On the Screen: An intimate – and intense – portrait from a world at war
DAVID ADAMS watches Sir Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’…
Elon Musk blasts Australia’s planned ban on social media for children
Sydney, Australia Reuters US billionaire Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, has criticised Australia’s proposed law to ban social media for children under 16 and fine social media platforms of up to $A49.5 million for companies for systemic breaches. Australia’s centre-left government on Thursday introduced the bill in parliament. It plans to try […]
Snapshot: Boats off Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia
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Senegalese President’s party secures large parliamentary majority
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s Pastef party has won 130 out of 165 seats in legislative elections, securing a clear majority in parliament and a mandate to pursue promised reforms, provisional results showed on Thursday. Faye, who came to power in April after a landslide election victory, dissolved the house two years […]
Displaced by war, cancer patients in Lebanon struggle for survival
Beirut, Lebanon Reuters Lebanese small business owner Ahmad Fahess thought nothing could be more devastating than his cancer diagnosis until suddenly, while he was at work one day, Israeli airstrikes started targeting his town of Nabatieh in south Lebanon. When he saw the tangled mess around him, he knew he had to grab his family […]
Pope warns the Vatican pension fund needs urgent reform as employees demand transparency
Rome, Italy AP Pope Francis, who has imposed a series of cost-cutting measures across the cash-strapped Vatican, warned Thursday that the city state’s troubled pension fund needs urgent reform to guarantee future obligations. Vatican employees responded by expressing concern that their compensation might be targeted in any further cost-cutting to shore up the pension system, and […]
Heavy gunfire erupts in South Sudan’s capital Juba
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Heavy gunfire erupted in South Sudan’s capital Juba on Thursday evening after security forces moved to arrest the former head of the intelligence service, according to Reuters reporters and an alert sent to United Nations staff. The gunfire began around 7pm local time and continued sporadically for more than an hour before […]
Climate funding divisions laid bare as COP29 deadline looms
Baku, Azerbaijan Reuters Division and discontent spilled into the open on Thursday at a UN climate summit in Baku, sparked by a proposal for a new global finance deal which offered two vastly different options and left no one happy as the closing deadline neared. The key goal of COP29 is to agree how much […]
Gunmen attack Pakistan passenger vehicles, killing at least 38 people
Peshawar, Pakistan Reuters Gunmen opened fire on passenger vehicles in a tribal area in north-western Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 29, the chief secretary of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, said. Among the fatalities in the attack, which occurred in the Kurram tribal district, were a woman and […]
Irregular migration: In Spain’s Canaries, rescuers exhausted as new routes open
JOAN FAUS and HORACI GARCIA, of Reuters, report on the continuing crisis as Spain’s Canary Islands face an influx of migrants…