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Taiwan’s parliament passes bill pushing pro-China changes
Thousands protested outside Taiwan’s parliament after reforms seen as reducing the president’s power were passed.Taiwan’s opposition-controlled legislatur
South Africa elections 2024: Key issues by the numbers
South Africa will go to the polls on May 29 for the most unpredictable election in the country’s 30 years of democratic rule. The governing African National C
Israeli spy chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes case:…
Report claims ex-Mossad chief tried to pressure Fatou Bensouda into abandoning a 2021 war crimes probe.The former chief of Mossad threatened the International C
UK’s Sunak eyes national service: What is it and which…
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to bring back mandatory national service if the governing Conservative Party wins the July 4 national election, prompt
EU pushing to boost military aid to Ukraine
The push by some EU states to raise support comes as others, such as Hungary, have worked to block military aid.European Union defence ministers are meeting in
Cape Town’s poor ‘neglected’ in South Africa’s only opposition-run province
Cape Town, South Africa – In the leafy, picturesque southern suburbs of Cape Town, Dee Lackay, 38, is making a new start after leaving Johannesburg for what h
Letter from ‘Kibbutz Israel’
In the wee hours of May 8, police officers in Washington, DC violently cleared the pro-Palestine encampment at George Washington University (GW) with the help o
Rafah residents face further danger as Israel hits city’s two…
Israeli air raids put Kuwaiti Hospital out of service and trap medical staff and patients inside Indonesian Field Hospital.The Gaza Strip’s collapsing health
EU states announce formal recognition of Palestinian state
Spanish PM calls Palestinian statehood ‘only route to peace’; Israel accuses Madrid of incitement to Jewish ‘genocide’.The establishment of a Palestinia
Trump promises crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests if elected
Trump tells donors that the student demonstrators are part of a ‘radical revolution’ and promises to defeat them.Former United States President Donald Trump
Photos: Submerged homes and heatwaves fuel Mexico climate angst
Waves wash over abandoned homes in a Mexican village slowly being swallowed by the sea; a symbol of the climate change effects being felt by the major fossil fu
‘Russia needs China more’: Are Putin and Xi in a…
After China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin pledged a “new era” of partnership, experts are questioning the depth of the relationship between t
