AFP : President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to hold nuclear weapons drills involving the navy and troops based near Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Monday. Putin has upped his nuclear rhetoric since the Ukraine conflict began, warning in his address to the nation in February there was a “real” risk of nuclear war. “During the exercise, a set of measures will be taken to practise the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the defence ministry...
Deutsche Welle : Russian news agencies on Saturday reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had been added to a Kremlin...
Reuters : Donald Trump’s pledge to fight what he calls “anti-white feeling” in the US will likely embolden allies who seek to dismantle government and corporate programs created to battle racism and boost diversity in American life. Some high-profile supporters of the former president, now the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, say policies for safeguarding people of colour in classrooms, workplaces and charities should be repurposed to protect the rights of white people as well. “I think there is a definite...
BSS : Coastal regions of Kenya and Tanzania were buffeted by heavy rains and high winds from a tropical cyclone...
BSS : France has for the first time been invited to commemorate the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which led...
BBC : A Palestinian doctor has died in an Israeli prison after more than four months in detention, Palestinian prisoner...
BBC : Labour’s Sadiq Khan will be re-elected as Mayor of London for a third term, according to BBC’s polling...
Aljazeera : Landslides and flooding triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province have killed at least 15 people...
AFP, Islamabad : Pakistan experienced its “wettest April since 1961”, receiving more than twice as much rain as usual for the month, the country’s weather agency said in a report. April rainfall was recorded at 59.3 millimetres, “excessively above” the normal average of 22.5 millimetres, Pakistan’s metrology department said late Friday in its monthly climate report. There were at least 144 deaths in thunderstorms and house collapses due to heavy rains in what the report said was the “wettest April...
AFP : One person was killed and six injured overnight in a gritty northern Paris suburb in a shooting likely linked to drug trafficking, prosecutors and the mayor said Saturday. The attack in a parking lot near a cultural centre at Sevran, which lies between central Paris and the city’s main airport Charles de Gaulle, took place around 11:45 pm (2145 GMT) Friday, prosecutors said. Upon arriving on the scene, police found four injured people strewn on the ground. One...
LONDON : Former US President Donald Trump has developed a detailed plan on resolving the Ukrainian conflict peacefully, but will...
CNN : Panama, the Central American nation at the crossroads of international trade and migration, will elect a new president...