Canada picks first Black House speaker
Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday elected Greg Fergus as its new speaker, making the Liberal Party lawmaker the first Black Canadian to hold the post after the previous ...
Russian prosecutors want to jail fugitive TV journalist for 9-1/2 years
Russian prosecutors have demanded a nine-and-a-half-year jail sentence for fugitive former state TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, famous for bursting into a news broadcast with a placard that read “Stop the ...
US senators examine TikTok hiring of ByteDance executives
Two US senators said they were investigating short video sharing app TikTok’s reported decision recently to hire several high-level executives from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance.
Senators Richard Blumenthal, ...
Serbia detains Kosovo Serb politician over deadly Kosovo shootout
Serbian authorities on Tuesday detained Kosovo Serb politician Milan Radoicic and accused him of manufacturing firearms and trafficking them to Kosovo,after he said he was involved in a deadly ...
Portugal to ditch tax breaks for foreign residents amid housing crisis
Tax breaks for foreign residents in Portugal are “no longer justified”, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said, promising to close the scheme for new applicants in 2024 after it stoked housing prices ...
Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun charges in Delaware court
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges that he lied about his drug use while buying a handgun, in the first-ever criminal prosecution ...
India police raid media office, journalists’ homes in illegal funding probe
Indian police raided the New Delhi office of a news portal and the homes of journalists and writers linked to it on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected ...
Moldova clears way for members of banned pro-Russia party to run in elections
Moldova’s Constitutional Court cleared the way on Tuesday for members of a banned pro-Russian party to run in local elections as independent candidates or as members of other parties.
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Four Karabakh leaders held in Azerbaijan, three more reach Armenia – agencies
Four ex-leaders of Azerbaijan’s formerly ethnic Armenian-controlled region of Nagorno-Karabakh have been detained by Azerbaijan’s State Security Service and taken to the capital Baku, the state-run Azerbaijani Press ...
Erdogan says Turkey expects more counter-terrorism support from allies
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he expected concrete steps from allies in support of Turkey’s counter-terrorism fight after a weekend bomb attack in Ankara, for which ...
Putin may soon announce run in Russia’s 2024 election
Russian President Vladimir Putin may soon indicate he will take part in a 2024 presidential election, Kommersant newspaper reported on Tuesday, paving the way for the Kremlin chief to stay in ...
UK Chancellor: I’d love to lower taxes before election but cuts inflationary
British Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday he would love to lower taxes in the run-up to a national election expected next year, but added that any tax cut at ...
They’re just meat’: Russia deploys punishment battalions in echo of Stalin
Drunk recruits. Insubordinate soldiers. Convicts.
They’re among hundreds of military and civilian offenders who’ve been pressed into Russian penal units known as “Storm-Z” squads and sent to the ...
Thai police arrest 14-yr-old suspected gunman after 3 killed at Bangkok mall
Thai police on Tuesday said they had arrested a 14-year-old suspected gunman after a shooting at a luxury mall in the capital Bangkok that emergency services said had killed three ...
Pennsylvania mummy ‘Stoneman Willie’ to receive proper burial after 128 years
A mummified man known as Stoneman Willie will receive a proper burial after being on display at a funeral home in Reading, Pennsylvania, for 128 years.
The unidentified man was an ...
Russia says 335,000 sign up to fight, no plans for new mobilisation
Russia has no plans for an additional mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine as more than 335,000 have signed up so far this year to fight in the armed forces ...
C-3PO’s head, ‘Titanic’ costumes for sale at Propstore film auction
From “Star Wars” droid C-3PO’s head to Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Titanic” costume, a trove of costumes and props are headed to auction next month in a sale of ...
Trio win 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for use of light to study electrons
Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for using pulses of light to study the behaviour of electrons, in work which could ...
ICRC combs streets of ‘deserted’ Karabakh capital for stranded residents
Only a few hundred people remain behind in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, including the sick, disabled and elderly, an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) official said on Tuesday, ...
Turkey arrests 145 people over suspected links to Kurdish militants
Turkish police detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported on Tuesday, two days after a bomb attack ...
Rouble recovers slightly after slide past 100 vs dollar
The Russian rouble weakened past the symbolic threshold of 100 to the dollar before recovering slightly in early trade on Tuesday, weighed down by foreign currency outflows and the country’s ...
El Chapo’s sons going ‘soft’; fentanyl production and sale banned in Sinaloa?
A powerful faction of the Sinaloa cartel led by the sons of ex-Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has banned fentanyl production and sales in Sinaloa, according to roadside ...
Trump reaped over $100 million through fraud, New York says as trial starts
A defiant Donald Trump attacked New York’s attorney general and the judge overseeing his civil fraud trial as it began on Monday, with a state lawyer accusing the former ...
US bond market signals the end of an era
The US bond market is calling a moment: the age of low interest rates and inflation that began with the 2008 financial crisis has ended. What follows is unclear.
The market’...