Nigeria boat accident kills 50 people, several missing
Maiduguri, Nigeria Reuters At least 50 people drowned and several others were missing after an overloaded boat capsized in Nigeria’s north central region, residents and state officials said on Tuesday. The wooden boat was ferrying people across a river to Kwara state after a wedding ceremony in neighbouring Niger state when it capsized on Monday […]
Russian missile attack kills 11 in Ukrainian President’s hometown
Kryvyi Rih, UkraineReuters Eleven civilians were killed in a Russian missile attack that struck an apartment building and warehouses in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, local officials said. Emergency services said four were killed in the apartment block and seven at the warehouses, where officials said a private company stored […]
Trump pleads not guilty in federal documents case
Updated: 12:30pm (AEST)Miami, Florida, USReuters Former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. Trump’s plea, entered before US Magistrate Judge Jonathan Goodman in a federal court in Miami, sets up […]
Seven die as cyclone barrels towards western India, Pakistan
Ahmedabad/Mumbai, India Reuters Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected to make landfall. Classified as a very severe cyclonic storm, Biparjoy is expected to land around Thursday evening between […]
Residents in for months-long displacement as Philippine volcano spews lava, gases
Manila, Philippines Reuters At least 14,000 people evacuated from around a volcano spewing lava and noxious gases in the central Philippines may remain displaced from their homes for months, authorities warned on Tuesday. Incandescent lava was seen flowing slowly from the mouth of the 2,462-metre Mayon volcano, which was placed on a high alert level […]
Vatican court sentences eco-activists to prison for damaging art
Vatican CityRNS Two environmental activists have been found guilty of vandalism for gluing themselves to a statue in the Vatican Museums. In the conclusion of the much-talked-about trial on Monday, Vatican judges sentenced the activists to nine months in prison and charged them a €1,500 fine with a suspended sentence of five years. Guido Viero, 61, […]
Draining of Ukraine’s Kakhovka reservoir offers a reminder of past and present wars
Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine Reuters The draining of one of Europe’s largest reservoirs as a result of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam has revealed submerged military objects that offer a reminder of wars past and present on Ukrainian soil. On a drizzly morning near the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, a team of divers and underwater demining […]
United States planning to rejoin UNESCO organisation – announcement
Paris, FranceReuters The United States plans to rejoin the UNESCO organisation from this July onwards, UNESCO announced on Monday. The United States withdrew from the UN cultural agency in December, 2018, under President Donald Trump over accusations of anti-Israel bias and mismanagement. The UNESCO logo is seen during the opening of the 39th session of […]
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy vows action on air raid shelters
Reuters President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed unhappiness on Monday at results of an inspection he ordered into all Ukrainian shelters after three people were killed when they were unable to access one during a Russian air strike in Kyiv. A woman comforts her daughter inside a shelter during an air raid alert, amid Russia’s attack on […]
Gender biases not improved over past decade, UN says
Reuters Gender inequality has remained stagnant for a decade, according to research by the United Nations released on Monday, as cultural biases and pressures continue to hinder women’s empowerment and leave the world unlikely to meet the UN’s goal of gender parity by 2030. Despite a surge in women’s rights groups and social movements like Time’s Up and […]