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Ahead of President Joe Biden’s high-stakes news conference, his first since last month’s dismal debate performance with Donald Trump, Britain’s new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has denied that Biden is senile or too old to be president of the United States. Starmer insisted the president was “on really good form” during their hour-long bilateral meeting…
Israel pushed on with a major military offensive in war-ravaged Gaza City on Tuesday that the UN said has once again displaced tens of thousands of Palestinians. Troops, tanks and aircraft were fighting in Gaza’s biggest urban area on the eve of new truce talks in Qatar that aim to free the hostages and halt…
In the democratic capital of West Africa, Dakar, a roundtable on democratic values in Senegal took place between July 1 and 2, 2024. Representatives from civil society and civic associations funded by the American government and USAID, COSCE, and NGO 3D attended the event. According to the Senegalese website, Senego, the roundtable was organised by…
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, did not wait for the Labour Party’s victory to be officially confirmed before conceding defeat on Friday morning. In a televised broadcast from Downing Street, Mr Sunak said he has taken full responsibility for the loss and is promising an orderly transfer of power. “The British…
Russia on Tuesday sentenced a 19-year-old man to 12 years in prison for allegedly donating money to Kyiv’s forces. Separately, it doubled a documentary maker’s sentence for denouncing the Ukraine offensive. Moscow has for more than two years led an unprecedented crackdown on dissent, comparable to Soviet levels of repression. In the southern city of…
Swedish citizen Johan Floderus (C) is greeted by his relatives upon his arrival at Arlanda airport near Stockholm, on June 15, 2024. – Swedish EU official Johan Floderus, who has been held in an Iranian prison for more than two years, was released as part of a deal with Tehran, the Swedish government announced on…
Malawi’s Vice President Saulos Chilima was killed in a plane crash, the nation’s president said on Tuesday, after searchers located the wreckage of the aircraft in a foggy forest. The military plane carrying Chilima, 51, and nine others disappeared on Monday, after it failed to land in the northern city of Mzuzu due to bad…
2 hours ago Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are rising significantly in Europe as climate change creates warmer conditions that help invasive mosquitos spread, the EU’s health agency warned on Tuesday. In 2023, 130 locally acquired cases of dengue were reported in the region comprising the European Union (EU) plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and…
Cases of dengue and other mosquito-borne diseases are rising significantly in Europe as climate change creates warmer conditions that help invasive mosquitos spread, the EU’s health agency warned on Tuesday. In 2023, 130 locally acquired cases of dengue were reported in the region comprising the European Union (EU) plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (EEA), compared…
An elephant in Thailand has delivered a rare set of twins in a dramatic birth that left a carer injured after he tried to rescue one of the newborns. The 36-year-old Asian elephant named Jamjuree gave birth to an 80-kilogramme (176-pound) male at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal north of Bangkok on Friday…