the amphetamine-type stimulant Captagon, making several arrests and breaking up a drug trafficking ring. “Around 6.2 million pills” were uncovered in a warehouse in the southwest of the capital, Baghdad, the national security agency said […]
Gaza City – Relatives of four Palestinian children who were killed by an Israeli air raid while playing on a Gaza beach eight years ago have denounced a decision by Israel’s Supreme Court to reject a request to reopen an investigation into the deaths as […]
The family of Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism during the 1994 Rwandan genocide was depicted in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda, have filed a $400m lawsuit in the US over his alleged abduction and torture by the government in Kigali. The lawsuit names the government of […]
New Delhi, India – “I only know big emotions,” says SS Rajamouli, currently India’s most commercially successful film director. Rajamouli, who makes films in Telugu, a language spoken in the southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, is talking about his latest blockbuster hit, […]
A Russian official tells state media that Moscow believes the risks of nuclear war should be kept to a minimum amid conflict in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says conditions in Kharkiv and Donbas are difficult and Ukraine is in “the fight for our lives”. […]
Rescuers in central China pulled five people alive from a partially collapsed building on Saturday where at least 18 others could still be trapped. The six-story building, which housed a hotel, apartments and a cinema, caved in on Friday afternoon in Changsha city, Hunan province, […]
Serbia has unveiled its new Chinese-made surface-to-air missiles, a display of military clout at a time when Belgrade is performing a delicate balancing act over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The purchase of the Chinese missile system, which was displayed publicly on Saturday, has raised concerns […]
Mino Raiola, one of football’s most powerful agents whose high-profile clients included Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Paul Pogba and Erling Haaland, has died at the age of 54, his family announced on Saturday. Raiola’s family did not say from what illness he had been suffering but he […]
