# Myanmar’s military-backed government says Britain’s King Charles has sent two books and a sealed diplomatic letter to detained former leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Officials delivered the items yesterday and released rare photographs of the 81-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has been held since the military coup in 2021. Her son, Kim Aris, […]
# A suspect linked to a far-left movement has been arrested after a 19th Century city hall was gutted by a fire over thew weekend. The suspect is known for acts of violence against public officials and is considered a potential threat to national security. According to the French ministry of Justice more than 120 […]
# With congressional elections less than three weeks away, US President Donald Trump’s approval rating has fallen to a record low of 31-percent. According to a new Reuters-Ipsos poll, only 35-percent of registered voters say they would vote Republican, compared with 47-percent who favour the Democrats. Rising petrol prices and concerns about the economy are […]
# An Australian member of Parliament who was struck twice by a vehicle outside her constituency office yesterday has lost a leg. The incident in Wangaratta appeared to have been deliberate, with witnesses saying the driver first rammed independent MP Helen Haines against her parked car, then reversed and hit her again. The 65-year-old underwent […]
# A Kenyan High Court judge has found that preacher Paul Mackenzie’s Good News International Ministries operated as a doomsday cult. Justice Diana Kavedza-Mochache says followers were isolated from the outside world, while children were denied education and medical care. She is delivering judgment in the murder trial of Mackenzie and 30 co-accused over the […]
# France’s interior minister, Laurent Nuñez, has admitted police lost control in some major cities during weekend riots, as the government faces mounting pressure to restore order. He says authorities failed to anticipate the scale of the violence, despite deploying 60-thousand security personnel. More than two-thousand-500 people have been arrested, and almost one-thousand security officers […]
# Bangladesh has asked Saudi Arabia for an explanation after two of its citizens were executed without its government being informed beforehand. The man and woman were executed in Mecca last week after being convicted of what Saudi authorities described as an indecent act inside a mosque. The precise nature of the offence has not […]
# Australian independent MP Helen Haines is in a critical condition after being struck by a vehicle outside her office in Wangaratta, in Victoria. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the incident appears to have been a deliberate act. A 43-year-old man has been arrested, and police found a knife inside the vehicle. A joint counter-terrorism […]
# The pilots of an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv in Israel to Vienna has made an emergency landing in Sofia, Bulgaria, after a bomb threat. The Airbus A320 was carrying 57 people when the alert was raised over Romania. A Bulgarian fighter jet escorted it to Sofia. A security search found no threat, […]
