In total, the luxury cargo weighed more than 2 tons and quickly caught the eye of the customs officers, whose inspection routine and experience give them a good sense of which shipments could contain counterfeit brands. These included, for example, 14,564 pairs of counterfeit sunglasses, […]
Miloš Zeman and Alexander Van der Bellen described Austrian-Czech relations as “completely free of conflict and friendly,” even if there were different positions on nuclear energy. “Friends should discuss and not create conflicts from different views,” Miloš Zeman stressed. Alexander Van der Bellen pointed out […]
Syria’s foreign ministry has condemned a surprise visit by the United States’ top military officer to an army base in the Kurdish-held northeast, dubbing it “illegal”, state media reported. In his snap visit on Saturday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley […]
Azerbaijani troops and ethnic Armenians have exchanged gunfire in Azerbaijan’s contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing at least five people. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said on Sunday two servicemen were killed after Azerbaijani troops stopped a convoy it suspected of carrying weapons from the region’s main town […]
The United Nations’ nuclear agency says Iran has pledged to cooperate with the monitoring of its sites. It comes after a visit to Tehran by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi. His trip followed reports that the IAEA had found particles […]
Clashes have erupted between police and a group of demonstrators outside the Greek parliament in Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece’s deadliest train crash in living memory. A small group of protesters hurled petrol bombs […]
Kyiv has said it is holding off attacks from Russian forces still attempting to surround Bakhmut, a near-destroyed eastern Ukrainian city that Moscow has been trying to capture for months. Ukraine has pledged to defend “fortress Bakhmut” but has faced Russian troops determined to take […]
Liverpool brought Manchester United’s bandwagon to a shuddering halt as Cody Gakpo, Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah all scored twice in a record 7-0 hammering of their archrivals to boost their Premier League top-four hopes at Anfield on Sunday. A week after a resurgent United […]
A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya in southern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. No casualties were reported immediately at the Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district, said Emdadul Haque, a fire […]
A massive fire raced through a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh, leaving thousands homeless, a fire official and the United Nations said. The blaze hit Camp 11 in Cox’s Bazar, a border district where more than a million Rohingya refugees live, […]
