News

Most Read
Advertisement
Ezedin Muste, 23 - an informal waste collector known in Amharic as 'korale' - moves a huge pile of plastic soap containers at the historical Merkato district of Addis Ababa on October 1, 2024. Plastic pollution litters our seas, our air and even our bodies, but negotiators face an uphill battle next week to agree the world's first treaty aimed at ending the problem. Countries will have a week in South Korea's Busan from November 25, to round off two years of negotiations. — AFP pic

‘Moment of truth’: World enters crucial talks in Busan to address plastic pollution with first-ever global treaty

Supporters of Uruguay's presidential candidate for the Republican Coalition, Alvaro Delgado, attend his campaign closing rally in Montevideo on November 20, 2024. Alvaro Delgado of outgoing President Luis Lacalle Pou's ruling coalition and Yamandu Orsi of the left-wing Frente Amplio party will go head-to-head in the November 24 election run-off. — AFP pic

Uruguay's Sunday election: Five key facts about a nation of liberal firsts, high costs and football glory

This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on November 21, 2024 shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R), Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky (2nd, R) during their meeting with the Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom Admiral Tony Radakin (top L) in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP pic

Russia’s missile ‘warning’ to Ukraine and the West: What we know so far

Ireland Prime Minister Simon Harris said today his government will adhere to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu. — AFP pic

‘We will arrest Netanyahu’: Ireland PM affirms support for ICC war crimes warrant

Gatwick Airport is located 40km south of London. — Picture from Facebook/Gatwick Airport

London’s Gatwick Airport evacuates terminal due to ‘security incident’

The site of an Israeli strike at a house in Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on November 22, 2024, amid the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. — AFP pic

NGOs take Dutch state to court over arms exports to Israel, accuse govt of enabling genocide in Gaza

A Palestinian rescuer checks the rubble of a building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike south of Gaza City. — AFP pic

Israel kills two Hamas commanders involved in Oct 7 attack, despite ICC’s arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former defence chief

The capital’s Metropolitan Police force conducted the explosion after setting up cordons near the high-security site in Nine Elms. — AFP file pic

UK police detonate suspicious package near US embassy in London

A general view of the Bangkok Hospital, where an Australian teenager was taken after drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol in Laos and passed away, in Bangkok, Thailand, November 22, 2024. — Reuters pic

Second Australian tourist dies from suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, death toll now six

The International Criminal Court on November 21, 2024 issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant, as well as Hamas' military chief Mohammed Deif. — AFP pic

China tells ICC to be ‘objective’ after arrest warrant issued against Israeli PM Netanyahu and former defence minister

In this file photo taken on on July 19, 2017 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (centre) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban were pictured in the Budapest synagogue. — AFP pic

With Netanyahu wanted over Gaza war crimes, Hungary’s Orban offers Israeli PM shelter to defy ICC

This picture taken on November 21 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C, on podium) attending an opening ceremony for the National Defence Development-2024 exhibition in Pyongyang. — AFP pic

Russia gave anti-air missiles to North Korea in exchange for troops to aid Ukraine war, Seoul claims

This picture taken on May 10, 2024 and released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on May 11, 2024 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting the 240mm multiple rocket launcher system at an undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP pic

Kim Jong Un rules out diplomacy, says US hostility remains unchanged

Hong Kong police coordinated with authorities in Macau, Singapore, and Japan after discovering the group was also operating in these locations. — Nuria Ling/TODAY

Japanese porn stars among 39 arrested in prostitution ring bust spanning Hong Kong and Singapore

This screen grab taken from a handout video released by the Israeli government press office shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending a meeting in the command center of the defense ministry in Tel Aviv on October 24, 2024, as Israel conducts what it says are

Netanyahu faces ICC arrest warrant: A breakdown of global reactions

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro. — Reuters file pic

Former Brazil president Bolsonaro faces indictment for 2022 ‘coup’ plot to block Lula’s presidency