World

Russia plans higher taxes for rich, companies as cost of…

Posted by May 29, 2024

New tax thresholds and hike in corporation tax are expected to raise about 2.6 trillion rubles ($29bn) a year.Russia has announced plans to raise taxes on busin

Read More

Melinda French Gates says she’s donating $1bn in support of…

Posted by May 29, 2024

Philanthropist says it is ‘frustrating’ that some believe it is not the right time to discus gender equality.Melinda French Gates has announced that she wil

Read More

Haiti transitional council names Conille prime minister amid gang violence

Posted by May 29, 2024

Garry Conille, who briefly served in the role from 2011 to 2012, has since worked as a regional director for UNICEF.A nine-member council in charge of overseein

Read More

The art project aiming to keep Australia’s Indigenous people out…

Posted by May 29, 2024

Melbourne, Australia – More Indigenous people are behind bars in Australia than ever before, making them the world’s most imprisoned people. Despite making

Read More

Closing arguments wrap up in Trump’s hush-money trial: Here’s what…

Posted by May 29, 2024

Lawyers in New York have presented sweeping, hours-long closing arguments in the unprecedented criminal trial against former United States President Donald Trum

Read More

Career exhibition empowers persons with intellectual disabilities, autism

Posted by May 28, 2024

HE the Minister of Social Development and Family (MSDF) Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser al-Misnad has inaugurated the first edition of the career day for persons wit

Read More

Former spy chief Dick Schoof proposed as Dutch PM

Posted by May 28, 2024

Schoof, 67, is currently the top official at the justice ministry and a former head of the Dutch intelligence service.Dutch right-wing coalition parties have no

Read More

Former FTX executive Salame sentenced to 7.5 years in US…

Posted by May 28, 2024

Ryan Salame pled guilty to tens of millions of dollars in unlawful campaign donations to boost causes supported by his boss.Ryan Salame, the former co-CEO of F

Read More

After massacre in Gaza’s Rafah, advocates ask: Where is Biden’s…

Posted by May 28, 2024

Washington, DC – In early May, seven months into Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, United States President Joe Biden drew a rare red line for the top US all

Read More

US opens up banking to private Cuban businesses to boost…

Posted by May 28, 2024

The measures allow independent entrepreneurs to open and access US bank accounts online to support their businesses.The United States has lifted some financial

Read More

Climate crisis threatens 41 million across Caribbean and Latin America:…

Posted by May 28, 2024

Nearly 1,450 hospitals across region are also in low-lying coastal areas vulnerable to extreme weather, UN report finds.Tens of millions of people living in coa

Read More

Photos: Palestinians flee Tal as-Sultan area in Rafah amid Israeli…

Posted by May 28, 2024

Hundreds of people braved roads in Rafah in southern Gaza on Tuesday as they fled Israel’s expanding ground assault, with increased shelling, tanks in the cit

Read More