With the onset of the new year in a few hours, Croatia will adopt the euro currency and enter Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone after nearly a decade since joining the European Union. At midnight on January 1, 2023, the Balkan nation of some four million […]
A court in Mali has sentenced 46 soldiers from Ivory Coast to 20 years’ imprisonment for conspiring against the government, and three others to death in absentia. The soldiers were also fined more than $3,000 and convicted of carrying and transporting weapons, Prosecutor General Ladji […]
Barbara Walters, one of the most visible women on US television as the first female anchor on an American network evening news broadcast and one of television’s most prominent interviewers, has died at the age of 93. US television network ABC broke into its broadcast […]
If there is one word that has caught everyone’s attention in 2022, it is inflation. It has been a major concern for millions of people around the world and will remain so in 2023. All around the world, everyday goods and services are becoming more […]
At least four people have been killed and 12 others wounded in an attack on a police checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, according to Egyptian officials and medical sources. The dead included three police officers and a still unidentified person, a hospital […]
Venezuela’s opposition national assembly voted to remove interim President Juan Guaido, dissolve his government and appoint a commission to govern the country’s foreign assets, as lawmakers seek a united front ahead of elections slated for 2024. The vote, which came in an online session on […]
Ian Khama, the former president of Botswana, will contest an arrest warrant issued by a court for the possession of illegal firearms, his lawyer has said. Khama, who led Botswana from 2008 to 2018, left the country last year for neighbouring South Africa after falling […]
A rescue team walks through the grounds of the burned-out Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet on Thursday. (AFP Photo) POIPET, Cambodia: An electrical fault caused the devastating Poipet casino fire that killed 27 people, many of them Thais, Cambodian authorities said on Saturday. Many […]
Russian authorities have announced that soldiers and state employees deployed to fight in Ukraine will be exempt from income tax, Moscow’s latest effort to encourage support for a military campaign against Kyiv that has suffered multiple setbacks and defeats. The new tax measure concerns all […]
The year 2022 is coming to an end, and with it, another eventful 365 days in the United States and Canada. The political drama surrounding former US President Donald Trump continued as the Republican leader faced scrutiny for his business dealings, handling of classified documents […]
