Friday, April 26, 2024

World

300 Nigerian inmates escape after suspected Islamist raid

Around 300 inmates are on the run after a suspected raid by Islamist Boko Haram militants on a prison in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Tuesday night, an interior ministry official...

815 hit by vomiting bug at Stuttgart spring festival

A norovirus outbreak at a festival in south-west Germany has affected more than 800 people. They caught the vomiting...

King Charles to resume public duties next week

Britain’s King Charles III will resume public duties next week following “a period of treatment and recuperation,” Buckingham Palace announced...

Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned in New York

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction in New York has been overturned, on the basis that...

Russian deputy defence minister Timur Ivanov accused of taking bribes

A Russian deputy defence minister has been accused of taking bribes and remanded in custody by a court...

Deadly flooding in Indonesia

JAKARTA – Flash floods and landslides killed 24 people in Indonesia’s Central Java province, officials said on Sunday, forcing residents to evacuate to safer...

Gun control before Supreme Court

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in this week on gun control, an issue smouldering again following the June 12 Orlando massacre,...

Algeria blocks Facebook, Twitter to stop cheating

ALGIERS – Algerian authorities have temporarily blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to try to stop cheats posting high school...

DiCaprio to be deposed over film

NEW YORK – A federal judge has ordered actor Leonardo DiCaprio to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit brought by a former Stratton Oakmont...

Cameron gets boost in fight against leaving EU

LONDON – The campaign to keep Britain in the European Union (EU) regained its lead in two opinion polls published on Saturday, giving a...

Obama and Biden visit Orlando victims

ORLANDO – President Barack Obama on Thursday met survivors of a massacre at an Orlando gay nightclub and relatives of the 49 people killed...