This Life: When the liars are in full-force
SAMANTHA ELLEY reflects on the pain and hurt liars can inflict in the digital age…
Sierra Leone charges ex-president’s guard, 11 others over failed coup
Freetown, Sierra Leone Reuters Sierra Leone authorities have charged 12 people with treason in connection with a failed coup in November, including a member of former President Ernest Bai Koroma’s security detail, the government said on Tuesday. Gunmen attacked a military barracks, a prison and other locations in Sierra Leone on 26th November, freeing about […]
Displaced Gazans scavenge wood for makeshift shelters in tent city
Rafah, Gaza Strip Reuters For the Maarouf family, living in Rafah’s tent city after fleeing their house in Gaza at the start of Israel’s deadly bombardment nearly three months ago, home is now the small campfire they sit around each night. Supplies of wood, scavenged from ruined buildings, were exhausted long ago in the devastated […]
Five Venezuelans freed out of 31 migrants kidnapped in Mexico
Mexico City, MexicoReuters Mexican security services have freed five Venezuelans kidnapped over the weekend by gunmen, local authorities said on Tuesday, as they searched for another 26 people snatched from a bus traveling to the border city of Matamoros. The bus was intercepted on Saturday on the Reynosa-Matamoros route in the northern state of Tamaulipas, […]
Russia pounds Ukraine’s two biggest cities in new wave of attacks
Kyiv, UkraineReuters Russia pounded Ukraine’s two biggest cities in a new wave of heavy air strikes on Tuesday, killing at least five civilians and prompting calls for the West to quickly provide more military assistance. The missile and drone attacks on the capital Kyiv and the north-eastern city of Kharkiv also wounded dozens of people, […]
Israeli drone kills Hamas deputy leader in Beirut – Lebanese, Palestinian sources
Beirut, Lebanon/Cairo, Egypt/GazaReuters Israel killed Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri in a drone strike in Lebanon’s capital Beirut on Tuesday, Lebanese and Palestinian security sources said, as its tanks and warplanes pummelled Gaza in further “high-intensity” warfare against the Islamist militant group in the enclave. Arouri, 57, was the first senior Hamas political leader to […]
Five dead after JAL airliner crashes into quake aid plane at Tokyo airport
Tokyo, JapanReuters All 379 people aboard a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane escaped the burning airliner after a collision with a Coast Guard aircraft at Tokyo’s Haneda airport that killed five of six crew on the smaller aircraft on Tuesday. Live footage on public broadcaster NHK showed the JAL Airbus A350 airliner burst into flames as […]
Japan quake toll rises to 55 with many trapped under possibly thousands of homes
Updated: 7:50am, 3rd January, 2024 (AEDT)Wajima, Japan Reuters A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on New Year’s Day killed at least 55 people, with rescue teams struggling in freezing temperatures on Tuesday to reach coastal areas where many are feared trapped under possibly thousands of destroyed homes. In Suzu, a town of just over 5,000 […]
Gunmen open fire on villagers in India’s Manipur, three killed
Guwahati, India Reuters At least three people were killed and five seriously injured when gunmen in camouflage fatigues opened fire on villagers in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, officials said on Tuesday, as sporadic violence continued in the region. At least 180 people have died since fierce fighting broke out between members of the […]
Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai pleads not guilty in national security trial
Hong KongReuters Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to all charges against him in a high-profile national security trial that could see the city’s leading critic of the Chinese Communist Party jailed for life. Media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, looks on as he leaves the Court of […]