France said talks on Thursday between top US and European officials on the war in Ukraine had launched a “positive process,” as Europe seeks to be included in efforts to end the three-year-old conflict.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio again pressed a US peace plan during the discussions in Paris.Th
DIVISIONS: A retired air force pilot who initiated a letter said it was ‘crystal clear’ that the renewal of war was not for security reasons, but was political
When nearly 1,000 Israeli Air Force veterans signed an open letter last week calling for an end to the war in Gaza, the military responded immediately, saying it would dismiss any active reservist who signed the document. In the days since, thousands of retired and reservist soldiers across the mili
Talks between Iran and the US over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program are “in a very crucial” stage, the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday while on a visit to the Islamic Republic.The comments by International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi includ
Myanmar’s junta and a key opposition group have indicated they would extend a ceasefire to support more aid efforts after a devastating earthquake, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said yesterday, following rare high-level talks with the ruling military.Myanmar has been in the throes of an exp
NEW YEAR EVENT: If the freed people contravene the law again they would have to serve the remainder of their original sentence in addition to any new ones
The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to about 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported yesterday, but it was not immediately clear how many were political detainees locked up for opposing army rule.Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the h
‘NOT A GREAT UNIVERSITY’: The US president wrote that ‘Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning,’ while the US IRS might be poised to act
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Harvard a “joke” and said it should lose its government research contracts after the university refused to accept outside political supervision.Trump’s administration also threatened to ban the institute from accepting foreign students unless it bowed to
Sweden is getting up a head of steam for what could be a record number of Eurovision wins this year with a humorous sauna act.KAJ, a comedy group more accustomed to playing birthday parties than large arena shows, is already the bookies’ favorite to triumph at the extravaganza in Basel, Switzerland,
When the news came through of yet another massacre in the countryside in Nigeria’s volatile Plateau state, local Christian Jamaima Haruna was terrified for her Muslim husband.The slayings in Bokkos District left 52 dead — one of two major bouts of suspected intercommunal violence this month, in a st
A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico’s capital at about 3am on Wednesday, stretching over plains, volcanoes and small towns.Videos of a ball of fire shooting over the Latin American country and dissolving in a burst of light over Mexico City struck awe
Astronomers yesterday announced that they had detected the most promising “hints” of potential life on a planet beyond our solar system, although other scientists expressed skepticism.There has been debate in scientific circles about whether the planet K2-18b, which is 124 light-years away in the Le
ODESA MEETING: Mark Rutte said he was in the Ukrainian city because ‘Ukraine’s people deserve real peace, real safety and security in their country, in their homes’
Support for Ukraine remains “unwavering,” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday, adding that more than 20 billion euros (US$22.8 billion) in security assistance has already been pledged by members of the alliance in the first three months of the year.Rutte spoke in Ukraine’s port city of
‘WAKING UP EUROPE’: Protesters were welcomed in Strasbourg, where the European Parliament meets, by members of the Serbian diaspora and other backers
Serbian university students who say their fight for justice is being overlooked in much of Europe on Tuesday arrived to a hero’s welcome in the heart of the EU. They cycled more than 1,300km from the Balkan country.About 80 students who set off on bicycles 13 days earlier on a journey to Strasbourg,
Two Belgian teenagers on Tuesday were charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser-known species.Lornoy David and Seppe Lodewijckx, two 19-year-olds who were arrest
The association that represents academic staff at Canadian universities on Tuesday warned its members against nonessential travel to the US.The Canadian Association of University Teachers released updated travel advice due to the “political landscape” created by US President Donald Trump’s administr
Burglars tunneled through a concrete wall to gain access to a Los Angeles jewelry store, making off with at least US$10 million of watches, pendants, gold chains and other merchandise, police said on Tuesday.The heist happened at about 9:30pm on Sunday at Love Jewels on Broadway, Los Angeles Police
SOUTH KOREAYoon’s office searchedPolice yesterday searched the office of former president Yoon Suk-yeol and his security detail as part of a criminal probe into the impeached leader. Police said that they had “initiated the execution of a search-and-seizure warrant at the presidential office and the
APPORTIONING BLAME: The US president said that there were ‘millions of people dead because of three people’ — Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelenskiy
US President Donald Trump on Monday resumed his attempts to blame Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for Russia’s invasion, falsely accusing him of responsibility for “millions” of deaths.Trump — who had a blazing public row in the Oval Office with Zelenskiy six weeks ago — said the Ukranian sh
More than 400 people have been killed in recent attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the Darfur region, according to sources cited by the UN.The UN also said ahead of an international conference in London on ways to halt the war that 13 million people have been displaced by
Lawmakers on Monday overwhelmingly backed constitutional changes targeting the Hungary’s LGBTQ community and dual nationals, the latest step to strengthen Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s self-styled “illiberal” brand of democracy.Since his return to power in 2010, Hungary’s leader has widely
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