Paris, Jun. 13, (dpa/GNA) – French President Emmanuel Macron has called on representatives of the social democrats, conservatives and greens to work together with his centrist camp…
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UK airports slam reintroduction of limit on liquids in hand luggage
London, Jun. 13, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – Airports have criticized the British government’s reintroduction of a limit on liquids over 100ml carried in hand luggage at some terminals in…
House votes to hold US attorney general in contempt of Congress
Washington, Jun. 13, (dpa/GNA) – The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives on Wednesday voted in favour of holding US Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress over his…
UNHCR: 1.5% of the world’s population displaced
Geneva, Jun. 13, (dpa/GNA) – More people than ever before were forcibly displaced worldwide last month due to war, conflict, violence, and persecution, according to a report…
Clashes in Buenos Aires as Senate passes controversial reforms
Buenos Aires, Jun. 13, (dpa/GNA) – Demonstrators and police clashed outside Argentina’s Congress on Wednesday as senators passed a controversial reform package to privatize several state entities…
Four instructors from US college injured in stabbing attack in China
Beijing, June 11, (dpa/GNA) – Four visiting instructors from a US college, have been injured in a stabbing attack in a park in north-eastern…
WHO: Ultra-processed foods, alcohol contribute to 2.7m deaths a year
London, Jun. 12, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – Ultra-processed foods (UPFs), alcohol, tobacco and fossil fuels are killing 2.7 million people every year across Europe, according to the World…
ICC chief prosecutor says Darfur atrocities rising
Amsterdam, Jun. 12, (dpa/GNA) – The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has seen clear indications of atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan.…
Dozens killed in fire at Kuwait building housing foreign workers
June 12 (CNN/GNA) — At least 49 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a building housing foreign workers in Kuwait City, state…
Danish PM still not feeling well after street attack
Denmark, June 12, BBC/GNA – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said she is fulfilling her duties as the country’s leader, but has not…
Hunter Biden guilty of all charges in gun trial
New York, June 12, BBC/GNA – Hunter Biden has been found guilty on all three charges in his federal gun trial, becoming the first…
Elon Musk drops lawsuit after OpenAI published his emails
New York, June 12 (CNN/GNA) — Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal…
‘Immense’ scale of Gaza killings amount to crime against humanity, UN inquiry says
Geneva, June 12 (Reuters/GNA) – Both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in the early stages of the Gaza war, a U.N. inquiry found on…
South Korea says North Korean soldiers briefly crossed buffer zone
Seoul, Jun. 11, (dpa/GNA) – South Korea says several North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the heavily-fortified military demarcation line between the two hostile countries in an incident…
EU court: Women who value equality with men may qualify as refugees
Brussels, Jun. 11, (dpa/GNA) – Female asylum-seekers who believe in equality between the the sexes may qualify as refugees if that is likely to be a “motive…
Malawi’s vice president killed in plane crash
Nairobi, Jun. 11, (dpa/GNA) – Malawian Vice President Saulos Chilima has died in a plane crash. President Lazarus Chakwera announced on Tuesday that the military aircraft with…
Aircraft carrying Malawi vice-president goes missing
June 10 (BBC/GNA) – An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima and nine others has gone missing, a statement from the president’s office has…
Blinken arrives in Cairo on latest Middle East tour
Cairo, Jun. 10, (dpa/GNA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Cairo on Monday, the first leg of his Middle East tour aimed at brokering…
Biden visits US WWI cemetery in France stressing contrast to Trump
Paris, Jun. 10, (dpa/GNA) – US President Joe Biden paid a visit to a US World War I military cemetery near Paris accompanied by his wife Jill…
Gantz quits Israeli emergency government in row over Gaza’s future
Tel Aviv, Jun. 10, (dpa/GNA) – Influential Israeli politician Benny Gantz is leaving the emergency government formed in Israel following the attack by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas…