Putin ally Lukashenko has ruled Belarus with an iron fist for more than than three decades and is now on seventh term. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signalled he does not intend to seek another term in office, while rejecting speculation that he is lining up his son as successor. The self-professed “last and only…
Rescuers in Chile are racing to find the last worker trapped in the world’s largest underground copper mine after an earthquake on Thursday. The state-owned Codelco company said on Sunday that five workers were now known to have died since the collapse of its El Teniente mine, about 70km (43 miles) south-east of the capital…
U.S. President Donald Trump listens during a multilateral lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House July 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images News | Getty Images President Donald Trump, facing growing pressure to publicly release Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, said on Thursday…
Top Trump officials toured Alcatraz Island off California today for a visit aimed at measuring the feasibility of reverting the national park to a prison, a demand Trump made on Truth Social back in May. Fox News accompanied Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum as they toured the federal facility, which closed…
Samira Hussain South Asia correspondent BBC For days, Imtiyaz Ali had been anxiously awaiting the findings of a preliminary report into last month’s Air India crash that killed his brother, sister-in-law, and their two young children. When the report was finally released early on Saturday in India, he read it carefully – only to be…
Nigeria and Botswana will meet for the second time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) when they clash in their second Group B match at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday. Their previous WAFCON encounter was also in the second group match of the 2022 edition. Nigeria won 2-0…
Zambia will face Senegal in their second Group A fixture at the TotalEnergies CAF Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, Morocco 2024 at the El Bachir Stadium in Mohammedia on Wednesday (kick-off: 17:00 local time / 16:00 GMT). The two nations previously met in the quarterfinals of the 2022 edition, where the match ended 1-1 after…
More than one-third of the people in the tiny Pacific nation of Tuvalu, which scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, have applied for a landmark climate visa to migrate to Australia, according to official figures. Tuvalu’s ambassador to the United Nations, Tapugao Falefou, told Reuters on Sunday he was “startled by the huge…
Nairobi — On Friday, countries gathered in Uruguay to agree on the creation of a new global science-policy panel aimed at enhancing the management of chemicals, waste, and pollution. This initiative marks a major step in the global effort to safeguard both people and the planet. The newly established panel is designed to address a…
