18th February, 2025
KILLED: At least 31 people and with over a dozen more injured after a bus fell nearly 800 metres off a precipice in the south-western municipality of Yocalla, according to local police.
PLEDGED: Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown, that he would release soon the full details of a comprehensive strategic partnership deal signed between China and his country, which has raised concerns in New Zealand with which it has constitutional ties.
ASSIGNED: An Argentine judge, to investigate President Javier Milei's role in promoting a cryptocurrency that crashed, the latest shockwave from a scandal that has threatened to slow the libertarian leader's momentum.
17th February, 2025
ARRESTED: Former Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth, who is facing money laundering charges, the state-run Financial Crimes Commission said early on Sunday.
ELECTED: Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. to chair the African Union commission, the move took place at a summit dominated by fears of the Congo war widening into a regional conflict.
DIED: South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, who was found dead at her home, a police official with knowledge of the case said on Sunday.
14th February, 2025
VISITING: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the US where he has met with Donald Trump and discussed trade and tariffs among other things.
ARRIVED: In Moscow, Alexander Vinnik, a Russian national convicted of cybercrime and released by US authorities as part of an exchange of prisoners, state news agency RIA said on Thursday.
RECEIVED: Thailand, 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopians, from Myanmar, its army said on Thursday, in a massive repatriation that comes amid a mounting crackdown on scam centres operating along the border.
13th February, 2025
ESTABLISHING: Senegal and France, a joint commission to organize the departure of French troops from Senegal and the restitution of French military bases by the end of 2025, the foreign ministers of both countries said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
SANCTIONED: Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko by Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, Poroshenko said, accusing political rival President Volodymyr Zelenskiy of being behind the move.
RESCUED: Russia's emergency services, 139 fishermen stranded on an ice floe drifting in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Western Pacific.
12th February, 2025
APPOINTED: Canada, fulfilling a promise made to US President Donald Trump, on Tuesday appointed a senior intelligence official to the new post of fentanyl tsar, saying he would coordinate the fight against smuggling of the drug.
DIRECTED: The US Justice Department, federal prosecutors in New York to drop their five-count indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams, in which he was accused of accepting illegal campaign donations in exchange for political favours.
GRANTING: Spain, year-long residence and work permits to about 25,000 migrants affected by last year's deadly floods in the east of the country, the migration ministry said.
11th February, 2025
CONFIRMED: The White House that International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan is the first person to be hit with economic and travel sanctions authorised by US President Donald Trump.
SUSPENDED: South African authorities, rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns.
STOPPED: A street performance by Ed Sheeran in India's tech capital of Bengaluru, abruptly by police on Sunday, outraging fans and prompting the British singer to issue a clarification.
10th February, 2025
RESIGNED: Colombia's Environment Minister Susana Muhamad, but she will stay in her role as president of the United Nations COP16 on biodiversity.
KILLED: Indian security forces, 31 Maoist rebels in the forests of country's central state of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said, in its biggest encounter this year.
DIED: Sam Nujoma, the activist and guerrilla leader who became Namibia's first democratically elected president after it won its independence from apartheid South Africa, died aged 95 on Saturday, the Namibian Presidency said on Sunday.
7th February, 2025
REVIEWING: The US Federal Aviation Administration, airports with high volumes of mixed helicopter and airplane traffic nearby after a fatal collision last week near Reagan National Airport in Washington.
ARRIVED: A 144 Kenyan police in Haiti's capital on Thursday to reinforce a security mission tackling violent gangs.
REFUSED: Russia, to renew the accreditation of Le Monde's correspondent due to France's refusal to issue a visa to a Russian reporter, leaving the renowned French daily absent from Moscow for the first time since the 1950s.
6th February, 2025
CONFIRMED: The Republican-led US Senate, Pam Bondi as the new US Attorney General on Tuesday, propelling one of President Donald Trump's staunchest political allies to the top perch of American law enforcement.
RECEIVED: Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa, an invitation from French President Emmanuel Macron to visit France in the coming weeks, the Syrian President's office said in a statement on Wednesday.
NAMED: Prince Rahim Al-Hussaini, the 50th hereditary Imam, or spiritual leader, of Ismaili Muslims on Wednesday after the will of his late father Prince Karim Aga Khan IV was unsealed, the Aga Khan Development Network said.
5th February, 2025
BROUGHT HOME: Ukraine, 12 children who were forcefully taken by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said.
IDENTIFIED: Washington DC officials, 66 of the 67 people killed in Wednesday's midair collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and a military helicopter over the Potomac River.
AGREED: Spanish ministers, to cut the legal working week to 37.5 hours with no change in salary, forging ahead with one of the coalition government's flagship measures despite opposition from employers' associations.
DIED: The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X.
4th February, 2025
LAUNCHED: A first ever vaccine trial in Uganda for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, according to the World Health Organization.
CLOSING: Ecuador's borders from Saturday to next Monday, President Daniel Noboa said in a post on X on Monday, while also ratcheting up the military's presence at the borders and at ports.
CAPTURED: A senior commander of Islamic State's Somalia wing, police and state media said, two days after the IS leadership was targeted with US airstrikes and as security forces continue a weeks-long offensive against them.
2nd February, 2025
MET: Syria's transitional President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Sunday in his first foreign trip as Syrian leader, in a sign of the major shifts under way in regional alliances.
INTRODUCING: The UK, new laws to make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images, it said on Saturday, becoming the first country in the world to introduce the new AI sexual abuse offences.
SANCTIONING: Australia, extreme right-wing online network "Terrorgram" as part of its efforts to combat a rise in antisemitism and online extremism, and after similar moves by Britain and the United States.
31st January, 2025
QUESTIONED: Trump nominees for the FBI director and director of national intelligence, Kash Patel and Representative Tulsi Gabbard, at confirmation hearings in the US Capitol.
CHARGED: Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, a daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, with inciting violence during riots in 2021 in which more than 300 people were killed; a lawyer for Zuma-Sambudla said she would plead not guilty.
DIED: Marianne Faithfull, the wild woman of London's Swinging '60s who survived drug addiction, homelessness, two comas, cancer and COVID-19, at age 78, after a singing career that began as a teenager and lasted until her 70s.
30th January, 2025
KILLED: Twenty people after a small aircraft carrying oil workers in South Sudan's Unity State crashed on takeoff from its oilfield airport on Wednesday, the region's information minister said.
SENTENCED: Former US Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced on Wednesday to 11 years in prison for taking bribes including gold bars in exchange for favours for Egypt and New Jersey businessmen.
ANNOUNCED: The Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS), the formal exit of junta-led Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger from the bloc following their withdrawal last year.
29th January, 2025
BLOCKED: US Senate Democrats, a Republican-led effort to sanction the International Criminal Court in protest of its arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza.
BEING INVESTIGATED: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who said on Tuesday she had been placed under judicial investigation following a government decision to release a Libyan police officer wanted by the International Criminal Court.z
INJURED: Some 24 people in Israeli airstrikes in Nabatieh, a major town in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said.
28th January, 2025
CONFIRMED: President Donald Trump's nomination of Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary by a majority of the US Senate on Monday.
AGREED: European Union foreign ministers, on a roadmap to ease sanctions on Syria, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday.
KILLED: At least 22 soldiers and several wounded in Nigeria's north-east after insurgents deployed improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers to ward off attacks by the military, the army spokesperson Edward Buba said.
27th January, 2025
RELEASED: Canadian veteran David Lavery, following his arrest in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on 11th November after mediation by Qatar, an official with knowledge of the release said on Sunday.
REPLACED: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy - for the third time this year, the commander of a key Ukrainian military formation responsible for defending the eastern hub of Pokrovsk that's under increased risk of falling to Russian forces.
INVESTIGATING: Sierra Leone's information ministry, media reports that European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers is in the country and benefiting from high-level protection there.
24th January, 2025
KILLED: At least 20 fishermen in Nigeria's north-eastern state of Borno after Boko Haram insurgents attacked their village, fishermen and local security officers said on Thursday.
JAILED: British teenager, Axel Rudakubana, 18, who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain's history.
FREED: David Balland, co-founder of French crypto company Ledger and his partner after being kidnapped and held to ransom, the Paris prosecutors' office said on Thursday; Balland was kidnapped early Tuesday morning at his home in central France.
23rd January, 2025
SETTLED: Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group, a lawsuit brought by Prince Harry, admitting unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time and paying substantial damages; Prince Harry claimed it was a "monumental" victory.
KILLED: At least 11 people in a rail accident in India's western Maharashtra state on Wednesday when they disembarked from their train, fearing a fire, only to be hit by another train passing on the adjacent track, local media reported.
TO BE RELEASED: Malian singer Rokia Traore, arrested in Rome last year over an international child custody dispute and later handed over to Belgium, from a Belgian prison on Wednesday, local news agency Belga reported quoting her lawyers.
22nd January, 2025
RESIGNING: Israel's army chief Herzi Halevi said on Tuesday he would resign on 6th March, taking responsibility for the massive security lapse on 7th October, 2023, when Palestinian Hamas gunmen from Gaza carried out a cross-border attack on Israel.
FREED: Spanish hostage Gilbert Navarro, who was kidnapped in North Africa on 17th January, by a Tuareg rebel alliance in northern Mali; he was expected to land in Algeria's Boufarik air base, Algerian state media reported.
DELAYED: Prince Harry's legal battle against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group over alleged unlawful information gathering was delayed on Tuesday amid chaos over last-minute discussions on a possible settlement.
21st January, 2025
ANNOUNCED: Britain, a public inquiry on Monday into the murder of three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event last year, a crime that ignited days of violent riots.
TO ATTEND: South Korea's impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, a trial on Tuesday to determine whether he should be removed from office or reinstated, Yonhap News reported.
DIED: Eight people and seven were injured in a fire at a nursing home outside Belgrade on Monday which authorities said was caused by arson, Serbian state TV RTS reported.
20th January, 2025
INJURED: Dozens of people after a ski lift collapsed at a resort in the Spanish region of Aragon on Saturday; nine people were injured very seriously and eight seriously, the regional government said.
CONVICTED: An Indian police volunteer, Sanjay Roy, on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a hospital in the eastern city Kolkata, in the speedy trial of a crime that sparked national outrage over a lack of safety for women.
CONTAINED: A large fire which broke out at a Hindu religious festival, the Maha Kumbh Mela, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said.
17th January, 2025
SIGNED: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a landmark 100-year partnership agreement to deepen security ties and strengthen their countries' relationship.
SURVIVED: French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, the first test of his new minority government after a failed vote of no-confidence called by the hard left.
DIED: David Lynch, the American filmmaker, writer and artist who scored best director Oscar nominations for Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive and co-created the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks, at age 78, his family said.
15th January, 2025
RESIGNED: Tulip Siddiq - the British minister responsible for financial services and fighting corruption, on Tuesday after weeks of questions over her financial ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina, ousted last year as Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
DESIGNATED: The US, the extreme right-wing online network known as "Terrorgram" and three of its leaders as a terrorist group and accused it of promoting violent white supremacy.
SAID: Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, that she was relieved to be remission on Tuesday after visiting the London hospital where she received treatment for cancer to thank all the medics and staff there.
14th January, 2025
TOOK PART: Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on Monday, the first day of India's he Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival which, held every 12 years, could draw the world's largest single gathering of humanity.
ROCKED: Southern Japan, by an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.
POSTPONED: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations for a second time because of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, organisers said on Monday; they will now be announced on 23rd January.
13th January, 2025
KILLED: At least 17 people with dozens more injured in an explosion of a gas station and a gas storage tank in Yemen's al-Bayda province on Saturday, the Houthi-run health ministry said.
KIDNAPPED: An Austrian woman in the desert town of Agadez in central Niger on Saturday, two Nigerien security sources told Reuters.
STATED: Premier Chris Minns, of the Australian state of New South Wales, that an attack on a Sydney synagogue on Saturday marked an escalation in anti-Semitic crime in the state, after police said the attack was attempted arson.
10th January, 2025
SUFFERED: Benin's armed forces, heavy losses in an attack on one of their most well-equipped positions in the north, where troops are trying to curb cross-border assaults by Islamist militants, the national guard's chief of staff said on Thursday.
REJECTED: New York's top court, President-elect Donald Trump's bid to delay his sentencing Friday for his conviction on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, a court official said on Thursday.
APPROVED: Armenia's government, a bill that calls for the country, once part of the Soviet Union, to launch a bid to join the European Union.
9th January, 2025
ANNOUNCED: That Poland will hold the first round of a presidential election on 18th May, the parliament speaker said.
CRASHED: A light aircraft near Rottnest Island off the Western Australian city of Perth killing two tourists from Switzerland and Denmark and the pilot, authorities said on Wednesday.
PERMITTED: Jailed Belarusian politician Viktor Babariko, who was arrested while trying to run in a 2020 election against President Alexander Lukashenko, to send a message to his family for the first time in nearly two years.
8th January, 2025
UNDERWAY: A rescue attempt to save miners trapped inside a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India's north-eastern Assam state; authorities said three of the nine miners are feared dead.
TRAVELLING: US Vice President Kamala Harris, to Europe, the Middle East and Asia before leaving office on 20th January, the White House said on Tuesday.
DIED: Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France's far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, on Tuesday at the age of 96.
7th January, 2025
LAUNCHED: North Korea, a new intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile (IRBM) on Monday in a test flight, state media KCNA said on Tuesday, as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged to accelerate the country's nuclear and missile capabilities.
KILLED: At least two people with two others injured after a suspected bomb explosion at a school near Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Monday, police said.
SENT: The US, 11 Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Oman, the Pentagon said on Monday, in a major resettlement that slashes the prisoner population to just 15 people.
6th January, 2025
HEADING: To Paris, convoys of farmers to try to block roads in protest against what they say is unfair competition from overseas and excessive regulation.
CALLED: Elon Musk, for Nigel Farage to quit as leader of Britain's right-wing Reform UK party in an abrupt withdrawal of support by the US billionaire for the Brexit campaigner who is trying to shake up the British political establishment again.
ARRIVED: A second group of 75 Guatemalan soldiers, in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Saturday to boost a United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring order amid chaos wrought by gangs, the mission said.
3rd January, 2025
INVESTIGATING: Police in Fiji, incidents involving two crew members of Australian airline Virgin Australia who were allegedly victims of rape and theft in Nadi in the early hours of New Year's Day, the Fijian Government said.
RECOVERING: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was released from hospital on Thursday after his prostate surgery ended "successfully,", his office reported on X.
DIED: Italian designer Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous fashion house known for its bright and patterned styles, at the age of 93, the family-owned company said on Thursday.
2nd January, 2025
EXECUTED: Saudi Arabia. six Iranian nationals for drug smuggling, state news agency SPA reported on Wednesday, prompting Tehran to summon the Saudi ambassador according to media reports.
SCRAPPED: Romania and Bulgaria, land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries whose residents can travel without passport checks.
MARKED: Thousands of Bangladeshis in a 'March for Unity' in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday, the student-led uprising five months ago that led to the ouster of longstanding Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and remember the more than 1,000 killed in the violence.
31st December, 2024
ANNOUNCED: Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab, that 413 more people arrested over election protests are to be freed, taking the total number of prisoners released to 1,369.
SENTENCED: The parents of a boy who last year killed 10 people in a primary school in Belgrade, Serbia, in a mass shooting that shocked the country to 14.5 years and three years in prison, respectively, for neglect and abuse of a minor.
VOWED: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, to solidify the country's comprehensive strategic partnership with Russia in his letter to President Vladimir Putin on Monday, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday.
30th December, 2024
KILLED: At least 60 people in a road accident in Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday citing a local official.
EXPELLED: Lebanon, around 70 Syrian officers and soldiers on Saturday, returning them to Syria after they crossed into the country illegally via informal routes, a Lebanese security official and a war monitor said.
PARDONED: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, 20 people who were convicted of extremism, state media reported on Saturday.
27th December, 2024
KILLED: Two sailors in separate incidents - both dying after they were hit by a sail boom on seperate yachts, during the Sydney to Hobart yacht race on Friday, organisers and local authorities said.
ARRESTED: Bosnia's Security Minister Nenad Nesic and six other people on charges of organised crime including money laundering, abuse of office and acceptance of bribes, the state prosecutor's office said in a statement.
DIED: Former two-term Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the age of 92.
24th December, 2024
PLEADED: Not guilty to New York state murder charges that brand him a terrorist, Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally gunning down health insurance executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street.
CONFIRMED: Mozambique's Constitutional Council, the ruling party Frelimo's victory in an October election, which has sparked massive protests by opposition groups who say the vote was rigged.
ANNOUNCED: Venezuelan attorney general Tarek Saab, that 177 more people arrested over election protests are to be freed, taking the total number of prisoners released to 910.
23rd December, 2024
KILLED: Four people in south-west Turkey on Sunday when an ambulance helicopter collided with a hospital building and crashed into the ground.
CLAIMED: Ukraine's Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, that Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war; Russia did not immediately comment on the incident, but has previous denied committing war crimes.
SHOT DOWN: A US fighter aircraft over the Red Sea early on Sunday, forcing both pilots to eject; the US military said it was an "apparent case of friendly fire" after the missile cruiser Gettysburg "mistakenly fired on and hit" the plane.
20th December, 2024
KILLED: At least 44 people in two late-night traffic accidents in Ghazni province in south-eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Thursday; another 76 people were injured.
CHARGED: Luigi Mangione, 26, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson, with federal murder and stalking crimes in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday; the charge follows state murder and terrorism charges previously announced by New York prosecutors.
BANNED: Belgium, in a European first, sales of disposable vapes because of concerns about their use among children and the environmental damage they can cause.
19th December, 2024
UPHELD: The Cour de Cassation, France's highest court, former President Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction for corruption and influence peddling.
RESCUED: Emergency services in Italy, cave explorer Ottavia Piana after she was injured and trapped underground for more than three days following a fall, bringing relief to Italians who have been following her fate.
RESUMED: Delegations from rival Libyan institutions, talks in Morocco on Wednesday to try to break a political deadlock and prevent the country from sliding back into chaos.
18th December, 2024
INDICTED: A New York grand jury, Luigi Mangione, 26, who is alleged to have shot dead UnitedHealth Group executive Brian Thompson on a Manhattan street this month, on 11 counts, including first-degree murder and murder as a crime of terrorism, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg told reporters.
FREED: Denmark, anti-whaling activist Paul Watson from detention on Tuesday and said it had rejected a Japanese request to extradite him over criminal charges dating back more than a decade.
LOST: New York Mayor Eric Adams, a bid to narrow his five-count federal corruption indictment as a judge declined on Tuesday to dismiss a bribery charge related to luxury travel benefits provided by a Turkish official, with the trial set for April.
17th December, 2024
KILLED: Twelve people, including 11 Indian citizens, after an accident at an Indian restaurant in the Georgian ski resort of Gudauri, the country's Indian Embassy said on Monday.
QUIT: Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland after clashing with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on issues including how to handle possible US tariffs; the move deals an unexpected blow to an already unpopular government.
APPROVED: France's National Assembly, a special law designed to maintain core state functions and prevent any interruption of public services, three days after President Emmanuel Macron named Francois Bayrou as his fourth prime minister of 2024.
16th December, 2024
DIED: At least 10 people when a boat capsized on the Benue River in central Nigeria, Benue State police spokesperson Catherine Anene said on Sunday.
SANK: A Russian oil tanker carrying thousands of tonnes of oil products after splitting apart during a heavy storm on Sunday, spilling oil into the Kerch Strait, while another tanker was also in distress after sustaining damage, Russian officials said.
JOINED: Britain, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) which includes Japan, Australia and Canada on Sunday in its biggest trade deal since Brexit.
13th December, 2024
RELEASED: A US Justice Department watchdog report on Thursday debunked claims by far-right conspiracy theorists who falsely alleged that FBI operatives were secretly involved in the 6th January, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump's supporters.
RECOVERING: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who underwent a second procedure on Thursday following his emergency surgery earlier this week to relieve bleeding in his skull, his doctors said, adding that the latest operation was successful.
LAUNCHED: The Inter-American Development Bank, a regional security alliance against crime that brings together 18 governments across Latin America and the Caribbean as well as several international finance institutions.
12th December, 2024
RESIGNING: FBI Director Chris Wray, from his post early next year, he said on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump signaled his intent to fire the veteran official and replace him with firebrand Kash Patel.
REOPENED: Haiti's government, the capital's Toussaint Louverture International Airport, shut since last month, even as the US aviation watchdog extended a ban on US airlines flying there.
DISMISSED: The Pentagon, claims by a US lawmaker - Republican Congressman Jeff Van Drew - that Iran might be launching drones over New Jersey from a "mothership" off the East Coast.
11th December, 2024
RECOVERING: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in an intensive care unit on Tuesday, doctors said, after being rushed to a Sao Paulo hospital for emergency surgery to drain a bleed on his brain linked to a fall in October.
CONFIDENT: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday voiced confidence that states could finalise a pandemic agreement by May 2025, despite questions about whether the administration of US President-elect Donald Trump will support it.
BEGAN: France, the withdrawal of its military from Chad with the departure of two warplanes that were based in the capital N'Djamena, the French army said, two weeks after Chad said it was ending its defence cooperation pact with Paris.
10th December, 2024
IN CUSTODY: A suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, in the killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson who was fatally shot in a brazen shooting outside a Manhattan hotel last week; Mangione was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
DECLARED: Ghana's electoral commission, ex-President and main opposition leader John Dramani Mahama winner of Saturday's presidential election with 56.55 per cent of the vote, according to provisional results; Mahama's main rival had already conceded defeat.
RESUMED: Partially, the United Nations human rights watchdog in Venezuela, its chief said on Monday, after it was forced to leave the country nearly 10 months ago following what the government described as a review of its activities.
9th December, 2024
APPOINTED: Burkina Faso's military government, Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as Prime Minister of the transition after it fired Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, and dissolved the government on Friday, a statement said on Saturday.
RELEASED: Hamas, a video claiming to show Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker in captivity on Saturday.
VISITING: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Cyprus on Tuesday as part of a regional tour, the island's presidency said on Sunday.
6th December, 2024
SHAKEN: Northern California by a powerful earthquake of magnitude 7 which hit off the coast of a sparsely populated area on Thursday, prompting coastal towns to evacuate low-lying areas amid a tsunami warning that was later cancelled.
ARRIVED: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Uruguay on Thursday seeking to finalise a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc; France have slammed the agreement as "unacceptable".
RECOGNISED: UNESCO, Japan's ancient process of sake brewing as an "intangible cultural heritage"; producers hope this will boost global interest in the traditional rice wine that dates back centuries but has waned in popularity at home.
5th December, 2024
SHOT: Fatally, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth's insurance unit, on Wednesday morning outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel in what police described as a targeted attack by a gunman lying in wait for him.
KILLED: Twelve Vietnamese soldiers were killed in an apparently accidental explosion while in training in southern Vietnam, state media reported late on Wednesday.
CAME INTO FORCE: The "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty" agreed by the leaders of North Korea and Russia in June on Wednesday with the exchange of "ratification instruments" in Moscow, the North's KCNA news agency reported.
4th December, 2024
LIT UP: An asteroid, the sky in Russia's remote far eastern region of Yakutia early on Wednesday, producing a fireball before likely burning up in the atmosphere, officials and scientists said.
RESUMED: Fighting in eastern Congo on Monday, again violating a ceasefire, the M23 rebel group and Congolese army said; the news casts doubt on whether the M23 group will cease its offensive after the withdrawal of Rwandan troops.
DIED: Australia's long-serving Davis Cup captain Neale Fraser, who won three Grand Slam singles titles during the country's golden era of tennis in the 1950s and 1960s, at age 91.
3rd December, 2024
SUBMITTED: Far-right and left-wing parties in France, no-confidence motions on Monday against Prime Minister Michel Barnier; the move means the French Government is all but certain to collapse later this week.
DROPPED: Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday to shelve the planned hosting of the "Friendship Games", a big multi-sports event that the International Olympic Committee had condemned as a purely political project.
SINKING: The VSG Glory, a cargo ship that began sinking on Monday near the coral reefs off Quseir in the Red Sea Governorate after being stranded for 10 days, maritime sources told Reuters; Egyptian authorities are scrambling to salvage the vessel.
2nd December, 2024
PROTESTED: Thailand, an incident involving Myanmar's navy firing on Thai fishing vessels, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Sunday, after one fisherman drowned, two were injured and dozens were detained from one of the boats.
ANNOUNCED: Donald Trump, Kash Patel, 44, as his nomination to head the FBI; Patel has called for the bureau to be purged of those who oppose Trump's agenda and has also advocated for a campaign of retribution against Trump's perceived enemies.
IMPACTED: Torrential rains, flooding homes, businesses and roads in the popular Greek tourist island of Rhodes on Sunday, forcing authorities to temporarily ban the use of vehicles as Storm Bora pounded the country for a second day.
29th November, 2024
ARRESTED: New York police, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters who briefly interrupted the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday by attempting to block the parade route just ahead of the Ronald McDonald float.
ISSUED: The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia, a cease-and-desist order to Elon Musk's satellite internet provider Starlink for operating in the country without a license.
DENIED: Russian President Vladimir Putin, that he had deliberately used his black labrador Koni to intimidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting in 2007 that became a notorious diplomatic incident; the denial comes after Merkel wrote in her new memoir Freedom that she had asked an aide the previous year to request Putin's team not to bring out Koni in her presence because she was afraid of dogs.
28th November, 2024
CONDEMNED: The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland, the escalating violence against civilians in Mozambique, a southern African nation currently embroiled in weeks of post-election protests.
ARRESTED: In the UK, seven people and police were searching a Kurdish community centre in London as part of a counter terrorism investigation into suspected activity linked to the banned Kurdistan Workers Party, known as the PKK, according to police.
TAPPED: Donald Trump, Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who presented him with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, to serve as a special envoy for the conflict, the President-elect wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday.
27th November, 2024
MISSING: Twenty people after a speedboat struck a submerged log and capsized in Nigeria's southern state of Delta; five people were killed in the incident a police spokesperson said on Tuesday.
CONVICTED: An Ecuadorean court, 20 of 21 total defendants in a wide-ranging organised crime and drug trafficking case involving the Andean country's judicial system, sentencing them to between 40 months and 10 years in prison.
KILLED: At least one person in Bangladesh in clashes between security forces and Hindus protesting against the arrest of a religious leader, police said, even as neighbouring India urged that the safety of Hindus and minorities be ensured.
26th November, 2024
CRASHED: A bus in the north-eastern Brazilian state of Alagoas on Sunday, killing at least 17 people while 29 others were rescued, the state's health secretariat said.
FOUND: Greece's coastguard, the bodies of eight migrants - six minors and two women - who drowned off the island of Samos, authorities said on Monday, in the second migrant shipwreck in the Aegean Sea this month.
ERUPTED: Scuffles in the Serbian parliament on Monday after opposition legislators raised banners accusing the ruling coalition of trying to shirk responsibility for the collapse of a train station roof that killed 15 people earlier this month.
25th November, 2024
KILLED: A gunman after a shooting injured three Jordanian policemen near the heavily fortified Israeli embassy in the capital Amman in Sunday's early hours, a security source and state media said.
ARRESTED: Three people in the United Arab Emirates in connection with the alleged murder of an Israeli citizen - Zvi Kogan, 28, the Emirati interior ministry said on Sunday.
SIGNED: On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin, a law on debt forgiveness for new army recruits signing up to fight in Ukraine, a Russian government website showed.
22nd November, 2024
ARRESTED: Prosecutors in the Serbian city of Novi Sad, 11 people in connection with the collapse of a railway station roof that killed 15 people and sparked a wave of protests.
APPOINTED: Mali's ruling junta, its spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, as Prime Minister; the move comes a day after firing Choguel Maiga who had criticised the administration, state television reported.
DIED: John Prescott, deputy Prime Minister to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair during his 10 years in government, at age 86 after a battle with Alzheimer's, his family said.
21st November, 2024
FIRED: Mali's Prime Minister Choguel Maiga has been fired, state television ORTM said; Maiga had criticised the ruling junta's failure to organise elections within a promised 24-month transition back to democracy.
KIDNAPPED: A veteran Ugandan opposition politician, Kizza Besigye, during a book launch in Kenya at the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in the capital, his wife, Winnie Byanyima, said.
DISRUPTIONS: In Greece where a general strike docked ships and disrupted rail and bus services, as thousands of workers marched in Athens to demand better pay and living standards.
20th November, 2024
COLLIDED: A driver in an SUV with students and pedestrians outside a primary school in Changde city, Hunan province, in southern China on Tuesday, leaving several people injured, state media said; the incident came as worries spread over a spate of violent attacks in the country in the past week; a 39-year-old male had been arrested.
PROTESTS: By French farmers for a second day on Tuesday over EU-Mercosur trade talks; they come amid rural discontent over unfair competition, burdensome regulations and low farm income.
WITHDRAWN: Argentina, of its force from the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, a UNIFIL spokesperson said on Tuesday, in the first sign of cracks in the unity of the mission following attacks it has blamed on Israel.
19th November, 2024
CUT: Two undersea fibre-optic communications cables in the Baltic Sea, including one linking Finland and Germany; the incident has raised suspicions of sabotage by bad actors, countries and companies involved said on Monday.
RESUMING: The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service, flights within Haiti on Wednesday after around a week's hiatus and resolving regulatory issues, according to a statement from the UN World Food Programme.
INVESTIGATING: Authorities in Russia are looking into the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg, after he fell from an apartment block balcony and died at the age of 39.
18th November, 2024
COLLAPSED: A building in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, killing at least 13 people; more than 80 people have reportedly been rescued.
KILLED: Ten newborn babies, from burns and suffocation after a fire swept through a neonatal intensive care unit at the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College in Jhansi district about 285 kilometres south-west of Lucknow northern India, a government official said on Saturday.
DIED: Celeste Caeiro, the Portuguese woman who handed out carnations to soldiers rebelling against a fascist dictatorship in a 1974 coup that became known globally as the Carnation Revolution, on Friday at the age of 91.
15th November, 2024
NOMINATING: Donald Trump, Robert Kennedy, Jr - a noted vaccine sceptic, to head the US federal health agency.
INVESTIGATING: The prosecutor's office of Mexico's Sinaloa state, the killing of some 14 people, whose bodies were found around the city of Culiacan, it said in a statement on Thursday.
LEAVING: Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia will stop posting on billionaire Elon Musk's X platform and plans to suspend its accounts, saying on Thursday the social media network had become an "echo chamber" for disinformation and conspiracy theories; it comes after a similar move by the UK-based The Guardian earlier in the week.
14th November, 2024
NOMINATED: Donald Trump, US representative Matt Gaetz, for US attorney general, Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, Fox News commentator and veteran Mike Hegseth as secretary of defense.
QUIT: British news publisher the Guardian, social media platform X, citing "disturbing content" on it, including racism and conspiracy theories.
DIED: British-German artist Frank Auerbach, who was sent to England to escape Nazism and went on to become one of the most significant figurative painters of his age, at age 93.
13th November, 2024
CRASHED: A bus carrying 27 passengers which fell into the Indus river in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 14 people, according to a statement from the Gilgit Baltistan authorities.
ANNOUNCED: President-elect Donald Trump that he was nominating former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee to be the next US ambassador to Israel, tapping a staunchly pro-Israel conservative whose choice could signal future US policy toward conflicts in the Middle East.
DELAYED: Justice Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money case, ruling on whether the President-elect's conviction should be thrown out on immunity grounds.
12th November, 2024
PROTESTED: Thousands of people who gathered in Belgrade, Serbia, on Monday, demanding arrests of those responsible for an accident at a railway station in the northern town of Novi Sad in which 14 people were killed.
CHOSEN: Republican US Representative Elise Stefanik to serve as US ambassador to the United Nations, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday.
ANNOUNCED: The World Health Organization that talks aimed at reaching a global agreement on how to better fight pandemics will continue into next year and are expected to be completed by the next World Health Assembly in May.
11th November, 2024
TO NAME: Haiti, Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace its Prime Minister, Garry Conille, who was appointed to the role in May, according to a draft resolution by the Caribbean nation's transitional presidential council, seen by Reuters.
CHARGED: The United States, an Iranian man on Friday in connection with an alleged plot ordered by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said.
STATED: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, that he would be willing to call a vote of confidence in parliament before Christmas, a move that would pave the way for snap elections following the collapse of his three-way governing coalition.
8th November, 2024
ANNOUNCED: President-elect Donald Trump, that Susie Wiles, one of his two campaign managers, will be his White House chief of staff; Wiles will be the first woman to serve in the role.
SEEKING: Assurances, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention that US President-elect Donald Trump's administration will provide the funding and mpox vaccines promised by his predecessor.
MISSING: Thirteen sailors from a fishing boat has sunk in waters off South Korea's Jeju Island - 14 sailors were rescued, the Yonhap news agency reported on Friday citing the coast guard.
7th November, 2024
CLOSED: South Africa, temporarily, its main border crossing with Mozambique over safety concerns, its border authority said on Wednesday, as protests against last month's disputed election in Mozambique continued to escalate.
SET: Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris, to call a parliamentary election on Friday, Deputy Prime Minister Micheál Martin said.
STATED: Britain's Prince William, who is currently in South Africa, that his wife Kate was doing "really well" and had been amazing in a year when she has undergone preventative chemotherapy for cancer.
6th November, 2024
FIRED: North Korea, at least seven short-range ballistic missiles on Tuesday off its east coast, Japan's defence minister said, soon after Pyongyang condemned military drills by its rivals and just hours before the US election.
KILLED: At least seven people during an Israeli military raid and airstrikes on the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said.
SKIPPING: World leaders from major economies including the United States, the European Union and Brazil are planning to miss this year's United Nations climate change summit, known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
5th November, 2024
CRASHED: A bus which plunged into a gorge in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Monday, killing at least 36 people and injuring six, an official told Reuters.
VISITING: Britain's Prince William, South Africa on a four-day trip where he met young environmentalists and playing rugby with local schoolchildren in Cape Town on Monday.
DIED: Quincy Jones, the man known simply as "Q" who worked with artists ranging from Count Basie to Frank Sinatra and reshaped pop music in his collaborations with Michael Jackson, on Sunday at the age of 91, his publicist said.
4th November, 2024
PROBING: Israeli officials, a suspected leak of classified Gaza documents involving an aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
CHARGED: In Nigeria, 76 people, including 30 minors, with treason and inciting a military coup after they took part in deadly August protests against economic hardship, court documents showed on Friday.
SWORN IN: Kenya's new Deputy President Kithure Kindik on Friday after a court lifted orders barring his inauguration following weeks of legal challenges by his predecessor, who was impeached by parliament last month.
1st November, 2024
LIFTED: Kenya's high court, orders barring the swearing-in of newly appointed Deputy President Kithure Kindiki, whose predecessor Rigathi Gachagua has launched legal challenges over his removal from office by impeachment.
BANNED: Authorities in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, the wearing of masks or costumes on Thursday night for Halloween to avoid being confused with criminals amid a worsening cycle of cartel violence.
RECOGNISED: A top court in Moldova the results of a pivotal 20th October referendum, paving the way for the country to enshrine in its constitution its wish to join the EU; President Maia Sandu hailed the move an "historic step".
31st October, 2024
DESIGNATED: Lithuania's opposition Social Democrats, the winners of Sunday's parliamentary election, deputy leader Gintautas Paluckas to be the Baltic republic's next prime minister.
KILLED: Suspected cult members in the hamlet of Mizizi A, Uganda, at least eight people, including a child as young as three and members of the assailants' families, authorities said on Wednesday.
DETECTED: Britain, its first case of new mpox variant clade Ib, the country's health security agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday, adding that the risk to the population remained low.
30th October, 2024
ATTACKED: Armed men, the construction site of a small dam in Pakistan's south-western Balochistan province killing five people, officials said on Tuesday, underscoring a worsening security situation in the mineral-rich area.
SENTENCED: A court in Belgium, more than 100 people in a mass drugs trafficking trial on Tuesday which authorities hailed as a major victory in the battle against drug gangs.
PROTESTS: On the French Caribbean island of Martinique with cars torched and police attacked in a new night of trouble o, the local government said on Tuesday, as violent demonstrations over rising living costs show no signs of abating.
29th October, 2024
ATTACKED: A military base in Chad's Lake region over the weekend with around 40 soldiers killed, the central African country's presidency said on Monday.
AGREED: Morocco, to buy high-speed trains from French company Alstom, one of a series of business deals signed during President Emmanuel Macron's state visit to the kingdom as the two countries turn the page on years of diplomatic tensions.
DEMANDING: Press groups in Venezuela, the whereabouts of a veteran journalist in Venezuela who has not been heard from since Friday; press advocates allege he had been detained by government authorities in the country's capital.
28th October, 2024
RAMMED: A truck, a bus stop at a major intersection near Tel Aviv in central Israel in what police said they suspected was a terrorist attack in which one person was killed and dozens were injured on Sunday.
DIED: Nineteen people with six others were injured when a bus crashed on a highway in Mexico's central state of Zacatecas on Saturday, local authorities said.
REPORTED: The Washington Post, that South African-born billionaire businessman Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States during a brief period in the 1990s while building a startup company; Musk denied the report, saying he was allowed to legally work in the US during that period.
25th October, 2024
RELEASED: Bushra Bibi, the wife of former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, from prison on Thursday, a day after she was granted bail in a case linked to the illegal sale of state gifts, ending about nine months of imprisonment.
RECOMMENDED: A Los Angeles prosecutor, that he would ask a judge to release Erik and Lyle Menendez on parole after nearly 35 years in prison for the shotgun murder of their parents, as new evidence emerged indicating they were sexually abused by their father for years.
CANCELLED: A referendum on building a new nuclear plant in Slovenia after lawmakers voted against it; the move comes after environmental groups and experts filed complaints questioning its legality at the constitutional court.
24th October, 2024
URGED: More than 60 Democratic lawmakers from the US House of Representatives for US President Joe Biden to use Washington's leverage with Pakistan to secure the release of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
STRIKING: Bus drivers in Peru, angry over violent attacks and extortion, for the third time in less than a month on Wednesday, disrupting the country's sprawling capital as the government moved to quell anxiety over rising crime rates.
ASKED: Donald Trump ally Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow.com, a US appeals court on Wednesday to strike down a $US5 million award to a man who successfully debunked his claims of 2020 election fraud.
23rd October, 2024
ATTACKED: A fair in Mali's northern Timbuktu region with a drone, killing at least eight people including children while 20 injured, Tuareg rebels said on Tuesday.
CHARGED: Mike Jeffries, the former longtime chief executive of Abercrombie & Fitch, with sex trafficking and prostitution involving dozens of men in a 16-count indictment unveiled on Tuesday by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, US.
RECOVERED: Ten bodies were recovered from the scene of a fuel tanker explosion in Uganda's capital Kampala on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
22nd October, 2024
CONVICTED: Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, who was sentenced to 20 years and six months behind bars on Monday for taking bribes from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht.
HELD: Former Albanian President Ilir Meta, by police over corruption allegations, his lawyer said on Monday, calling the arrest politically motivated.
DIED: US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who built a powerful Islamic movement in Turkey and beyond but spent his later years mired in accusations of orchestrating an attempted coup against Turkish leader Tayyip Erdogan, at the age of 83.
21st October, 2024
RESCUED: More than 230 migrants, from one flimsy boat on Sunday in seas off Spain's Canary Islands, the coastguard said.
REPORTED: Sudan's army, that a commander from its foe the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had defected with some of his troops, in what would be the first such move by a senior figure since the sides started fighting more than 18 months ago.
CANCELLED: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a trip to Russia for the BRICS summit, following medical advice to temporarily avoid long-haul flights after hurting his head in an accident at home.
18th October, 2024
CARRIED OUT: The United States, air strikes against five underground weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, in a strike that used B-2 stealth bombers against the Iran-aligned group for the first time.
INDICTED: By a grand jury in Barrow County, US, 14-year-old alleged shooter Colt Gray and his father Colin Gray, 54, who bought him the gun on Thursday in the September slaying of two students and two teachers at a Georgia high school.
"DEVASTATED": Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates, speaking in a joint statement on Thursday after news of his death at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor hotel room balcony in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
17th October, 2024
DIED: Former One Direction singer Liam Payne, who was found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires after falling from his third-floor room balcony, Argentine police confirmed on Wednesday.
SENTENCED: Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico's fight against the country's violent drug trade, to more than 38 years in US prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight.
INSTRUCTED: Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the government to request the extradition of 63 Brazilian nationals currently in Argentina who are linked to an alleged 2023 coup attempt, the court said on Wednesday.
16th October, 2024
CANCELLED: The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a mission to Hungary to discuss anti-bribery measures, citing the government's failure to act on its previous recommendations.
CLAIMED: North Korean state media, that around 1.4 million young people including students and youth league officials joined or returned to the army this week.
ARRIVED: A pair of giant pandas, in Washington, DC, from China on Tuesday to move into their new home at the US National Zoo, which has been without the black-and-white bears, one of its most popular attractions, for nearly a year.
15th October, 2024
CRASHED: A bus, overturning on a highway connecting Cairo to the Red Sea coast in Egypt; at least 12 people were killed and 33 injured, the Egyptian health ministry said.
STORMED: Islamist militants, a north-western Pakistani district police office on Monday, killing three policemen and a civilian before police shot and killed all five attackers.
DENIED: Ukraine, media reports that it has been involved in supplying drones to rebels fighting in the north of Mali.
14th October, 2024
CONFIRMED: Zimbabwe, its first two cases of mpox, the health ministry said on Sunday, without specifying which variant had been recorded.
COMMITTED: Australia's government, an extra $A95 million to protect against a destructive bird flu strain that has spread through bird and mammal populations worldwide but not yet reached the island continent.
DIED: Scottish former First Minister Alex Salmond, who helped change the course of Scottish politics and pushed Scotland to the verge of independence from the United Kingdom, died on Saturday at the age of 69.
11th October, 2024
TO MEET: A group of five nuclear weapons states in New York in the next two weeks, Russian state media quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday.
DELAYED: The European Union, the introduction of a new biometric entry-check system for non-EU citizens, which was due to be introduced on 10th November, after Germany, France and the Netherlands said border computer systems were not yet ready.
FINISHING: Rafa Nadal will call time on his illustrious but injury-plagued career after next month's Davis Cup Finals, the 22-times Grand Slam champion announced on Thursday, as one of the greatest players in the sport prepares for an emotional farewell.
10th October, 2024
ACCUSED: The leader of the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, Egypt of being involved in airstrikes on the group's troops.
FAILED: Argentina's lower house of Congress, to reverse President Javier Milei's veto of a law that would have boosted university funding, a win for the libertarian leader after mass protests opposing his move.
DIED: Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate on the global stage with a string of high-profile acquisitions, at the age of 86.
9th October, 2024
KILLED: At least two people in Russian attacks on Ukraine's north-eastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday while more than 30 people were injured, including a child, regional officials said.
FAILED: A leftist no-confidence motion aimed at bringing down French Prime Minister Michel Barnier's centre-right administration on Tuesday.
NON-STARTER: A television debate ahead of Moldova's presidential election broke up on Tuesday when pro-European incumbent Maia Sandu did not attend and one of her two main rivals walked out of the studio.
8th October, 2024
UNDERWAY: Rescue efforts after a mine pit collapsed in Zambia's Mumbwa District, killing 10 people and injuring five, police said on Monday.
STRUCK: A Palau-flagged vessel by a Russian missile in Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa on Monday, killing one Ukrainian national and injuring five foreign nationals, regional Governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.
JAILED: A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old US citizen, Stephen James Hubbard, a native of Michigan, to six years and 10 months in prison after convicting him in a closed-door trial of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine, a Reuters reporter in the courtroom said.
7th October, 2024
KILLED: At least one person with 10 injured in an explosion near the international airport of the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday night, local broadcaster Geo News reported.
VOTED: Kazakhstan in a referendum on Sunday on whether to build its first nuclear power plant, and an exit poll showed voters backed the idea promoted by President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's cabinet as a way to phase out polluting coal plants.
QUIT: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's chief of staff Sue Gray, on Sunday following rumours about tensions within his team of advisers that cast a shadow over his government little more than three months after a landslide election victory.
4th October, 2024
EXPRESSED: The United Nations Security Council, its full support for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres after Israel's foreign minister said he was barring him from entering the country.
THREATENED: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, that the country would not hesitate to use all available offensive forces including nuclear weapons if the enemy attempted to use force to encroach on its sovereignty, state news agency KCNA reported on Friday.
MARCHED: Thousands of protesters in Vienna on Thursday to urge Austria's political parties, particularly the ruling conservatives, not to go into government with the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after it won a general election for the first time on Sunday.
3rd October, 2024
BARRED: Israel, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres from entering the country because he had not "unequivocally" condemned Iran's missile attack on Israel, Israel's foreign minister said on Wednesday.
PLEADED: Guilty, Dr Mark Chavez, of San Diego - one of two California doctors among five people charged in the overdose death of Friends star Matthew Perry, to illegally distributing the drug ketamine in US District Court in Los Angeles.
TO REMAIN: In detention in Greenland, anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, where he has been held since July, while Denmark decides whether to extradite him to Japan, a local court in the Danish autonomous region ruled on Wednesday.
2nd October, 2024
KILLED: At least 23 people died in Thailand when a school bus carrying more than 40 students and teachers on a field trip caught fire in the outskirts of the capital Bangkok, police said on Tuesday.
ATTACKED: People at a suburban supermarket in Shanghai on Monday by a man armed with a knife, killing three and injuring 15 others; the attack which came on the eve of China's week-long National Day holiday is the latest in a series of stabbing incidents in major Chinese cities this year.
DIED: John Amos, the US football player turned actor who was acclaimed for his roles in the 1970s TV series Good Times as well as the miniseries Roots, died on 21st August at age 84, his son Kelly Christopher (KC) Amos said.
1st October, 2024
ON TRIAL: Marine Le Pen, the leading figure of France's far-right National Rally (RN) party, after she was accused of misappropriating EU funds. Le Pen said she was confident she would prove she did nothing wrong.
ASKED: Equatorial Guinea, judges at the International Court of Justice to reject Gabon's claim to several islands in potentially oil-rich waters in the Gulf of Guinea.
READY: To embark, cruise passengers from Belfast on Monday on a three-and-a-half-year world voyage after being stranded in the city for months as the ship underwent unexpected repair works. Some plan to make it their forever home.
30th September, 2024
KILLED: At least six people and 10 injured on Saturday by bomb explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu and a town in the country's Middle Shabelle region, police and witnesses said.
DIED: Maggie Smith, one of the most acclaimed actors of her generation with a career ranging from Shakespeare to Harry Potter and Downton Abbey, has died aged 89, her family said on Friday.
DIED: Kris Kristofferson, who became one of the most influential American singer-songwriters of his time with works such as Me and Bobby McGee, as well as becoming a successful actor, died Saturday at the age of 88, according to a family statement.
27th September, 2024
UNLEASHED: Russia. a new barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight on Wednesday, again targeting the energy sector and killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.
ASKED: Hungary's chief prosecutor, the president of the European Parliament to suspend the parliamentary immunity of Prime Minister Orban's main political rival, MEP Peter Magyar, the prosecutor's office said on Thursday.
GRANTED: Switzerland, five districts the go-ahead on Thursday to shoot wolves after reports of attacks on livestock, a move that will please many farmers but anger conservationists who say culls have gone too far.
26th September, 2024
SURVIVED: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a vote of confidence on Wednesday after his main political rival failed to muster enough support to end nine years of Liberal Party rule.
CLAIMED: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that Iran may have been behind recent attempts to assassinate him and suggested that if he were president and another country threatened a US presidential candidate, it risked being "blown to smithereens".
SUGGESTED: Juan Antonio Samaranch Junior, a contender in the race to become the next president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), that future Olympic Games could be held during the winter months to allow countries with extreme summer temperatures to participate without the challenges posed by heat.
25th September, 2024
CHARGED: Ryan Routh, 58 - the man accused of staking out Donald Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle with a charge of attempted assassination of a political candidate, federal prosecutors said.
PUSHED BACK: NASA, the launch of its Crew-9 mission with SpaceX has been pushed back to 28th September due to Tropical Storm Helene.
RETURNING: Finland, two giant pandas to China in November, more than eight years ahead of time, as the zoo where they live can no longer afford their upkeep, the chair of the zoo's board told Reuters on Tuesday.
24th September, 2024
CONVICTED: Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 25, who killed 10 people in a mass shooting at a Colorado grocery store in 2021, on Monday of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; he had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
ISSUED: Mexico, a red alert for parts of the country's southern Pacific coast on Monday after Hurricane John rapidly strengthened to a Category 2 storm and threatened to get stronger before making landfall in the coming hours.
PASSED: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Monday a bill that requires schools to limit or ban the use of smartphones, amid a growing consensus that excess usage can increase the risk of mental illness and impair learning.
23rd September, 2024
RAIDED: Israeli forces, the bureau of media network Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Sunday morning, issuing it with a military order to shut down operations, the network and the Israeli military said on Sunday.
RESUMED: Hundreds of Tunisians, protests protested against President Kais Saied, accusing him of deepening authoritarian rule and stifling political competition two weeks before a presidential election.
DROPPED: Ireland, a proposal for hate speech laws, its justice minister said on Saturday; the move was a central part of the response to riots in Dublin last year following criticism from some government lawmakers, opponents and billionaire Elon Musk.
20th September, 2024
ARRESTED: In Portugal, 14 suspected arsonists this week, who may have set some of the dozens of deadly wildfires raging across the country, contributing to the fire risks stemming from climate change and rural depopulation.
DIED: A child enrolled in a Japanese school in the Chinese city of Shenzhen has died after being stabbed on Wednesday, officials confirmed, the second such attack near Japanese educational centres in China in recent months.
RELEASED: Former coup leader George Speight, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in Fiji in 2002 for treason, from prison on Thursday after he was pardoned by Fiji's Mercy Commission, officials said.
19th September, 2024
SUSPENDED: Colombia's government, peace talks with leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), its peace delegation said on Wednesday, following an attack which killed two soldiers and injured more than two dozen.
DISMANTLED: By an international law enforcement operation, an encrypted communication platform, known as Ghost, notorious for enabling large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, Europol said on Wednesday.
TESTED: North Korea, new tactical ballistic missiles using super-large warheads and modified cruise missiles on Wednesday led by leader Kim Jong Un, who called for stronger conventional weapons and nuclear capabilities, state news agency KCNA reported.
18th September, 2024
PLEADED: Sean "Diddy" Combs, 54, not guilty in Manhattan federal court hours after a 14-page indictment was unsealed; Combs faces a sentence of up to life in prison, and a minimum of 15 years, if convicted of the three felony counts: racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
PROBING: The FBI and US Postal Inspection Service, suspicious packages that were sent to election officials in six states on Monday, the law enforcement agency said in a statement on Tuesday.
BANNED: RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from Meta's platforms; Meta claimed the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out covert influence operations online.
17th September, 2024
PLEADED: Not guilty, Pakistani Asif Merchant, 46, to charges stemming from an alleged plot to assassinate an American politician in retaliation for the killing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards top commander Qassem Soleimani.
COMPLETED: The US military, its withdrawal of nearly 1,000 military personnel from Niger.
WON: Shogun, a sweeping, historical epic set in imperial Japan, the prestigious best drama trophy at Sunday's Emmy Awards, while Hacks upset defending comedy champion The Bear at television's highest honours.
13th September, 2024
ATTACKED: Residents of Daykundi province in Afghanistan, with unknown militants killing several people and injuring others, the country's Interior Ministry spokesman said; it is the first attack on civilians in Daykundi province since the Taliban took power.
DISMISSED: A Georgia judge, two criminal counts in the US state's 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one other count against allies of the former President.
POSTPONED: A trial of eight health workers charged with "homicide by negligence" over the death of Diego Maradona from October until March, Argentine media reported on Thursday.
12th September, 2024
INDICTED: Albania's main opposition leader Sali Berisha on Wednesday on corruption charges for actions he took when he was Prime Minister, he described the indictment as a political vendetta.
ANNOUNCED: Kosovo, the indictment of 45 suspects on terrorism charges on Wednesday, almost a year after ethnic Serb gunmen stormed a north Kosovo village and battled police in a shootout that left four people dead including a police officer.
DIED: Peruvian former President Alberto Fujimori, who steered economic growth during the 1990s but was later jailed for human rights abuses stemming from a bloody war against Maoist rebels, at the age of 86.
11th September, 2024
FOUND: The Senegalese navy, 17 more bodies from a boat carrying migrants that capsized off the coast, taking the death toll to 26.
AWARDED: A Michigan inmate who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a party almost 30 years ago, $US100 million judgment against the rapper and record producer.
EXAMINING: Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court, the reported death of Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif and will withdraw their case against him if they can confirm it, legal filings made public on Tuesday showed.
10th September, 2024
KILLED: At least 18 people in the southern Morocco provinces of Tata, Tiznit, Errachidia, Tinghir and Taroudant in floods from torrential rains, authorities said in a latest death toll on Monday.
FINISHED: Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, said on Monday her course of preventative chemotherapy for cancer was completed, saying the treatment had given her a new perspective and made her grateful for "simply loving and being loved".
DIED: American actor James Earl Jones, an imposing stage and screen presence who overcame a childhood stutter to develop a stentorian voice recognised the world over as intergalactic villain Darth Vader, on Monday at the age of 93.
9th September, 2024
MANHUNT: In the US state of Kentucky, for a suspected gunman who opened fire on vehicles traveling a rural stretch of Interstate 75 a day earlier, shooting and injuring five people.
KILLED: At least four civilians after multiple Israeli strikes on Syria's Hama countryside late on Sunday, Syrian state media reported, with sources saying the attacks targeted a major military research centre.
INVESTIGATING: Romania and Latvia, both NATO members and supporters of Ukraine in its 2 1/2-year-old war with Russia, instances of Russian drones that crashed after breaching their airspace, authorities in both countries said.
5th September, 2024
REDUCED: Capacity at one unit of the South Ukraine nuclear power plant after Russian attacks damaged the country's electricity transmission system, nuclear firm Energoatom said on Wednesday.
VISITING: Turkey, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in the first such visit in 12 years, where he met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and discussed the Gaza war and ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the regional powers during talks in Ankara.
DETAINED: A US Navy sailor in Venezuela after travelling there on personal leave without required authorisation from US military authorities, two US officials told Reuters on Wednesday.
4th September, 2024
CAPSIZED: A boat on its way across the Channel to Britain, killing at least 12 migrants on Tuesday, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, adding that rescue operations were underway to find two people still missing.
KILLED: Eleven people in China's eastern Shandong province on Tuesday after a school bus lost control at a busy pedestrian junction, broadcaster CCTV reported.
DISMISSED: By Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, his deputy chief of staff Rostyslav Shurma, according to a decree on the presidential website; meanwhile the chairman of parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk, announced the resignation of Olha Stefanishyna, Deputy Prime Minister responsible for European integration.
3rd September, 2024
KILLED: Six people following an explosion in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Monday, the country's interior ministry and police said.
SUSPENDING: The UK, 30 of its 350 arms export licences with Israel because there was a risk such equipment might be used to commit serious violations of international humanitarian law, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said on Monday.
COMMENCING: The salvage operation of the oil tanker MV Sounion, which was recently attacked by Iran-aligned Houthi militants, the European Union's mission in the Red Sea, Aspides, said on Monday.
2nd September, 2024
CONFIRMED: That there were no survivors among the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that crashed in the far eastern peninsula of Kamchatka with 22 people on board, state news agency TASS said on Sunday.
DIED: Seven people, including a six-year-old and 16-year-old, were killed when a bus overturned east of Vicksburg, Mississippi, early on Saturday, Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey said.
MARRIED: Norway's Princess Martha Louise married her long-term partner, American spiritual guru Durek Verrett, on Saturday in a ceremony attended by the Norwegian king and other royalty.
30th August, 2024
SHOT DOWN: Iraq's air defences, a Turkish drone on Thursday in Iraqi air space over the northern city of Kirkuk, four police and army sources said.
OFFLINE: More than half of Libya's oil production, or about 700,000 barrels per day, on Thursday and exports were halted at several ports as a standoff between rival political factions over the central bank and oil revenue threatens to end a four-year period of relative peace.
DIED: New Zealand's Maori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on 30th August at age 69, according to a statement released by his representatives.
29th March, 2024
BANNED: Russia's foreign ministry, entry to Russia for 92 US citizens including journalists, lawyers, and the heads of what it said were key military-industrial firms over what it described as Washington's Russophobic stance.
ANNOUNCED: One person died and 10 were injured due to a gas leak at an Iranian Revolutionary Guards facility in Isfahan, the force said in a statement.
OVERTURNING: The Swiss Government, a ban on building new power plants to strengthen local energy supply at a time of increased geopolitical tension.
28th August, 2024
DISCUSSING: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, a landmark economic and defence accord with German leaders on Wednesday, hoping to use a visit to pursue a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" to reset relations with the rest of Europe.
UNDERTAKEN: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, major changes to his cabinet, including leadership of the oil and finance ministries and state oil company PDVSA, after a contested election both the ruling party and the opposition claim to have won.
CLAIMED: Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg, that the Biden administration had pressured the company to "censor" COVID-19 content during the pandemic, apparently referring to White House requests to take down misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.
27th August, 2024
ARRESTED: Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder of messaging app Telegram, in France as part of an investigation into crimes related to child pornography, drug trafficking and fraudulent transactions on the platform, French prosecutors said on Monday.
REDUCING: Canada, by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the program it made in 2022 as the government struggles to bring down numbers of temporary residents.
CLOSING: Denmark, its embassies in Mali and Burkina Faso after a series of military coups over the past few years, the Danish foreign ministry said on Monday, as it formally launched a new strategy for its cooperation with the African continent.
26th August, 2024
KILLED: At least 34 people in two bus accidents in north-east and south-west Pakistan on Sunday, the authorities said>
ATTACKED: Nigerian police, in an attack involving knives and explosives by the Islamic Movement of Nigeria in capital Abuja on Sunday; two officers were killed and three left unconscious.
ARRESTED: Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire founder and owner of the Telegram messaging app, at Le Bourget airport outside Paris shortly after landing on a private jet late on Saturday and placed in custody, three sources told Reuters.
23rd August, 2024
DIED: Seven people in a fire at a nine-story hotel in Bucheon, just west of the capital Seoul in South Korea; 12 others have been injured, fire authorities said on Friday.
RETRIEVED: The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm, a senior Italian official said; Lynch's 18-year-old daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for.
ATTACKED: Gunmen, a village in Nigeria's northern Niger state, killing at least 10 farmers on Wednesday, residents said.
22nd August, 2024
KILLED: Three members of staff at a high school in western Bosnian on Wednesday when a cleaner opened fire with an automatic rifle before trying to take his own life, police said.
ARRAIGNED: Five Kenyan police officers on Wednesday, accused of helping a suspected serial killer and 12 others escape from a police station in the capital Nairobi, court documents showed.
APPROVED: Iran's parliament, President Masoud Pezeshkian's 19 ministers on Wednesday, state media reported, giving way to a cross-factional cabinet reflecting his focus on consensus after days of debate.
21st August, 2024
SIGNED: China and Vietnam, 14 documents spanning cross-border railways to crocodile exports on Monday, after Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Vietnam's new leader To Lam in Beijing.
UPHELD: The German Federal Court, a 99-year-old Irmgard Furchner's conviction for accessory to murder over her role as a typist at a Nazi concentration camp in the last two years of World War II.
DISMISSED: By the Taliban's morality ministry, more than 280 members of the security force for failure to grow a beard and detained more than 13,000 people in Afghanistan for "immoral acts" in the past year, officials said on Tuesday.
20th August, 2024
MISSING: Six people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter, after a luxury yacht was struck by an unexpectedly violent storm and sank off Sicily early on Monday; one man died in the incident.
PLEADED: Guilty, former US Representative George Santos, to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, the latter carrying a mandatory two-year prison sentence.
DIED: Former US TV host Phil Donohue, whose innovations included interacting with his audience, at the age of 88 on Sunday.
19th August, 2024
SUSPENDED: Libya's Tripoli-based central bank, all operations until a senior bank official kidnapped on Sunday was released.
INJURED: Three peacekeepers on patrol when an explosion occurred near their clearly marked UN vehicle in the village of Yarine in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti said on Sunday.
SHAKEN: Russia's Kamchatka region after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the east coast at a depth of 51 kilometres, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Saturday.
16th August, 2024
POSTPONED: An announcement on an end date for the US-led coalition's mission has been postponed due to the "latest developments", Iraq's foreign ministry said on Thursday.
SIGNED: Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith signed an extradition order for Kim Dotcom, who is facing criminal charges relating to the defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, to be sent to the United States from New Zealand.
SENTENCED: Dual Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Thursday after a Russian court found her guilty of treason for donating money to a charity supporting Ukraine.
15th August, 2024
DESTROYED: Nigerian army troops, at least 27 illicit refining sites following raids this week on illegal oil bunkering sites in the Niger River delta, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday.
CALLED: US President Joe Biden, for the immediate release of Austin Tice, a former US Marine and a freelance journalist who was kidnapped in Syria in August, 2012.
COLLIDED: Two French military jets in midair over the country's east on Wednesday, killing two military personnel and leaving a sole survivor, French officials said.
14th August, 2024
FOUND: A Ugandan court, a commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Thomas Kwoyelo, guilty of dozens of war crimes, the first time a senior member of the group has been tried by Uganda's judiciary.
RESCUED: Volunteer lifeguards from Spanish charity Open Arms assisted 54 migrants stranded on a rubber dinghy in the Mediterranean Sea off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Tuesday, according to a Reuters witness.
FILED: The United Auto Workers Union, complaints with the National Labor Relations Board against Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk over what it says are attempts to threaten and intimidate workers.
13th August, 2024
DENIED: The White House, that the US played a role in ousting Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who recently quit her position and fled the South Asian nation; White House called the allegations of US interference "simply false".
RESIGNED: Canada's new Chief Human Rights Commissioner, Birju Dattani, before he even officially began the role, following an investigation into his appointment and controversy over past remarks he made about Israel.
DIED: Antonio Delfim Netto, one of Brazil's most prominent economists who was the economics tsar of the military government in the 1970s and 1980s, on Monday at the age of 96.
12th August, 2024
FOUND: Two bodies after a boat carrying migrants trying to cross the Channel from near the French port of Calais to Britain ran into difficulties early on Sunday, French authorities said.
URGED: Some lawmakers in the US Congress, sanctions on Bangladeshi officials under Sheikh Hasina who recently quit as Prime Minister and fled, while the US Government has formally welcomed the appointment of a new caretaker government there.
ARRESTED: In Paris, a climber who scaled the north face of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday, the last day of the Olympics, before he was intercepted by police mid-way up, police said.
9th August, 2024
EXPLODED: A wooden boat which caught fire on a river in Nigeria's coastal state of Bayelsa on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, a police spokesperson said.
PLANNED: An Austrian teenager arrested over an alleged plot to strike a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna, to carry out a suicide attack that would have caused a "bloodbath" and had vowed loyalty to Islamic State (IS), authorities said on Thursday.
REJECTED: The Mexican President, a request from Ukraine's government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of Mexico's next president in October.
8th August, 2024
CANCELLED: Taylor Swift's three concerts in Vienna this week, after the government confirmed a planned attack at the stadium, the organiser announced late on Wednesday, and Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer said "a tragedy was prevented".
ASKED: Britain and Egypt, their airlines to avoid Iranian and Lebanese airspace amid growing fears of a possible broader conflict in the region after the killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
SAID: Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, that he was returning after seven years in self-imposed exile to Spain, where he would likely be arrested over his role in the region's 2017 independence bid.
7th August, 2024
CUT TIES: Niger's junta, with Ukraine over remarks from officials it said showed Ukraine's support for groups involved in fighting in neighbouring Mali that killed dozens of soldiers and Russian Wagner fighters in July.
ARRESTED: 21 people suspected of links to an international human-trafficking network operating between Ecuador and the United States as a result of an extensive police operation in Costa Rica on Tuesday.
INVESTIGATING: French cyber crime police, a ransomware attack against the Grand Palais exhibition hall in Paris where Olympic events including fencing and Taekwondo are being held, Paris prosecutors said on Tuesday.
6th August, 2024
WOUNDED: At least five US personnel in an attack against a military base in Iraq on Monday, US officials told Reuters, as the Middle East braced for a possible new wave of attacks by Iran and its allies following last week's killing of senior members of militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
EXPLOSIONS: In the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, after an air raid siren sounded, but authorities said air defence units had intercepted incoming missiles.
CHARGED: A Virginia man, with making violent online threats against Vice President Kamala Harris days after she began her US presidential campaign.
5th August, 2024
DIED: A 24-year-old firefighter was killed by a falling tree while battling a forest blaze northeast of Jasper in the Western Canadian province of Alberta on Saturday, the police said in a statement.
DESTROYED: By floods and mudslides, village homes and part of a highway in China's south-western province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing at least two people and leaving 17 missing in two incidents, state media reported.
SHUT DOWN: British authorities, an online platform, named 'Russian Coms' but with no known link to the Russian state, which allowed criminals to make fraudulent phone calls to steal money from hundreds of thousands of people globally, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.
2nd August, 2024
REJECTED: A New York state appeals court, Donald Trump's challenge to a gag order in his hush money criminal case, where the former US President was convicted in May on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.
CLAIMED: Mali's northern Tuareg rebels, that they had killed at least 84 Russian Wagner mercenaries and 47 Malian soldiers over days of fierce fighting in late July, as Russia signalled its ongoing commitment to the Malian junta.
FOUND: An Air Force investigation, that a US military Osprey aircraft crash off the coast of Japan in November that killed all eight crew members was caused by a failure in the gear box and the pilot's decision making contributed to it.
1st August, 2024
AGREED: The man accused of masterminding the 11th September attacks in the US, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and two of his accomplices, held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to plead guilty, the Pentagon said.
BROKE OUT: A large fire in Rome on Wednesday on a hill near the Italian capital's court of justice and a public TV broadcasting centre, forcing the evacuation of several buildings and offices, firefighters said.
FOUND: Guilty, by a court in Guinea, former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other accused military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity in a 2009 stadium massacre.
31st July, 2024
PLEADED: Joaquin Guzman Lopez, son of convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, not guilty to US drug charges on Tuesday, five days after his arrest in a dramatic operation in which he delivered his father's former partner to US authorities.
SWORN-IN: Iran's new president Masoud Pezeshkian, on Tuesday, after winning an election earlier this month by promising to improve ties with the world and ease restrictions on social freedoms at home.
DECIDED: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, to pardon Rico Krieger, a German sentenced to death on terrorism and other charges, the BelTA state news agency reported on Tuesday.
30th July, 2024
KILLED: Two children who were stabbed to death at a Taylor Swift-themed event in north-west England, and a 17-year-old male suspect was arrested, police said on Monday; nine other children were wounded, six of them critically, and two adults were in a critical condition.
CRASHED: A train carrying 800 passengers into a truck at a level crossing in southern Russia on Monday, sending at least eight carriages off the track and injuring 52 people, local authorities said.
ORDERED: Morocco's King Mohammed VI, the release of jailed journalists Taoufik Bouachrine, Omar Radi and Soulaimane Raisouni, as part of a pardon benefiting 2,476 convicts, a government source said.
29th July, 2024
REVOKED: The Olympic organising committee, accreditations for four of its journalists in Paris on Sunday, Russia's state-run TASS news agency said, adding that the committee attributed the move to a decision by French authorities but gave Moscow no further explanation.
ENDORSED: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Masoud Pezeshkian as the country's president on Sunday, after he won an election this month by pledging a pragmatic foreign policy and easing repression at home.
VISITED: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected on Sunday flooded areas near the country's border with China after 5,000 people were affected, state media KCNA said on Monday.
26th July, 2024
ARRESTED: Mexican drug lord Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and the son of his former partner, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, in El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, the US Justice Department said.
FAREWELLING: Vietnam, Nguyen Phu Trong, 80, the leader of its ruling Communist Party who died a week earlier, in a two-day state funeral service.
IMPOSED: Australia, financial sanctions and travel bans on seven Israeli settlers and a youth group it said had been involved in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.
25th July, 2024
EXPLOSION: At a Jose Cuervo tequila plant in central Mexico, killing at least five company workers and forced the evacuation of tourists from the area in the spirit's hometown of Tequila, the head of the state's emergency services said on Tuesday.
REMOVED: Meta Platforms, about 63,000 accounts in Nigeria that attempted to engage in financial sexual extortion scams mostly aimed at adult men in the United States.
UPHELD: Ghana's Supreme Court, a six-decade-old law criminalising gay sex as the west African country awaits another court decision on whether to introduce even harsher penalties in a new bill.
24th July, 2024
ARRESTED: Jewish activists protesting against US military support for Israel inside a congressional building on Tuesday, a day before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to deliver a speech to Congress.
REPATRIATED: Chad, 157 of its citizens who had been detained in neighbouring Libya on Tuesday, working in partnership with the United Nations' International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Libyan state, its foreign ministry said in a statement.
RESIGNED: US Senator Bob Menendez in the aftermath of his conviction on corruption charges including bribery and acting as an agent for Egypt's government, bowing to pressure from fellow Democrats to give up the job.
23rd July, 2024
FOUND: At least 50 bodies after two landslides in southern Ethiopia, a local official said.
KILLED: At least five people, after a gunman entered a nursing home in north-western Croatia on Monday; the dead included the gunman's mother,while six others were injured, a government minister said.
ANNOUNCED: The US envoy to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, $US60 million in aid for Haiti during a visit a month after the first contingent of Kenyan police arrived as part of an international security mission aimed at tackling gang violence.
22nd July, 2024
DIED: Vietnam's ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong on Friday after holding the country's most powerful position for 13 years during which he oversaw fast economic growth, a years-long anti-graft crackdown and a pragmatic foreign policy. He was 80.
CLASHED: Police and protestors when violence erupted during a demonstration in the French grains port of La Rochelle over the use of reservoirs to supply large-scale agriculture; a police officer and five protesters were injured.
ANNOUNCED: Tunisian President Kais Saied, that he will run for another presidential term in 6th October elections.
19th July, 2024
INVITED: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host Volodymyr Zelenskiy at a meeting of his top ministers on Friday, a show of support for the Ukrainian leader who will welcome a new plan to try to disrupt Russia's attempts to evade shipping sanctions.
ELECTED: France's outgoing parliament president Yael Braun-Pivet, a second mandate on Thursday, in a vote that President Emmanuel Macron's camp hopes will boost their chances to run the government and defeat the left.
OPENED: The United States, an embassy in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, the latest US move in a long-running competition with China for influence in the Asia Pacific region.
18th July, 2024
APPEALED: US prosecutors, a federal judge's decision to throw out the criminal case brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith accusing Donald Trump of illegally holding on to classified documents following the end of his presidency.
CONFIRMED: Spanish authorities, that a body found in a remote area of the island of Tenerife a day earlier was that of missing British teenager Jay Slater and the injuries sustained were compatible with an accidental fall.
NOMINATED: Historical drama Shogun, the final instalment of Netflix's The Crown, and The Morning Show from Apple TV+, among others, for best drama, the top Emmy trophy.
17th July, 2024
CRASHED: A bus while travelling through a mountainous area in Peru, killing at least 23.
FOUND: The bodies of six foreign nationals in a room at an upmarket hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday; Thai police are looking for a seventh person in connection with the incident.
FLOODED: Parts of Toronto, Canada's financial centre, after torrential rain on Tuesday caused power outages, disrupted traffic and forced airlines to curtail service.
16th July, 2024
EXPLODED: A car bomb outside a restaurant in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Sunday night, killing five and injuring 20 as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, police said, blaming Islamist insurgents.
ARRESTED: The 71-year-old head of Colombia's soccer federation, Ramon Jeserun, and his 43-year-old son Ramon Jamil in Miami, accused of fighting security guards after the Copa America final that saw chaotic scenes around the stadium, Miami-Dade police confirmed on Monday.
INTENDING: Alberto Fujimori, 85, who governed Peru with an iron fist for a decade and fled the country amid corruption scandals and human rights violations, to run for president amid a cloud of uncertainty and fractured politics.
15th July, 2024
INJURED: Four people, one critically, when a suspected attacker rammed into a bus stop in central Israel on Sunday, Israeli authorities said.
CALLED: The United Nations mission in Libya (UNSMIL), for the immediate release of a journalist Ahmed Sanussi detained in Tripoli two days ago, adding all media workers should be kept safe.
DIED: American actor Shannen Doherty, best known for her role as high school student Brenda Walsh on hit 1990s television drama Beverly Hills, 90210, age 53 following a years-long battle with cancer.
12th July, 2024
PROTESTS: In Tirana, Albania, as opposition protesters pelted the government building and a mayor's office with petrol bombs late on Thursday, accusing Prime Minister Edi Rama of corruption and demanding his resignation.
CLAIMED: That five children were injured, two of them seriously, in a Ukrainian drone strike on a courtyard outside a multi-storey apartment block on a border town in southern Russia's Belgorod region, according to Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
FLOODED: Parts of north-west Delhi in India, after a breach in a canal that supplies water from a nearby state, and repair work was being carried out to minimise the impact, a senior local official said in a social media post.
11th July, 2024
DECLARED: Russia's prosecutor general on Wednesday declared independent media outlet the Moscow Times an "undesirable organisation", effectively banning it in the country.
EXTENDED: Pakistan, expired registration cards given to almost 1.5 million Afghans for a year, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said, after the UN refugee commissioner asked for a pause in the country's plan to repatriate refugees.
GUTTED: A factory in Derrimut on the outskirts of the Australian city of Melbourne on Wednesday, after an explosion ignited a massive fire that firefighters said would take days to fully put out.
10th July, 2024
FOUND: The bodies of at least seven migrants on an island off the western Turkish coastal town of Cesme on Tuesday, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding that search and rescue efforts continued for one missing person.
ORDERED: A court in Moscow, the arrest in absentia of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, accusing her of participating in an "extremist" group.
MET: Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed and Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan; Ahmed is the first foreign leader to visit him in his war capital Port Sudan since the start of the conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
9th July, 2024
VISITING: China, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban where he met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to discuss a potential Ukraine peace deal; the unexpected visit to Beijing comes days after his talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin angered some European Union leaders.
SET TO SIGN: Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei, a long-delayed pact with provincial governors in a bid to consolidate wider support for his reforms and bolster his government that has only a minority in Congress.
WITHDRAWN: The US military, its personnel from Niger's Air Base 101 near the airport in the capital Niamey on Sunday, ahead of its exit from a major drone base near the desert city of Agadez in the coming weeks.
8th July, 2024
COLLIDED: An oil truck with a minibus on Saturday in western Ukraine, killing 14 people, including a six-year-old child, and leaving a single survivor, Emergency Services said.
DIED: At least 10 people in a fire in a nursing home on Sunday morning in Treinta y Tres in eastern Uruguay, local authorities and media said, with the cause still unclear.
WON: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, a third term on Sunday, fending off challenges from dozens of candidates vying to unseat the ruling Liberal Democratic Party-backed incumbent, according to an exit poll from public broadcaster NHK.
5th July, 2024
FREED: Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has freed at least 10 political prisoners, rights campaigners said on Thursday, including veteran opposition figure Ryhor Kastusiou, 67, who is suffering from cancer.
JAILED: In Russia, US citizen Robert Romanov Woodland to 12-and-a-half years in a maximum security penal colony after finding him guilty of attempting to sell drugs, Woodland's lawyer and Moscow prosecutors said.
ARRESTED: Four pro Palestine protesters for climbing the roof of Australia's Parliament House on Thursday in a security breach condemned by lawmakers, on the same day a Labour Senator Fatima Payman quit over the government's stance on Palestine.
4th July, 2024
KILLED: A bomb blast killed five people including former senator Hidayatullah in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, police said; the Pakistani Taliban, or Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), denied involvement.
DENIED: The White House, that the United States had any involvement in a failed coup attempt in Bolivia last week.
NAMED: Canada, a woman - Lieutenant-General Jennie Carignan - as the country's top soldier for the first time ever on Wednesday, continuing a push by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to appointment women to the most senior jobs.
3rd July, 2024
FOUND: Guilty, former nurse Lucy Letby on Tuesday of trying to murder another newborn baby, adding to convictions last year that made her Britain's most prolific serial child killer of modern times.
INSTALLED: Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders saw ministers from his party sworn in for the first time ever on Tuesday, as the Netherlands' new right-wing government was installed almost a year after the previous administration resigned.
ORDERED: By an Ontario judge, pro-Palestinian protesters to leave their two-month-old encampment at Canada's largest university by Wednesday evening, granting the University of Toronto's injunction request in a ruling on Tuesday.
2nd July, 2024
SUING: More than 100 victims and relatives of victims of the 7th October attack by Hamas militants, Iran, Syria and North Korea, accusing the countries of providing Hamas support and demanding at least $US4 billion in damages.
MEDIATING: Turkey. talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year, Ankara and four officials familiar with the matter said.
UPHELD: Spain's Supreme Court, arrest warrants for Catalonia's former leader Carles Puigdemont, and others charged with embezzlement over the region's failed secession bid, as it ruled that a recent amnesty law does not apply to them.
1st July, 2024
MISSING: Two people after four people died in Switzerland on Sunday following violent thunderstorms and melting snow caused flooding and landslides in two southern cantons, and also affected parts of Italy.
KILLED: An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Saturday when he was shot dead in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a terrorist attack against Serbia.
FIRED: North Korea one short-range ballistic missile and another ballistic missile on Monday, South Korea's military said.
28th June, 2024
CRASHED: A train with a bus near Nove Zamky, 110 kilometres east of the capital Bratislava, in Slovakia, killing five people and injuring at least five others, emergency services said on Thursday.
PROVIDED: China, more than 2.3 billion yuan ($US316.4 million) in funds to help with rescue efforts, emergency supplies and planning as deadly floods and landslides caused by almost two weeks of torrential rain ravage several parts of the country.
INVESTIGATING: London's Metropolitan Police, "a small number of bets" made on the timing of next week's national election, with at least seven of its own police officers identified as having placed such wagers.
27th June, 2024
CONVICTED: Judges at the International Criminal Court, Malian Islamist Al Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz on Wednesday of war crimes and crimes against humanity for being a central figure in the Islamic police of Timbuktu during a 2012 rebel takeover.
OFFERED: The US, a $US10 million reward for information on Russian Amin Timovich Stigal, 22, charged with conspiring to hack and destroy computer systems and data in Ukraine and allied countries including the United States, the Justice Department said.
SENTENCED: Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced by a US judge on Wednesday to 45 years in prison for his conviction on drug and firearm offences.
26th June, 2024
RULED: Israel's Supreme Court, on Tuesday, that the state must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students into the military; the decree creates new political strains for embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
BANNED: Russia, access inside Russia to the broadcasts of 81 different media outlets from the European Union including Agence France-Presse and Politico in retaliation for a similar EU ban on several Russian media outlets.
LAUNCHED: Hungary's Sovereignty Protection Office, an investigation on Tuesday into the Hungarian branch of the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International (TI) and an online investigative outlet that focuses on corruption.
25th June, 2024
DIED: At least six people, including two people who jumped to their death, after a fire at an eight-storey former Russian electronics research institute outside Moscow on Monday, state-run TASS news agency reported.
ACCUSED: Somalia's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday accused Ethiopian troops of making illegal incursions across their shared border, leading to confrontations with local security forces.
SENTENCED: In a Miami court, Germine "Yonyon" Joly, a former leader of the notorious Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnapping ransoms and illegally trafficking US firearms to Haiti, the Justice Department said in a statement.
24th June, 2024
CLAIMED: Yemeni Houthi group, on Sunday, that its forces had attacked two ships in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
ARRIVED: In New York City on Sunday, the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, ahead of medical treatment for his knees and was greeted by hundreds of cheering and chanting supporters.
EVACUATED: Some 225 inmates from a maximum-security prison in Quebec, Canada, due to intensifying forest fires in the area, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) said on Sunday.
21st June, 2024
RESCUED: A luxury cruise ship, 68 migrants trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands in a fishing boat that had stalled in rough seas, Spanish authorities and the cruise operator said on Thursday.
TALKS: Between the United States and China on anti-narcotics cooperation on Thursday, following a breakthrough in bilateral work this week that saw them jointly go after a major drug-linked money laundering operation.
DIED: Donald Sutherland, one of Canada's most versatile and gifted actors, who charmed and enthralled audiences in movies such as M*A*S*H, Klute, Ordinary People and The Hunger Games, at the age of 88.
20th June, 2024
EXPLOSIONS: At a military ammunition depot in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Tuesday night, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 46, according to health minister Abdelmadjid Abderahim.
MET: A group of US lawmakers with Dalai Lama in India on Wednesday; the bipartisan group of seven, led by Republican Michael McCaul, said they would not allow China to influence the choice of his successor in comments expected to anger Beijing.
SPRAYED: Britain's Stonehenge by environmental protesters who sprayed paint on with orange marks covering some of the stones of the prehistoric megalithic structure on the eve of the summer solstice celebrations; two people have been arrested.
19th June, 2024
PASSED: Thailand's Senate, the final reading of a marriage equality law on Tuesday, paving the way for it to become the first country in South-East Asia to recognise same-sex couples.
REPORTED: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, a staunch ally of Kyiv and a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will succeed Jens Stoltenberg as NATO chief, according to Dutch national broadcaster NOS which said it came after Hungary and Slovakia backed him.
DIED: Paul Pressler, a leading figure of the Southern Baptist Convention who was accused of sexually abusing boys and young men and later settled a lawsuit over the allegations, at age 94.
18th June, 2024
DETAINED: Venezuelan opposition activists Gabriel Gonzalez, Javier Cisneros, Jeancarlos Rivas and Juan Iriarte, of the Popular Will and Vente Venezuela parties, according to the country's opposition coalition; the move comes as tensions rise ahead of a July presidential contest.
DIED: A 55-year-old American on the Greek island of Mathraki, the police said on Monday, the third tourist death in a week following a period of unusually hot weather.
ANNOUNCED: In Russia, that the espionage trial of detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who denies charges of collecting secrets for the US CIA, will be held behind closed doors, the trial court said on Monday.
17th June, 2024
BURNT: Almost 5,000 hectares in a wildfire burning north-west of Los Angeles on Sunday has forced the evacuation of over 1,000 people from a popular outdoor recreation area.
SHOT: German police, a man who threatened officers with a sledgehammer and an incendiary device on the sidelines of a Euro 2024 soccer fan parade in central Hamburg on Sunday, police said; the attacker was injured in the leg and was receiving medical care but his condition is not life-threatening.
INTENSIFYING: Authorities in Singapore, an effort to clean-up an oil spill off the island's south which has spread to other areas of the island's coast and is threatening a marine reserve, government agencies said.
14th June, 2024
REJECTED: The US Supreme Court, a bid by anti-abortion groups and doctors to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone.
ABLAZE: The Palau-flagged Verbena cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden after it was struck by missiles fired by Yemen's Houthi militants; a member of the crew was severely injured, US Central Command said.
CLOSED: In Athens, Greece, ancient tourist sites amid the first heatwave of the summer.
13th June, 2024
NAMED: Haiti's administration, new ministers on Tuesday, rounding out Prime Minister Garry Conille's cabinet, in a stark departure from the previous government as the country battles a deep humanitarian crisis fuelled by armed gangs.
VOTED: The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives, to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt for refusing to turn over audio recordings of a special counsel interview with Democratic President Joe Biden.
AWARE: The United States, of what it said were credible reports that Russia was listing abducted Ukrainian children on adoption websites, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, describing it as "despicable and appalling".
12th June, 2024
FIRE: At the Palace of Versailles on Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of visitors from one of France's busiest tourist sites before it was brought under control, a spokesperson said.
HUNGER STRIKES: Among inmates in at least 16 Venezuelan prisons to protest against incarceration conditions and delays in reviews of their judicial processes, two NGOs said in social media posts on Tuesday.
ATTACKED: Animal rights activists, the first official portrait of Britain's King Charles III since he became monarch, pasting a large image of the well-known animated character 'Wallace' over his face, in a protest about welfare on farms, at London's Philip Mould gallery.
11th June, 2024
KILLED: At least three people and one missing in northern Vietnam as a result of floods since Saturday night, the government said on Monday, and more heavy rains are expected over the coming days.
TO VISIT: Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korea and Vietnam in the coming weeks, Russia's Vedomosti newspaper reported on Monday, with an official telling Reuters the Vietnam visit has not yet been confirmed.
RESTORED: Full access for commercial maritime transit through the Port of Baltimore after the removal of 50,000 tons of debris from the 26th March collapse of the Key Bridge.
10th June, 2024
ATTACKED: A bus carrying Hindu pilgrims, killing at least nine people and injuring 33 when it plunged into a deep gorge in the Indian federal territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday; the bus crash was the result of a suspected militant attack, authorities said.
EXTENDED: A ban on Al Jazeera's operations in Israel for another 45 days by Israel's telecoms regulator on Sunday after the cabinet agreed its broadcasts posed a threat to security.
FOUND: The body of British TV presenter Michael Mosley, in a rocky area of Symi, days after he disappeared during a walk on the Greek island, local officials and police told Reuters.
7th June, 2024
DIED: At least nine Indian trekkers in the Himalayas after getting trapped during a blizzard, authorities said on Thursday, as rescue teams airlifted their bodies and five survivors to safety.
ASSASSINATED: Yolanda Sanchez, the mayor of Cotija in the Mexican state of Michoacan, by gunmen on Monday, shortly after the country elected its first-female President, following what was the bloodiest campaign in the country's history.
ANNOUNCED: Russia has approved a project to build the first high-speed passenger railway between its two biggest cities, Moscow and St Petersburg, to be funded with billions of dollars from the state budget.
6th June, 2024
CRASHED: A passenger train with a freight train in the Czech city of Pardubice on Wednesday evening, killing four people and injuring 26.
LAUNCHED: Boeing's new Starliner astronaut capsule, from Florida on Wednesday in a first test flight carrying a crew, after several delays caused by last-minute technical problems.
RESIGNED: Aharon Barak, a former president of Israel's Supreme Court, from his role as ad hoc judge on an International Court of Justice panel weighing a genocide allegation filed over the country's war in Gaza; the 87-year-old Barak cited unspecified personal and family reasons for his decision.
5th June, 2024
HIT: The South African coastal province of KwaZulu-Natal on Monday, a storm which killed at least 11 people and left a trail of destruction in its wake, local officials said.
RAIDED: More than 700 police, properties in three German states on Tuesday associated with two suspects in the far-right "Reichsbuerger" group that plotted to overthrow the government, the federal prosecutor's office said.
ASKED: Donald Trump, the judge who oversaw his criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star to lift a gag order on the case, in which the former US President was convicted last week.
4th June, 2024
DENIED: Former top US infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci that he suppressed the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in China, telling lawmakers he never influenced research on the origins of the virus.
STANDING: Nigel Farage, the politician who helped champion Britain's departure from the European Union, as a candidate in next month's election, he said on Monday.
SWORN IN: A jury, for the trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges, a historic criminal prosecution of a sitting president's son with the potential to influence the 2024 presidential election.
3rd June, 2024
WON: Serbia's ruling party in a vote for Belgrade city council and partial local elections across the country, marked by scuffles between opposition supporters and those of the populist President Aleksandar Vucic.
CALLED: Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze, for a review of relations with the United States after Washington ordered punitive measures over the passage of a law on "foreign agents", Russian news agencies reported.
DIED: Marian Robinson, mother of former US first lady Michelle Obama, who provided support and stability, especially during the eight years of Barack Obama's presidency, died on Friday at the age of 86.
31st May, 2024
DENOUNCED: Moldova's parliament, Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "genocide" in connection with Moscow's treatment of children in occupied areas, but the assembly's Moscow-friendly opposition parties refused to take part in the vote.
CLAIMED: North Korea, that it fired 18 short-range ballistic missiles during a drill as a demonstration of its willingness to launch a pre-emptive strike against South Korea's "gangsters' regime" if necessary to counter an attack, state media reported on Friday.
RELEASED: From hospital in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico after recovering from an assassination attempt; he was taken to his apartment in Bratislava on Thursday, Slovak media reported.
30th May, 2024
AGREED: China and Japan, to resume regular talks between their ruling parties for the first time in six years, officials from Japan's coalition government said on Wednesday.
FIRED: North Korea, what appeared to be about 10 short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korea's military said on Thursday.
DELAYED: A Pakistani court, a ruling on an appeal by former prime minister Imran Khan and his third wife against their conviction for unlawful marriage, their lawyer said.
29th May, 2024
MEETING: In Prague, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and leaders of some European Union allies in a Czech-led initiative to speed up ammunition deliveries to Ukraine; the meeting raised €1.6 billion with the first deliveries due to arrive in days, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said.
CHARGED: Maltese prosecutors, former Prime Minister Joseph Muscat with corruption over a 2015 public health contract as hundreds of supporters cheered for him outside a courthouse in Valletta.
ARRESTED: Hong Kong national security police, six people across the city on Tuesday under a new security law for alleged seditious intent, including pro-democracy barrister, Chow Hang-tung, who is already behind bars.
28th May, 2024
MEETING: Chinese Premier Li Qiang with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in Seoul for their first three-way talks in four years.
EXPLODED: A newly developed rocket engine after takeoff from North Korea, destroying a new military reconnaissance satellite.
IMPROVING: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's condition after an assassination attempt earlier this month is improving, the government and hospital said on Monday.
27th May, 2024
IMPACTED: Tornadoes and storms, the central US, killing at least 15 people, destroying homes and cutting power to thousands.
KILLED: Six newborns, in a fire at a baby care hospital in India's capital New Delhi, local authorities said on Sunday.
VISITING: Germany, French President Emmanuel Macron in a three-day state visit, the first French presidential state visit to Germany in 24 years.
DIED: Richard Sherman, a man behind famed Disney songs that delighted generations, such as It's a Small World (After all) and Mary Poppins' songs Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Chim Chim Cher-ee and Spoon full of Sugar on Saturday at the age of 95.
24th May, 2024
COLLAPSED: A two-storey restaurant building on the beach in Palma de Mallorca on Thursday, killing at least four people and injuring 16 people in the tourism hot spot in Spain's Balearic Islands.
LAUNCHED: China, what it calls "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts"; China has sent up heavily armed warplanes and staging mock attacks as state media denounced newly inaugurated President Lai Ching-te.
INJURED: Czech President Petr Pavel, in a motorcycle accident on a closed course, but not seriously, his office said on Thursday.
23rd May, 2024
RESIGNED: Chad's Prime Minister and opposition leader Succes Masra after interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby was confirmed as a winner of the 6th May presidential election.
INTENDS: Nikki Haley, former rival candidate for the Republican presidential election nomination, to vote for Donald Trump in the upcoming US presidential election, according to a speech she gave at the Hudson Institute thinktank in Washington on Wednesday.
PROBING: Los Angeles homicide detectives and federal agents, how Friends star Matthew Perry obtained the high dose of the powerful prescription drug ketamine that was found in his body and determined to have caused his death on 28th October last year, police said.
22nd May, 2024
KILLED: A passenger, who died of a suspected heart attack, after a Singapore Airlines flight hit severe turbulence on Tuesday, flinging passengers and crew around the cabin and injuring 30 more; the plane was forced to land in Bangkok.
REMOVED: Donald Trump, a video posted to his Truth Social account that included reference to a "unified Reich" after President Joe Biden's campaign and others criticised the use of language often associated with the Nazi regime.
RESCUED: In Nigeria, at least 22 people kidnapped by gunmen from the suburban Dawaki district of Abuja, the nation's capital, police and residents said on Tuesday.
21st May, 2024
GIVEN: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, permission to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a US court.
KILLED: By gunmen, a local mayor and two others in Cameroon's restive North West region as the nation observed its National Day on Monday, the regional Governor said; it's the second ambush in two weeks targeting government officials.
WON: Nepal's Prime Minister, Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a parliamentary vote of confidence on Monday amid protests by the opposition demanding a parliamentary probe into allegations that his home minister illegally took money from several companies before he entered politics.
20th May, 2024
CLAIMED: Islamic State, responsibility for an attack by gunmen on tourists in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan province; three Spanish tourists were killed and at least one Spaniard injured in the attack.
COLLIDED: A small motor boat with a cruise ship on the Danube River north of Budapest late on Saturday, killing two people; five others are missing.
CAPTURED: Uganda's military, a commander of an Islamic State-allied rebel group who is an expert in making improvised explosive devices, or bombs, that the group has used to carry out deadly attacks in the past, the army said on Sunday.
17th May, 2024
ANNOUNCED: In the US, Democratic President Joe Biden and Republican former President Donald Trump will hold a presidential debate on 27th June and another on 10th September ahead of the 5th November election.
VOTED: Parliament in Moldova, to hold a referendum in October on European Union membership, the cornerstone of President Maia Sandu's policies, alongside a presidential election.
SAID: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, that he received threats after the assassination attempt on his Slovakian counterpart, with a media outlet reporting his security protection would be strengthened.
16th May, 2024
VISITING: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing early on Thursday for talks with Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States.
AGREED: In the Netherlands, a deal to form what was set to be the most right-wing government in the country decades, Dutch nationalist Geert Wilders said on Wednesday; the news comes almost six months after a major election victory.
ADDING: European Union countries on Wednesday agreed in principle to add four Russian state media outlets to the EU's list of entities under sanctions, accusing them of propaganda, as the Kremlin vowed repercussions for Western journalists in Moscow.
15th May, 2024
MANHUNT: In France, after gunmen wearing balaclavas ambushed a prison van in the country's north on Tuesday to free a drug dealer known as "The Fly," killing two prison guards and severely wounding three.
ROSE: To 14, the death toll after a billboard collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai; more than 100 people were trapped after the billboard fell during a thunderstorm, crushing a fuel station, homes and cars.
HONOURED: Hollywood actor Meryl Streep as the Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off on Tuesday night.
14th May, 2024
COLLAPSED: A massive billboard during a rainstorm in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Monday, killing at least four people and injuring 61; more than 40 others are feared trapped.
FLED: Iran, Mohammad Rasoulof, a celebrated Iranian director whose latest film is competing in the Cannes Film Festival, after being sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging.
HANDED OVER: Britain's King Charles III, the title of Colonel-in-Chief of the Army Air Corps to his son Prince William at a ceremony on Monday.
13th May, 2024
DIED: Seven bus passengers with several others were injured after their bus careered off a bridge and into the Moika river in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Friday, the local department of the emergencies ministry said.
RELEASED: Former Colombian paramilitary leader Salvatore Mancuso, a former top commander of the paramilitary United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), conditionally, by a court in Colombia; the moves comes after he was sent back to from the United States in February after serving a drug trafficking sentence there.
WON: The Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Switzerland, with 24-year-old Swiss musician Nemo claiming the top spot after dominating the jury section of the vote to beat out the audience favourite, Croatia's Baby Lasagna.
10th May, 2024
SENTENCED: Fiji's former long-serving Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the country's director of public prosecutions said.
REPLACED: By Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Colonel Serhiy Lupanchuk, the commander of his special forces, on Thursday; it is the second time in half a year that Zelenskiy has changed the head of the unit which operates in Moscow-occupied territories.
REJECTED: US District Judge Kevin Castel, an appeal from Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former Honduras President convicted in March of drug and firearms offences, that he be granted a new trial.
9th May, 2024
RELISTING: Thailand, cannabis as a narcotic by year-end, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Tuesday, in a stunning U-turn just two years after becoming one of the first countries in Asia to decriminalise its recreational use.
RECOGNISED: As an independent organisation by Colombia's government, a front of Colombian leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN) which has broken ranks with the group's central command, becoming the guerrillas' first dissident faction.
TO STAND TRIAL: Former Spanish soccer federation chief Luis Rubiales, for his unsolicited kiss of national team player Jenni Hermoso after a High Court judge admitted the case, the court said on Wednesday.
8th May, 2024
APPEARED: Briefly, in a court in British Columbia, Canada, three men accused of murdering Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in a killing that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India.
TESTIFIED: Porn star Stormy Daniels at criminal trial in a Manhattan court on Tuesday, offered details about her 2006 encounter with Donald Trump, 77, and the hush money deal she reached to stay quiet about it ahead of the 2016 election.
ARRESTED: US Army Staff Sergeant Gordon Black, in Russia where he was charged him on suspicion of theft; the Pentagon said he broke Army rules by travelling to the Russian city of Vladivostok without authorisation and passing through China to get there.
7th May, 2024
LIFTING: Colombian leftist rebel group the National Liberation Army (ELN), its suspension on kidnapping due to the government failing to live up to agreements reached during peace talks.
EXECUTED: Eleven people were at a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya on Monday after they were convicted and sentenced to death of terrorism crimes, two security sources have told Reuters.
CANCELLED: Columbia University, its main graduation ceremony after weeks of pro-Palestinian protests roiled the Ivy League college's campus, but it will still hold smaller, school-based events.
6th May, 2024
VISITING: China's President Xi Jinping, France. against a backdrop of mounting trade disputes with the EU; Xi is due to meet French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Monday before he will head to Russia-friendly Serbia and Hungary.
REOPENED: Schools in Bangladesh on Sunday after a searing heatwave a week ago that suspended lessons as the country baked in temperatures that surged to well over 40 degrees Celsius.
BEGAN: Eurovision 2024 in the Swedish city of Malmo on Sunday when 37 contenders walked the "Turquoise Carpet" amid heightened security and calls for boycotts due to Israel's participation.
3rd May, 2024
AIRSTRIKE: The Syrian defence ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus injured eight Syrian military personnel late on Thursday in the latest such attack amid the war in Gaza.
ENTERED: Russian military personnel, an air base in Niger that is hosting US troops, a senior US defence official told Reuters, a move that follows a decision by Niger's junta to expel US forces from the country.
APPROVED: The Serbian parliament, a coalition government on Thursday, which newly elected Prime Minister Milos Vucevic described as a "government of continuity" that will lead the Balkan country through geopolitical challenges and tensions with Kosovo.
2nd May, 2024
ISSUED: The US on Wednesday, hundreds of fresh sanctions targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine in action that took aim at Moscow's circumvention of Western measures, including through China.
DETAINED: Warsaw authorities, a teenager after a historic synagogue in Poland's capital was hit by a bottle containing a flammable substance, police said, in an incident that prompted condemnation from Polish political leaders.
CLASHED: Police and demonstrators during traditional May Day protests in Paris on Wednesday; French police said they arrested 45 people and that 12 officers had been injured.
1st May, 2024
ATTACKED: By gunmen, a mosque in western Afghanistan on Monday night during prayer time, killing at least five people, a spokesperson for the provincial governor said.
CLAIMED: Yemen's Houthis, that they targeted the MSC Orion container ship in a drone attack in the Indian Ocean as part of their ongoing campaign against international shipping in solidarity with Palestinians against Israel's military actions in Gaza.
REVEALED: Colombia's President Gustavo Petro, that an inventory of military weapons showed over a million bullets, thousands of explosives, including grenades, and some missiles were missing from military bases, blaming corruption for the lost weapons.
30th April, 2024
KILLED: Three law enforcement officers and another four were shot and wounded in Charlotte, North Carolina, and a suspect was found dead, police said on Monday.
CONVICTED: A man of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece's deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to their response to the 2018 blaze, judicial sources said; ; 15 others were acquitted.
CRIMINALISED: Same-sex relationships in Iraq after parliament passed a law with a maximum 15-year prison sentence on Saturday.
29th April, 2024
KILLED: Five people after a tornado struck the city of Guangzhou in southern China with 33 injured, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing local authorities.
ON TRIAL: Nine men in Germany on Monday charged with high treason, attempted murder and plotting a violent coup d'etat aimed at installing an aristocrat as national leader and imposing martial law.
ANNOUNCED: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday she will be a candidate at June's European elections in a bid to boost support for her Brothers of Italy party, though she will not take up a seat if elected.
26th April, 2024
SIGNALLED: The US Supreme Court's conservative justices, support for US presidents having some level of protection from criminal charges for certain acts taken in office as it tackled Donald Trump's claim of immunity from prosecution for trying to undo his 2020 election loss.
OVERTURNED: Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction for sexual assault and rape, by New York's highest court, reopening the landmark case that fueled the #MeToo movement and highlighting the challenges of holding powerful men accountable.
ESCAPED: At least 118 inmates from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison service spokesperson said.
25th April, 2024
ANNOUNCED: Britain's opposition Labour Party, that it planned to renationalise the country's rail network within five years without paying compensation to private operators as it set out its plans to fix the troubled railway system.
CLOSED: Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes, an investigation into whether former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy in February, citing lack of evidence.
SENTENCED: By an Iranian revolutionary court, well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, to death for charges linked to Iran's 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on Wednesday.
24th April, 2024
SHAKEN: Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien, by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties.
TESTIFIED: On Tuesday, the first witness in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, that he used his supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that might have hurt Trump's 2016 presidential bid.
REJECTED: A Russian court, the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage.
23rd April, 2024
CAPTURED: In Ecuador, alleged leader of the Los Lobos gang - Fabricio Colon Pico Suarez - who escaped from prison in January, in Puerto Quito, Pichincha province, authorities said.
CONDUCTED: North Korea, its first nuclear counter-attack drills to simulate its "nuclear trigger" management system, guided by leader Kim Jong Un, as a clear warning to its enemies, state news agency KCNA said on Tuesday.
STEPPING BACK: Norway's 87-year-old King Harald, who will permanently reduce the number of official activities in which he takes part out of consideration for his age, the royal household said on Monday following the monarch's recent bout of illness.
22nd April, 2024
DETAINED: In Turkey, 36 people over suspected ties to Islamic State, in operations carried out across four provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Sunday.
VOWED: Social media platform X, that it would challenge in court an order from an Australian regulator demanding the company remove some posts related to the stabbing of a bishop in Sydney.
CHARGED: In California, three police officers with involuntary manslaughter for the 2021 death of Mario Gonzalez, 26, who was in their custody when he died on 19th April, 2021, reversing the outcome of a previous investigation that had cleared the officers.
19th April, 2024
OVERTURNED: A Maldives high court, former president Abdulla Yameen's 11-year jail term on Thursday and asked a lower court to restart criminal proceedings against him.
COMPLETED: The selection of 12 jurors in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial in New York on Thursday.
WON: Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem, the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip.
18th April, 2024
VOTING: The US House of Representatives, on aid for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific as soon as Saturday, Republican Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday, paving the way for its possible passage despite fierce objections from the right wing of his conference.
REJECTED: Britain's House of Lords, for a fourth time a piece of legislation needed to enable Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, in a vote that will delay, but not block, one of Sunak's flagship policies.
RULED: The European Court of Justice, that the name of late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar cannot be registered as an EU trade mark; it comes after his brother Roberto de Jesús Escobar Gaviria tried to lay a claim.
17th April, 2024
SELECTED: The first seven jurors to serve on Donald Trump's hush-money criminal trial, as the selection process continues to choose a panel of 12 members and six alternates who can be fair to the former US President.
ORDERED: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro, the closure of his government's embassy and two consulates in Ecuador in protest of Ecuador's detention of former Vice President Jorge Glas, the Venezuelan information ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
PROVIDED: The United States, assurances requested by the High Court in London which could finally pave the way for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be extradited from Britain.
16th April, 2024
OPENED: The FBI, a criminal probe into the collapse of a Baltimore bridge in March when a ship crashed into a bridge support, while local officials confirmed the recovery of a fourth body from the incident.
FOUND: Justice Michael Lee of Australia's Federal Court, that "on the balance of probabilities" a former government adviser, Bruce Lehrmann, raped his colleague Brittany Higgins in a Parliament House office; the finding came as the justice dismissed a defamation suit in a case that has gripped the nation.
INSISTING: Cuba, that the US ease sanctions and end special treatment of Cubans illegally entering its territory as high level migration talks are slated to begin Tuesday in Washington DC.
15th April, 2024
WELCOMED: The International Atomic Energy Agency, a cold shutdown of all six reactor units at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine with IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi saying it "enhances the overall safety of the facility".
RESCUED: In Turkey, 174 passengers from a cable car in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after it collided with a broken pole on Friday; one person died and 10 others were injured in the incident.
VISITING: China, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for three days with talks with the Chinese leadership in Beijing planned for Tuesday.
12th April, 2024
DIED: OJ Simpson, the American football star and actor 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, at the age of 76.
FILED: Mexico, a case against Ecuador at International Court of Justice, saying the armed raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito last week violated a UN treaty on diplomatic relations.
FOUND: By Italian rescuers, the body of two more workers who had been missing following an underground explosion at a hydroelectric plant near Bologna, the fire brigade said on Thursday, bringing the death toll from the accident to at least five.
11th April, 2024
KILLED: At least 13 religious pilgrims, with a further 30 injured when the truck they were riding in overturned on Wednesday in Hub City in south-western Pakistan, police said.
CONSIDERING: Australia, recognition of a Palestinian state, according to Foreign Minister Penny Wong; the move would mark a shift in policy as the international community looks for a two-state solution to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
ATTEMPTING: Russia, for the third time, to proceed with a test launch of its Angara-A5 space rocket after technical glitches prompted officials to abort missions at the very last minute for two days in a row.
10th April, 2024
KILLED: At least three people while four are missing after a fire and explosion underground at a hydroelectric power plant in in Bargi, close to Bologna in northern Italy, on Tuesday.
ANNOUNCED: By Colombia's Attorney General's office, that prosecutors will take ex-President Alvaro Uribe to trial in a witness tampering and fraud case.
DIED: Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, at the age of 94.
9th March, 2024
PARDONED: In Bahrain, 1,584 prisoners who were released on Monday, including some serving life sentences and others convicted on charges related to protests that occurred in 2011.
WON: The popular vote in Poland's local government elections, the Nationalist opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) final results showed on Monday.
FILED: US Special Counsel Jack Smith, a US Supreme Court brief on Monday urging the justices to reject former President Donald Trump's bid for immunity from prosecution on the principle that "no person is above the law".
8th April, 2024
RESCUED: The Tunisian coastguard, 1,867 migrants as well as retrieving the bodies of 13 migrants in a number of separate incidents in the Mediterranean, the national guard said on Sunday.
RESIGNED: Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir so she can for president, a ceremonial post that is mostly above the daily political fray.
APPOINTED: Former Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres as his special envoy for Myanmar; the move comes as the country faces renewed violence.
5th April, 2024
CHARGED: By South African prosecutors on Thursday, former National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula with corruption and money laundering, a day after she resigned following an inquiry into alleged graft during her time as defence minister.
EXPELLED: Somalia, Ethiopia's ambassador while also closing two Ethiopian consulates and recalling its own ambassador to Addis Ababa amid a dispute over Ethiopia's plan to build a naval base in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
DETAINED: In Russia, three more people suspected of involvement in last month's mass shooting at a concert hall near Moscow, the FSB security service was quoted as saying on Thursday.
4th April, 2024
RAGING: Rare storms with typhoon-like winds in China's southern Jiangxi province, killing at least seven people since the weekend, three of them blown out of their high-rise apartments in their sleep.
RESIGNED: South Africa's National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Wednesday that she was resigning from her position amid an investigation into alleged corruption during her tenure as defence minister.
ANNOUNCED: By Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, that business and community leader Sam Mostyn will be appointed the country's 28th governor-general.
3rd April, 2024
KILLED: Six primary-school students with 14 others were injured when a refrigerator truck veered into a group of children in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
CRASHED: A car carrying suspected migrants when it swerved off a mountain road into a ravine in southern Albania, killing eight people, police said.
CLAIMED: North Korea, that it successfully test-fired a new mid- to long-range solid-fuel, hypersonic missile, state media KCNA said on Wednesday.
2nd April, 2024
KILLED: Three people and another injured in an avalanche that rumbled down a mountainside on Monday afternoon at Riffelberg by the Swiss Alpine ski resort of Zermatt, police said.
APPOINTED: Democratic Republic of Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi, the country's first ever female prime minister, naming planning minister Judith Suminwa to the role.
GRANTED: A Pakistani court on Monday, former Prime Minister Imran Khan an appeal of his conviction for graft and suspended his 14-year jail sentence, his lawyer said, a relief for his embattled party which had won most seats in February's national polls.
28th March, 2024
CLAIMED: The lives of at least four people, wildfires in Mexico State, Mexico, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told reporters on Wednesday.
SENTENCED: By a Tunisian court, four people to death and two to life in prison on charges of participating in the murder of prominent political leader Chokri Belaid 11 years ago, which sparked mass protests against the then ruling Islamists.
DIED: Former US Senator and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee, Joe Lieberman, in New York City at the age of 82.
27th March, 2024
PROTESTING: Thousands of people in Budapest near parliament on Tuesday demanding the chief prosecutor and Prime Minister Viktor Orban resign after a former government insider accused a senior aide to Orban of trying interfere in a graft case.
EXTENDED: By a Russian court, the pre-trial detention of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter arrested almost a year ago on suspicion of espionage while on a reporting trip in the city of Yekaterinburg, by three months.
WON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, a temporary reprieve from extradition to US, after London's High Court said the United States must provide assurances he would not face the death penalty.
26th March, 2024
ACCUSED: China, by US and British officials, of conducting a cyber-espionage campaign that affected millions of people; China denies the claims.
WON: Donald Trump, a bid to pause his $US454 million civil fraud judgment if he posts a smaller $US175 million bond within 10 days, a move which would prevent officials from seizing his assets.
STEPPING DOWN: United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths, who recently pushed for more humanitarian access to Gaza, at the end of June for health reasons, a UN spokesperson said on Monday.
25th March, 2024
RAISED: France, its terror alert warning to its highest level following the shootings on Moscow, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said on Sunday after a meeting with senior security and defence officials with President Emmanuel Macron.
KILLED: Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and a staffer were found shot dead in a car early on Sunday, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking.
CLEARED: By Chad's Constitutional Council, 10 candidates for this year's long-awaited presidential election, including interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby and the country's recently-appointed Prime Minister.
22nd March, 2024
AGREED: European Union leaders, to invite Bosnia to open EU membership negotiations, while also stressing the Balkan country would have to undertake more reforms before the talks could begin.
SURVIVED: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, a no-confidence motion brought by the opposition Conservative Party over Canada's carbon tax, which looks set to be a major issue in an election likely to be held next year.
SET: Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, a presidential election for 7th September.
21st March, 2024
CAPSIZED: A South Korean-flagged chemical tanker off the coast of Yamaguchi prefecture in western Japan, with seven deaths confirmed, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday, citing the coastguard.
CHARGED: By Brazilian prosecutors, Jair Renan Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for alleged crimes including money laundering and falsifying documents for a bank loan, newspaper O Globo reported on Wednesday.
ASSESSING: Britain's data watchdog, a report that staff at the hospital where Kate, Princess of Wales, underwent abdominal surgery in January had attempted to access her private health records.
20th March, 2024
RAIDED: By South African investigators, the home of National Assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula on Tuesday as part of a corruption inquiry against her, the parliament said.
SEIZED: By Bolivian police, more than 7.2 tons of cocaine destined for Belgium with a street value of nearly half a billion US dollars, in what is the the second-largest drug bust in the country's history.
PAID TRIBUTE: Canadians, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at a funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who died on 29th February at the age of 84.
19th March, 2024
SENDING: Israel, an interagency team to Washington to discuss a potential military operation in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said.
ASKED: Donald Trump, a Georgia judge to allow him to appeal a ruling keeping Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis on the state's criminal case against the former US President over his attempts to overturn his election defeat.
SEEN: Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, looking fit and healthy in the first video taken of her since she underwent surgery two months ago in footage published by the Sun newspaper on its website on Monday.
18th March, 2024
CRASHED: A motorcycle, fuel truck and a bus on the Kandahar-Herat highway in Afghanistan, killing 21 people and injuring dozens on Sunday.
ANNOUNCED: Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, that he will run for a second re-election to secure another six-year term in voting planned for 28th July.
BRACED: Residents in parts of Australia's Northern Territory and Queensland state for tropical cyclone Megan, forecast to make landfall in coming days.
15th March, 2024
LAUNCHED: Taiwan, coast guard boats on Thursday to join a rescue mission at China's request after a fishing vessel capsized near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen islands, amid heightened tension in the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
RESUMING: The four Dutch political parties most likely to form a government, negotiations on a looser coalition after far-right leader Geert Wilders', who won the election four months ago, acknowledged he lacked the support to take the top job.
RULED OUT: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, that he would hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take place later this year.
14th March, 2023
KILLED: Seven people with 27 injured after a suspected gas leak caused a blast at a restaurant in China's northern province of Hebei that ripped facades from buildings, damaged cars and scattered debris.
DISMISSED: By Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee in the US state of Georgia, three criminal counts against the Donald Trump and three others against co-defendants, leaving 35 other criminal counts intact, including 10 against Trump.
ARRESTED: Spain's Civil Guard, 14 people for allegedly seeking to profit from the families of missing migrants from North Africa, promising them to find, identify and repatriate their bodies in return for money.
13th March, 2024
SURRENDERED: To police, a man who hijacked a bus and shot two people at a bus station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, before holding 17 people hostage for about three hours.
RECOMMENDED: The European Commission, opening European Union membership talks with Bosnia and Herzegovina, saying the Balkan country had made more progress on reforms over the past year than in the previous decade.
RECEIVED: Norway's King Harald, a pacemaker implant on Tuesday in a scheduled operation to help compensate for a low heart rate, the royal court said.
12th March, 2024
INJURED: At least 50 people, when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday.
FOUND: The bodies of five members of a party in an area near the Matterhorn mountain in Switzerland after freezing to death in "catastrophic" conditions; the search is continuing for one missing skier.
APPOINTED: Private banker Muhammad Aurangzeb, by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, as Pakistan's next finance minister.
11th March, 2024
SEARCHING: Police in Switzerland's Valais canton, for six people who went missing during a ski tour that departed from the Alpine town of Zermatt.
POSTPONED: President Emmanuel Macron's visit to Ukraine scheduled for early March for the third time; the French Presidency said it will take place in the coming weeks.
LIFTED: The Economic Community of Central African States, sanctions on Gabon on Saturday, six months after suspending its membership in response to a coup that ousted President Ali Bongo.
8th March, 2024
EVACUATED: India's navy, all 20 crew from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea on Thursday, after a Houthi attack killed three seafarers in the first civilian fatalities from the Yemeni group's campaign against the key shipping route.
VOTED: The European Union's leading political group, the centre-right European People's Party, to endorse European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen as their candidate to run the bloc's powerful executive.
CONFIRMED: Senegal's constitutional council, that a delayed presidential election would be held on 24th March, kick-starting a competition that remains wide open.
7th March, 2024
NAMED: Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, the country's representative to the Organization of American States, Gustavo Adrianzen, as the new Prime Minister on Wednesday, a day after former Prime Minister Alberto Otarola stepped down amid corruption accusations.
RAIDED: Azerbaijani police, the offices of Toplum TV, the interior ministry said, in the latest sign of a crackdown on independent media; a Toplum staffer told Reuters that 10 employees were taken away by police.
LAUNCHED: European soccer's governing body UEFA, Carbon Footprint Calculator which it says will be a groundbreaking tool in helping clubs reduce their environmental impact.
6th March, 2024
RESIGNED: Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov, on Tuesday, paving the way for his coalition partner, the centre-right GERB party, to lead the government as agreed following last year's elections.
SET: Venezuela, its presidential election for 28th July, the head of the national electoral council said on Tuesday.
BACK UP: Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.
5th March, 2023
ENSHRINED: France, the right to abortion in its constitution in a world first with MPs and senators overwhelmingly backed the move, by 780 votes to 72.
SCRAPPED: China, one of the most widely-followed events on its economic and policy calendar, the premier’s post-parliament news conference, a move seen by some observers as a sign of the country’s increasingly inward focus and centralised control.
RULED: Judges at the International Criminal Court, that prosecutors can bring a hearing on charges against fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony in his absence on 15th October.
4th March, 2024
TRANSFERRED: From Thailand, some 900 Chinese nationals who had been trapped in scam centres in a Myanmar border town back to China during the past week, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said on Sunday.
CONFIRMED: Chad's interim President Mahamat Idriss Deby, that he plans to run in this year's long-awaited presidential race.
STATED: Colombia's National Liberation Army (ELN) rebels, that they have freed all hostages under a deal made with the country's government to end kidnapping for ransom.
1st March, 2024
CONCLUDED: In the UK, a public inquiry into a British police officer whose rape and murder of a woman horrified the nation, that without a sweeping overhaul of failed vetting procedures, there was nothing to stop another similar case arising.
ROSE: The death toll from a bus accident near the southern Malian town of Kenieba to 40, Burkina Faso's government said in a statement on Thursday.
UNIFYING: Time across Kazkhakstan, with most of its regions moving their clocks back by one hour at midnight on Thursday, putting the whole country in the UTC+5 time zone.
29th February, 2024
ANNOUNCED: US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, plans to step down from his leadership role in November.
PASSED: Ghana's parliament, legislation on Wednesday that imposes a prison sentence of up to five years for the "wilful promotion, sponsorship, or support of LGBTQ+ activities".
DIED: Comedian Richard Lewis, who appeared for more than two decades alongside Larry David on the hit HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, at age 76, his publicist said on Wednesday.
28th February, 2024
KILLED: At least 31 people in Mali on Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge over a river near the western town of Kenieba, the transport ministry said.
WARNED: Thousands of residents in Australia's south-east, to evacuate on Wednesday due to an intense heatwave that authorities said could further spread a massive bushfire in Victoria state, which faces its worst conditions in four years.
ARRESTED: Daniela Klette, a member of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction militant group, was arrested in Berlin on Monday after decades on the run from armed robbery and attempted murder charges.
27th February, 2024
DECLARING: Peru, a health emergency in parts of the country in the midst of a hike seen in dengue fever cases, the health minister said on Monday.
NAMING: The US, former diplomat and US member of Congress Tom Perriello as new special envoy for Sudan on Monday as Washington seeks to bring an end to a war that has wrecked parts of the country and killed tens of thousands.
CLAIMING: Lockbit, the cybercrime gang that was knocked offline by a comprehensive international police operation earlier this month, that it has restored its servers and is back in business.
26th February, 2024
STORMED: A group of French farmers, into a major Paris farm fair on Saturday ahead of a planned visit by President Emmanuel Macron amid anger over costs, red tape and green regulations.
RELEASED: By the Taliban on Sunday, Herbert Fritz, an 84-year-old Austrian and far-right nationalist who was arrested in Afghanistan last May.
BURIED: Namibia's late President Hage Geingob, who died in hospital on 4th February, weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, at the Heroes Acre on Sunday with thousands of mourners, including 25 heads of state and former presidents in attendance.
23rd February, 2024
COLLIDED: A barge with a bridge over a waterway in China's Pearl River Delta near Guangzhou city, causing part of the bridge to break off, plunging vehicles into the water and killing five people, Chinese state media reported.
DISMANTLED: One of the biggest migrant smuggling networks across the English Channel with the arrest of 19 people in Germany, Europol said on Thursday following a large-scale operation conducted with German, French and Belgian police.
DIED: One Russian skier and six others rescued after being trapped in the snow following an avalanche near a Himalayan ski resort in Indian Kashmir on Thursday.
22nd February, 2024
SANCTIONED: The UK, six individuals in charge of the Arctic penal colony where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died last week.
UPHELD: Russia's Supreme Court, a ruling by electoral authorities barring anti-war candidate Boris Nadezhdin from next month's presidential election, leaving President Vladimir Putin without any significant challengers.
PAUSED: Their protest on Wednesday, Indian farmers demanding higher prices for their produce after the government made a new offer to resume talks; the move came hours after police fired tear gas and used water cannons to scatter thousands staging a march to Delhi.
21st February, 2024
RESIGNED: Democratic Republic of Congo's Prime Minister, Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, resigned on Tuesday, triggering the dissolution of his government, the presidency said in a statement.
OPENED: An appeal opposing the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US in a London court; US prosecutors are seeking to put Assange, 52, on trial on 18 counts relating to WikiLeaks' high-profile release of vast troves of confidential US military records and diplomatic cables.
ANNOUNCED: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's office, that the country will hold national and provincial elections on 29th May.
20th February, 2024
DISSOLVED: Guinea's government by the self-appointed military leaders who said they will appoint a new one.
ATTACKED: A Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier by a drone in the Red Sea, 60 nautical miles north of Djibouti; the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations agency said it sustained "superficial damage" after being hit; meanwhile the US confirmed a missile had struck another ship in the Gulf of Aden on 18th February.
FAILED: Lawmakers from Israel's religious-nationalist coalition, to gain enough votes in parliament to expel far-left colleague Ofer Cassif over his support for an International Court of Justice case accusing the country of genocide in Gaza.
19th February, 2024
CONDUCTED: The United States, five self-defence strikes in areas of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia, US Central Command said on Sunday.
SHAKEN: Mexican resort town of Acapulco by a magnitude 5.0 earthquake on Saturday afternoon, according to the country's national seismological service.
WON: A swag of awards including 'Best Film', 'Best Director', 'Best Actor' and 'Best Supporting Actor', the film Oppenheimer and its stars at the UK's BAFTA Film Awards.
16th February, 2024
SET: The date for first-ever criminal trial of a former US president as 25th March, with Donald Trump to defend himself against allegations of conducting a hush-money cover-up.
ROSE: The death toll from a landslide in the southern Philippines has risen to 92 as the search for missing people continues, officials said on Thursday.
LOST: Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, his bid to end his isolation in prison after he argued his human rights were being violated, a court ruled on Thursday.
15th February, 2024
SET: Ecuador's electoral court, 21st April for a referendum on measures to tighten security, fight organised crime and reform the constitution, it said on Wednesday.
FOUND: By a Paris appeals court, that ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy was guilty of illegal campaign financing over his failed 2012 re-election bid, confirming a previous ruling by a lower court; his lawyer said he would take his case to France's highest court.
ENGAGED: Australia Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to partner Jodie Haydon; he announced the engagement by posting a selfie photo of the couple with the caption "She said yes" on his social media platforms.
13th February, 2024
MET: US President Joe Biden and Jordan's King Abdullah at the Whitehouse where talks focused on issues including about the looming Israeli ground offensive in southern Gaza and the threat of a humanitarian calamity among Palestinian civilians.
SENT: West Africa's main economic and political bloc ECOWAS, a diplomatic mission to Senegal to discuss the political situation there following a delay in its presidential election.
DISMANTLED: Mexican armed forces, a clandestine meth "mega-laboratory" in northern Sonora state, marking what they said was the largest drug laboratory busted under the current administration.
9th February, 2024
FOUND: US Special Counsel Robert Hur, evidence that US President Joe Biden had "wilfully retained and disclosed classified materials" but that no criminal charges are warranted.
URGED: The West African regional bloc ECOWAS, junta-led Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali to reconsider their decision to quit the political and economic alliance.
APPROVED: The Georgian parliament, Irakli Kobakhidze as the South Caucasus country's new Prime Minister, after the ruling Georgian Dream bloc nominated him for the office last week.
8th February, 2024
MISSING: Dozens of people after a landslide in a southern Philippines province killed at least six people and injured 31, burying homes and two buses, disaster officials said on Wednesday.
GRANTED: Nicaragua, sylum to Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli, after the ex-leader, currently facing a lengthy prison sentence at home, requested the protection at Nicaragua's embassy in Panama City.
STATED: Bangladesh on Wednesday, that it will not allow any more Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to enter the country because supporting the huge numbers already there threatens its own security.
7th February, 2024
KILLED: Chilean ex-President Sebastian Pinera, who ran the country from 2010-2014 and 2018-2022, in a helicopter crash on Tuesday in the south of the country.
CONVICTED: Jennifer Crumbley, 45, of involuntary manslaughter over her son Ethan's 2021 mass shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan in which he killed four of his classmates; Crumbley becomes the first US parent convicted of manslaughter over a mass shooting carried out by their child.
VOTED: Ecuador's National Assembly, against a proposed increase to the value added tax, which President Daniel Noboa said would finance a security offensive against criminal gangs.
25th January, 2024
BROKE OUT: A fire in the basement of a street shop in the Chinese city of Xinyu in Jiangxi Province, killing 39 people and injured nine, local authorities said on Wednesday.
KILLED: More than 40 artisanal gold miners in south-west Mali last week after the shaft they were working in collapsed, Mali's mines ministry said on Wednesday.
SUSPENDED: Foreign Minister Alvaro Leyva, from his role for three months by Colombia's inspector general over possible irregularities in the tender process for producing passports.
22nd January, 2024
SUSPENDED: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, his campiagn to win the Republican nomination for this year's presidential election.
SURVIVED: Four people aboard a charter plane bound for Moscow which crashed in northern Afghanistanl Taliban officials said two people had died in the crash.
DEPORTED: From Argentina, the wife and children of fugitive Ecuadorean drug trafficker Jose Adolfo Macias to Ecuador on Friday, authorities said.
9th August, 2023
SHARED: Accidentally, the names and work locations of every member of staff at Northern Ireland’s police force on Tuesday.
SET: A federal judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn the 2020 election, a Friday court date for a hearing to help determine how evidence can be used and shared in the case.
MASSED: Hundreds of migrants alongside the US border in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez late on Monday, after false rumours that the US would allow entry to a mass group.
10th August, 2023
SIGNED: President Joe Biden, an executive order prohibiting some new US investment in China in sensitive technologies like computer chips and require government notification in other tech sectors.
KILLED: Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a campaign event on Wednesday, according to reports.
DISSOLVED: Pakistan’s Parliament by President Arif Alvi on Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s advice late Wednesday night, setting the stage for a national election.
11th August, 2023
PROPOSED: US prosecutors to begin former President Donald Trump’s trial on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss on 2nd January, 2024.
ATTACKED: By armed men, two villages in Nigeria’s north central state of Plateau with at least 20 killed and others injured.
EVACUATED: More than 4,000 people in southern Norway as rivers swelled above their banks to their highest levels in decades.