Category: World News
Cairo (AFP) – Arab foreign ministers on Wednesday denounced Israel’s siege of Gaza following the shock attack by Palestinian militants on Israel, demanding that aid be “immediately” allowed to enter the blockaded enclave. Israel has imposed a “complete siege” on the…
LONDON (Reuters) –Britain’s King Charles and his wife Camilla will travel to Kenya for a four-day state visit at the end of this month where he will acknowledge “painful aspects” of its colonial past, Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday. It…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia was defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the U.N.’s premiere human rights body by a significant majority in Tuesday’s election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its…
SWI-Julia Crawford-Today the UN General Assembly in New York will vote for 15 new members of the 47-member Human Rights Council. With gross human rights abusers Russia, China and Burundi among the candidates, the credibility of the Geneva-based Council is…
The UK’s King Charles III starts a three-day state visit to France on Wednesday meant to highlight both nations’ friendship, after the trip was postponed in March amid widespread demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension changes. Charles and Queen Camilla…
London (AFP) – Charles III finally makes it across the Channel from Britain to France this week, six months after rioting and strikes forced the last-minute postponement of his first state visit as king. The 74-year-old British head of state’s rescheduled…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. and Britain on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini whilst in Iran’s morality police custody, which sparked months of anti-government protests that faced…
LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles has trodden a cautious but successful path in his first year on the British throne, friends and royal watchers say, but rifts within his family still hang over his reign. Charles, 74, succeeded his mother…
Libreville (AFP) – Military officers announced on Wednesday overturning the government in Gabon, in an apparent coup targeting President Ali Bongo Ondimba who has been in power for 14 years and whose re-election was just announced. The status of Ali Bongo,…
Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, was on board a plane that crashed in Russia on Wednesday, leaving no survivors, according to Russian media reports. While many details are yet to be confirmed, many Russia watchers wonder how and…
