Category: World

In South Africa, rioting and looting rocked parts of the country again overnight. The trouble began last week after the country’s former leader Jacob Zuma was jailed, and police say more than 70 people have been killed and 1,200 arrested. Nick Schifrin reports. Source link

Jane Ferguson: Inspired by figures like Ellen DeGeneres, Taban wanted to build a platform that was light enough for her to show the famous and powerful in a way they haven’t been seen before, relaxed. She faced numerous challenges building her career. After a 2016 bombing killed seven media workers, […]

WASHINGTON – Former US vice-president Mike Pence urged President Joe Biden to keep up the pressure on China, criticising the Democratic administration for “already rolling over” for Beijing on Wednesday (July 15) in his latest speech since leaving office. Mr Pence called on Mr Biden to de-list Chinese companies that […]

The European Union and China presented sweeping plans to limit greenhouse-gas emissions that will increase costs for industry and consumers, but they drew criticism from environmentalists as not going far enough to slow climate change. The moves, while both long discussed and still months or years from full implementation, show […]

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the government plans to ban anyone guilty of online racist abuse from soccer matches as authorities continue to respond to the lawlessness connected to England’s loss in the final of the European soccer championship. Johnson on Wednesday told lawmakers that it […]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—At least nine Chinese construction workers and four Pakistanis were killed when an explosion blew a bus off the road in northern Pakistan, the deadliest incident for Chinese nationals in the country in recent years. Officials from the two countries gave conflicting initial accounts of the cause of Wednesday’s […]

PARIS (REUTERS) – Police in Paris clashed with protesters railing against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to require a Covid-19 vaccine certificate or negative PCR test to gain entry to bars, restaurants and cinemas from next month. Macron this week announced sweeping measures to fight a rapid surge in new coronavirus […]

The Biden administration is set to begin evacuations of Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war, an administration official said. The Operation Allies Refuge flights out of Afghanistan during the last week of July will be available first for special immigrant […]

OPEC reached a compromise with the United Arab Emirates, agreeing to lift the amount of oil the cartel member can eventually pump as part of a wider agreement with Russia-led producers to boost global supplies, according to people familiar with the matter. Crude prices fell immediately after news of the deal, […]

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was discharged from a Rome hospital and returned home to the Vatican on Wednesday, 10 days after undergoing surgery to remove half his colon. Francis, 84, gave thanks for the success of the operation and offered prayers for others during a visit en route home […]