Showing 1 - 10 of 45
Kim Dotcom loses 12-year battle against extradition
Published on 15/08/2024
» WELLINGTON - Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, has lost a 12-year battle against extradition to the United States.
Reformist candidate wins Iran’s presidential election
New York Times, Published on 06/07/2024
» TEHRAN - In an election upset in Iran, the reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, who advocated for moderate policies at home and improved relations with the West, won the presidential runoff election, beating his hard-line rival, the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday morning.
Cancer claims OJ Simpson at 76
Published on 11/04/2024
» OJ Simpson, the American football star who was acquitted in a sensational 1995 trial of murdering his former wife but was found responsible for her death in a civil lawsuit and was later imprisoned for armed robbery and kidnapping, has died at the age of 76.
Navalny jokes about becoming Santa Claus in Arctic penal colony
AFP, Published on 26/12/2023
» MOSCOW - Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said he was "fine" Tuesday after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer to a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle.
UN warns Gaza fuel shortage will stop aid work by end of day
AFP, Published on 25/10/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - The main UN aid agency in besieged Gaza warned it will have to stop operations by the end of Wednesday because it is running out of fuel, as Hamas said overnight Israeli strikes killed at least 80 people.
UN chief alleges violations of law in Gaza, angering Israel
AFP, Published on 24/10/2023
» UNITED NATIONS (UNITED STATES) - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday alleged violations of international law in Gaza and urged an immediate ceasefire as Israel pounds the Palestinian territory in response to Hamas attacks, with the crisis deeply dividing the Security Council.
'Harry Potter' actor Michael Gambon dies aged 82
AFP, Published on 28/09/2023
» LONDON - Celebrated British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight "Harry Potter" films, has died in hospital aged 82, his family announced Thursday, prompting a flood of tributes.
'Steel heart of Ukraine' steps in to battle
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/04/2023
» Inside the gloom of the vast Zaporizhstal steel plant, a towering blast furnace wheezes like a giant black lung, inhaling chunks of iron ore, thermal coal and limestone, blending them at temperatures reaching several thousand degrees with oxygen-enriched air, and then exhaling vapour and molten metal.
Hunger for coal dooms tiny village
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» For months, die-hard environmental activists have camped in the fields and occupied the trees in this tiny farming village in western Germany, hoping that like-minded people from across the country would arrive and help stop the expansion of a nearby open-pit coal mine that threatened to swallow the village and its farms.
Guantánamo prisoner 'was waterboarded'; agents omitted it from memo
New York Times, Published on 29/07/2022
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba: A prisoner accused of plotting al-Qaida’s bombing of the USS Cole warship in 2000 told federal interrogators years later that he was waterboarded by the CIA, an interpreter testified Thursday. But that detail was omitted from the official account of the interrogations that prosecutors want to use at his death-penalty trial as evidence that he confessed.