Kenya police fire water cannons and tear gas at finance bill protesters
Kenyan police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons at protesters angry over tax rises and spending cuts.
Javad Zarif, negotiator of Iran nuclear deal, backs reformist presidential candidate
Fiery former foreign minister enters campaign to elect consensual reformist Masoud Pezeshkian
Javad Zarif, the former foreign minister and probably the Iranian politician best known to the west, has thrown himself into the campaign to elect the reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as the country’s president.
Zarif emerged from academia back to frontline politics to face heckling at public rallies, outright bans from one university and allegations that he is seeking to settle scores with those who thwarted his foreign policy when in office between 2013 and 2021.
Continue reading...Hezbollah’s threat caught Cyprus off guard, what are the issues at stake?
Hezbollah has several concerns about Cyprus, analysts say, and can 'attack' it in more ways than one.
Top European court finds Russia guilty of rights violations in Crimea
Ukraine wins its first interstate case against Russia over systematic violations of rights on its occupied peninsula.
Footage shows moment deadly S Korea factory fire breaks out
Twenty-three people died in a lithium battery explosion and fire in a South Korea factory.
Several killed as Kenyan police open fire on anti-tax bill protesters
Parts of Parliament building set ablaze as crowd attempts to storm the complex in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange freed after long legal battle
Here’s a look at Assange was freed and why he was in prison in the first place.
King and Queen welcome Japanese Emperor to UK
The ceremonial welcome marks the start of a three-day state visit to the country.
Migration of 6m antelope in South Sudan dwarfs previous records for world’s biggest, aerial study reveals
The movement is more than double that of east Africa’s renowned ‘great migration’ and has continued despite decades of war and instability
An extensive aerial survey in South Sudan has revealed an enormous migration of 6 million antelope – the largest migration of land mammals anywhere on Earth. It is more than double the size of the celebrated annual “great migration” between Tanzania and Kenya, which involves about 2 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelle.
“The migration in South Sudan blows any other migration we know of out the water,” said David Simpson, wildlife NGO African Parks’ park manager for Boma and Badingilo national parks, which the migration moves between and around. “The estimates indicate the vast herds of antelope species … are almost three times larger than east Africa’s great migration. The scale is truly awe-inspiring.”
Continue reading...‘It was a very tough period’: Italian antifascist MEP Ilaria Salis on her 15-month detention in Hungary
Activist says threat of up to 11 years in prison ‘still scares me a lot’ and she intends to speak up for prisoners’ rights
An Italian activist who was released from house arrest in Hungary after she was elected as an MEP has spoken of her gratitude to the voters who gave her back her freedom and vowed to continue to fight for the rights of prisoners and against the rise of neofascist groups in Europe.
The case of Ilaria Salis, a teacher from Monza, near Milan, sparked anger and diplomatic protests in Italy when she brought to court in Hungary in chains in January. She had been arrested nearly a year earlier at a counter-demonstration to a neo-Nazi rally in Budapest and charged with three counts of attempted assault and membership of an extreme leftwing organisation – charges that carry a potential prison sentence of 11 years.
Continue reading...Afghanistan erupts in celebration as team reaches T20 World Cup semifinal
Fans take to the streets from Kabul to Kandahar and Khost to Laghman as Afghanistan reach first-ever World Cup semis.
Watch: Julian Assange’s decade of fighting extradition
The Wikileaks founder has left the UK after spending five years in prison, and seven holed-up in the Ecuadorean embassy.
Kenya police fire tear gas at anti-tax protests
Businesses have been shut in the capital as protesters call for the finance bill to be dropped.
Zelensky sacks top general accused of incompetence
Lt-Gen Yuriy Sodol, from his post after public criticism about excessive casualties and accusations of incompetence.
Who is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange and what did he do?
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released after agreeing a deal with the US authorities.
Ultra-Orthodox students must be drafted, Israel court rules
Until now there had been exemptions for men registered in full-time Jewish religious study.
Wikileaks founder freed after five years in prison
Wikileaks said its founder had left a UK prison after striking a deal to plead guilty to US criminal charges.
China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks
The Chang'e-6 has landed after collecting the first ever samples from the far side of the Moon.
China space probe returns with rare Moon rocks
The Chang'e-6 has landed after collecting the first ever samples from the far side of the Moon.
Israeli court rules ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service
Decision threatens Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government with collapse as Gaza conflict drags on
Israel’s supreme court has ruled that ultra-Orthodox Jewish men must be drafted into military service, a politically explosive decision that threatens the stability of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government.
The unanimous ruling on Tuesday, from an expanded panel of nine judges, upheld an interim decision last month that the state had no authority to offer the current exemption for ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, men. It found that yeshivas – Orthodox seminaries for Torah study – should be ineligible for state subsidies unless students enlisted in the military.
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