Category: World News
The Nobel Peace Prize was on Friday awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, who are also known as Hibakusha. The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on…
France has posthumously honoured six African soldiers who were among dozens shot and killed by colonial troops and French gendarmes in Senegal in 1944. The soldiers had been demanding back pay after being repatriated from Germany, where they were held…
The Labour Party won a landslide victory in the UK general election on Thursday, making Keir Starmer the country’s first Labour prime minister in 14 years. Starmer’s victory caps a remarkable political rise for the former human rights lawyer and…
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday, naming July 4 as the date for a vote his governing Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after 14 years in power. British PM…
LONDON(Reuters) – Four current British newspaper editors and a string of other senior press figures have been named in a privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public figures against the publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is considering changing the law to stop a foreign state owning a news organisation, government sources said on Tuesday, as it weighs up whether to allow Abu-Dhabi-backed Redbird IMI to buy the Telegraph newspaper. The bid…
LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles on Monday hailed the work of the Commonwealth as it celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, although the British monarch will be absent from annual celebrations for the organisation he leads as he recuperates from…
New York (AFP) – Seventy-seven of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Thursday. Killings of…
A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk to testify again about his purchase of “X” (formerly Twitter), giving both Musk and the SEC a week to agree on when and where the interview will happen. The judge’s order, issued last…
Russian President Vladimir Putin will give an interview to Tucker Carlson, the right-wing US talk show host says © NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA , GIORGIO VIERA / AFP/File Moscow (AFP) – Tucker Carlson, a firebrand American talk show host close to former US president…
