Former Japan PM Abe shot, feared dead

Read More Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot at a campaign event on Friday, a government spokesman said, as local media reported the ex-leader was showing no vital signs. “Former prime minister Abe was shot at around 11:30 am,” in the country’s western region of Nara, chief cabinet secretary Hirokazu Matsuno told reporters. […]

Race to replace Boris Johnson slow to take shape amid resignation chaos

Read More Even before Boris Johnson delivered his ill-tempered exit speech, Conservative MPs’ focus had already switched to who might succeed him – and unlike in 2019, when he had been the prince across the water for months, this time there is no obvious successor. Rishi Sunak, who walked out of the Treasury on Tuesday […]

Bulelani Ngcuka: A whistleblower?

Read More “So, let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never really be completed about a world we can never really understand.” — Phil Graham, US newspaperman,1963. If newspapers are the first rough draft of history the world should be […]

Amid heckling, Pravin Gordhan warns of state capture 2.0

Read More South Africa’s beleaguered state-owned entities (SOEs) are still vulnerable to capture.  This is according to Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, who warned that there are people who still wish to extract resources from the state by destabilising its institutions. “There are people amongst us, and perhaps outside as well, who perhaps don’t want […]

Heavy Monsoon Rains Leave 77 Dead Over 3 Weeks in Pakistan

Read More A flooded area in Quetta, Pakistan, on July 6, 2022, in a still from video. (AP/Screenshot via The Epoch Times) QUETTA, Pakistan—At least 77 people, including women and children, have died in rain-related incidents across Pakistan during the past three weeks, officials said Wednesday. The monsoon rains also damaged homes, roads, bridges, and […]

Shinzo Abe Taken to Hospital After Reportedly Being Shot, Suspect Arrested

Read More Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference at the prime minister official residence on Aug. 28, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Franck Robichon – Pool/Getty Images) Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been taken to hospital bleeding after reportedly being shot in Nara, a city in western Japan, public broadcaster […]

Putin claims Russia’s war in Ukraine is just beginning

Post Content NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West of waging a proxy war in Ukraine on Thursday and said that the world should know the war is just beginning, nearly five months after launching the invasion. “Everybody should know that largely speaking, we haven’t even yet […]