Chinese Minister Embarks on 8-Nation Pacific Trip to Boost Alliances
Read More Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will embark on a 10-day trip to the Solomon Islands and seven other Pacific Island nations this week to boost Beijing’s alliances with the nations. China’s Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Wang would visit the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, and Timor […]
Floods Kill 25 in India’s Assam, Displace Thousands
Read More People stand on a road damaged by the flood waters after heavy rains in Nagaon district, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, on May 19, 2022. (Anuwar Hazarika/Reuters) GUWAHATI, India—Flash floods and landslides in India’s northeast Assam state killed at least 25 people and displaced over 650,000 from their homes in the […]
Davos: How SA can build a digitally competitie future based on trust
Read More The World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos under the theme “working together, restoring trust” should give pause for thought to anyone working to make South Africa a better place. Whether you’re in business, government, or civil society, the building of a resilient and thriving country is our goal and digital transformation must […]
Russia-Ukraine war latest: Russians trying to destroy Donbas, says Zelenskiy, as fighting intensifies – live
Read More The ?4.25bn takeover of Chelsea football club has been completed after Roman Abramovich agreed to the UK government’s terms for the sale, ending a tumultuous period that raised fears over the club’s existence in the wake of the Ukraine war. A new era at Stamford Bridge can officially begin after a bid led […]
Partygate live: Sue Gray report expected to be published within hours amid fresh details of No 10 drinking culture
Read More From 15m ago Copies of the Sue Gray report have now arrived at No 10, the Mirror’s Pippa Crear reports. Junior officials at No 10 feel as if they have been “hung out to dry” over Partygate, Lord Kerslake, a former head of the civil service, said this morning. Kerslake, who has also […]
Sandy Hook families speak out after Uvalde school shooting
Read More The families of people killed in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting have pleaded for action on gun control in the wake of the killings at Robb elementary school in Texas. Erica Leslie Lafferty, whose mother was killed in the massacre in Connecticut in 2012, said that it was “beyond time to take […]
North Korea launches 3 test missiles as Biden leaves Asia
Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! North Korea allegedly launched three test missiles into the sea on Wednesday local time, according to South Korea. The purported missile tests came just hours after U.S. President Joe Biden left Asia, where he restated his commitment to defend U.S. allies against North Korea’s nuclear […]
Works to fill Sea of Galilee uncover 2,100-year-old farmstead – and a mystery
Read More Dig a hole in Israel, and you may well find something. The latest revelation thanks to infrastructure works is the discovery of a 2,100-year-old farmstead in the Galilee – which seems to have been abandoned in haste, the archaeologists suspect. Coins, the pottery and other finds date the farm at Horvat Assad to […]
Australian PM Calls on Beijing to Remove Trade Sanctions
Read More New Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has continued Australia’s tough stance towards Beijing’s economic coercion on local exporters, telling the Chinese regime that they should remove tariffs on export products if they wished to see diplomatic ties restored. This comes after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Premier Li Keqiang sent a congratulatory letter to […]
New Zealand Increases Official Cash Rate to Rein in Inflation
Read More The New Zealand Reserve Bank has hiked interest rates by half a percentage point to two percent as it battles to contain inflation, which is currently at a 30-year high of 6.9 percent. It is the second consecutive 50 basis points (bp) increase to two percent, with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand […]