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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
Cluster munition use reported after Ukraine’s Russian-held Luhansk attacked
Information on casualties is being clarified after air attacks cause fire in the occupied eastern Ukrainian city.The Russian-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukr
Papuans head to Indonesian court to protect forests from palm…
Indigenous activists from the Indonesian province of West Papua have held traditional ceremonies outside the country’s Supreme Court in Jakarta calling for th
Papua New Guinea evacuating landslide villages as hopes for survivors…
Hopes are fading that an estimated 2,000 people buried by a landslide in Papua New Guinea’s Enga province will be found alive, a United Nations official has s
