Giorno: 24 Gennaio 2023

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy fires top-level officials in anticorruption purge, with more to come, he warns

Ukraine saw a series of resignations among top officials Tuesday as Kyiv looks to tamp down on cases of corruption with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warning more will likely come. “We have already made personnel decisions – some today, some tomorrow – regarding officials of various levels in ministries and other central government bodies, in […]

Indian court approves extradition request for prime suspect in 2018 Australian beach murder case

A court in New Delhi on Tuesday approved an extradition request for the prime suspect in the killing of a woman on an Australian beach four years ago. Rajwinder Singh, who is of Indian origin, was arrested in November on the outskirts of the Indian capital. His arrest came three weeks after he was targeted […]

World War II-era map leading to alleged Nazi loot sparks modern-day treasure hunt in the Netherlands

A hand-drawn map with a red letter X purportedly showing the location of a buried stash of precious jewelry looted by Nazis from a blown-up bank vault has sparked a modern-day treasure hunt in a tiny Dutch village more than three quarters of a century later. Wielding metal detectors, shovels and copies of the map […]

Nepal earthquake rattles villages in the Himalayan mountains, 1 person confirmed dead

An earthquake in Nepal rattled villages in remote Himalayan mountains on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring many more, officials said. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake with an epicenter in Bajura district hit in the afternoon, sending people fleeing their houses, according to the chief district officer, Puskar Khadka. He said one person was […]

Prominent environmental group suing German government over failure to meet its own climate targets

A prominent environmental group said Tuesday that it is suing the German government over the failure to meet its own climate targets. Friends of the Earth Germany, also known as BUND, said in its submission to the Berlin-Brandenburg administrative court that the government should be required to put forward an emergency program for the transport […]

Pakistan to Probe If ‘External Interference’ Caused Power Failure: Energy Minister

Read More Shopkeepers sit at a market during a nationwide power outage, in Islamabad, on Jan. 23, 2023. – A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Jan. 23 affected most of the country’s more than 220 million people, including in the mega cities of Karachi and Lahore. (Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images) Pakistan’s energy minister […]

ANC backs deputy mayor from its smaller coalition partners for eThekwini

Read More The ANC will back a candidate from one of the small parties in the eThekwini metro council as deputy mayor of Durban at a meeting scheduled for Thursday 26 January to replace Philani Mavundla, who was removed by a no confidence vote in December.  The block is now led by the National Freedom […]

Yevgeny Prigozhin: the hotdog seller who rose to the top of Putin’s war machine

Read More At the height of Russia’s first, covert invasion of eastern Ukraine, in summer 2014, a group of senior Russian officials gathered at the defence ministry’s headquarters, an imposing Stalin-era building on the banks of the Moskva River. They were there to meet Yevgeny Prigozhin, a middle-aged man with a shaven head and a […]

Eurostar trains forced to run with empty seats due to Brexit passport rules

Read More Peak time Eurostar trains are daily forced to run across the Channel with hundreds of empty seats because border police cannot process passports quick enough. About 350 out of 900 seats are normally left unsold on the first services between London, Paris and Brussels despite “huge demand” for the greenest form of international […]

Illinois fights back after judge slaps restraining order on gun control law

Post Content The state of Illinois is fighting back after a judge blocked Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker from enforcing a newly enacted ban on certain semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul appealed to the 5th District Appellate Court in Mount Vernon Monday to overturn a temporary restraining order against the Protect […]