US Condemns Deadly Attack On Police In Kosovo
The United States on Monday condemned a deadly clash between authorities in Kosovo and gunmen near the Serbian border which left one officer dead. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Kosovo and Serbia to avoid any actions or language that could further inflame the situation after Sunday’s violence. “The perpetrators of this crime must be held accountable via a transparent...
Mandela’s Granddaughter Zoleka Passes On At 43
Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of South Africa’s first democratically elected president, the late Nelson Mandela, has tragically passed away at 43 after battling metastatic cancer. She was admitted to the hospital last Monday for treatment but succumbed to the disease on the eve of her grandmother’s birthday, surrounded by loved ones and friends. In a heartfelt statement shared on Instagram, a...
Biden Dog Commander Bites Another Secret Service Agent
Commander, the Biden family's two-year-old German Shepherd, has bitten yet another Secret Service agent. The attack happened on Monday night and the officer was treated at the scene, the Secret Service said in a statement on Tuesday. This is the 11th time the dog has bitten a guard at the White House or the Biden family home. The White House press secretary...
Sweden PM Summons Army Chief Amid Surge In Killings
Sweden's prime minister has summoned the head of the armed forces to help curb a surge in gang killings. The two men and the country's police chief will meet on Friday to discuss what role the military could play. It comes after a bloody 12 hours that saw two men shot dead in Stockholm and a 25-year-old woman killed in a...
Putin meets Former Wagner Commander Andrei Troshev
Russian President Vladimir Putin has met one of the most senior ex-commanders of the Wagner mercenary group, who the Kremlin says now works for the defence ministry. Andrei Troshev is a former aide of late Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a plane crash in August. His death came two months after Wagner's troops briefly marched on Moscow. President Putin...
Canada Elects First Indigenous Provincial Leader
Canada’s province of Manitoba elected First Nations politician Wab Kinew as its leader on Tuesday, making him the first Indigenous person voted in to head a provincial government. Kinew, of the New Democratic Party, will take power with a majority government. “This is a great victory for all of us in Manitoba,” Kinew told a crowd of cheering supporters in provincial...
Russian Reporter Who Protested On TV Jailed In Absentia
An exiled Russian reporter who protested against Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine live on state TV was handed over to eight years in jail in absentia on Wednesday for spreading “fakes” about Moscow’s army. Marina Ovsyannikova, 45, held up a protest placard during an evening news programme last March but was sentenced for a separate protest she made outside the Kremlin...
Pakistan Orders Evacuation Of All Afghan Asylum-Seekers By November
Pakistan's government has ordered all unauthorized Afghan asylum seekers - an estimated 1.7 million people - to leave the country by November. A spike in militant attacks along the two countries' border this year has escalated tensions. Pakistan has blamed border crossing attacks on Afghanistan-based operatives - charges denied by the Taliban regime. But it has fuelled resentment in Islamabad, which on...
It’s A “Complete Siege” Of Gaza, Israeli Defence Minister Orders
The Israeli defence minister has ordered a "complete siege" on Gaza, saying authorities would cut electricity and block the entry of food and fuel, two days after Hamas fighters unleashed a barrage of rockets and infiltrated southern Israeli towns during an unprecedented incursion from the Palestinian territory. Israel's military reported success on Monday in driving Hamas fighters out of communities that...
Israel-Gaza War: US, UK, France, Others Back Jerusalem
Today, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America released the following joint statement following their call: Today, we — President Macron of France, Chancellor Scholz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Sunak of the United Kingdom, and President Biden of the United States — express our steadfast and united...
