BBC: About 15,000 escaped crabs have been recovered after the truck they were travelling in tipped into a field in Inishowen, County Donegal. The crustaceans, which were worth about €60,000 (£52,000) and bound for shops and restaurants in Portugal, spilled from aluminium containers after the crash near Carrickmaquigley in Redcastle at about 07:30 local time […]
Reuters: DUBAI, Jan 13 – About 2,000 people including security personnel have been killed in protests in Iran, an Iranian official said on Tuesday, the first time authorities have acknowledged the high death toll from an intense crackdown on two weeks of nationwide unrest. The Iranian official, speaking to Reuters, said that people he called terrorists […]
BBC: Central banks across the world have joined together to declare that they stand in “full solidarity” with the Federal Reserve’s chair after the US launched a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell. The heads of the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada are among 11 senior bankers who have […]
BBC: Niger has revoked the licences of dozens of transport operators and drivers for refusing to deliver fuel to neighbouring Mali where they face possible attacks by jihadists. An al-Qaeda affiliate imposed a fuel blockade on Mali in September and began attacking petrol tankers on major highways. The landlocked country depends on fuel imports and […]
(Reuters) SYDNEY, Jan 13 – One of Australia’s top writers’ festivals was cancelled on Tuesday, after 180 authors boycotted the event and its director resigned saying she could not be party to silencing a Palestinian author and warned moves to ban protests and slogans after the Bondi Beach mass shooting threatened free speech. Louise Adler, […]
BBC: India’s southern state of Tamil Nadu has a long, peculiar political tradition: here, cinema doesn’t merely entertain, it also governs. From extremely successful political stints of MG Ramachandran – popularly known as MGR – and Jayalalithaa to the more ambivalent experiments of Rajnikanth, Kamal Haasan, Khushbu and Vijayakanth, the state has repeatedly seen cinema icons turn into […]
(Reuters) CAIRO, Jan 12 – An Israeli-backed Palestinian militia said on Monday it had killed a senior Hamas police officer in the southern Gaza Strip, an incident which Hamas blamed on “Israeli collaborators.” A statement from the Hamas-run interior ministry said gunmen opened fire from a passing car, killing Mahmoud Al-Astal, head of the criminal […]
(Reuters) BANGKOK, Jan 12 – Thailand’s progressive opposition People’s Party and its leader are most favoured among voters for next month’s general election, two surveys showed, underlining the stiff challenge facing Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul‘s bid to stay in power. Thailand’s February 8 election could usher in a new round of turmoil in Thailand, and will be a showdown […]
(Reuters) Jan 12 – Norway said on Monday it was providing 340 million euros ($397 million) in emergency funding to support Ukraine’s energy sector and help the government maintain critical services, as part of the Nordic country’s wider aid to the war-torn nation in 2026. Russian attacks have long targeted Ukraine’s energy network and have become more […]
BBC: The fatal shooting of a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis has sparked protests across the US and placed increased scrutiny on the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). ICE has made thousands of arrests since Trump returned to the White House, often in public settings. Those actions have increasingly brought its agents into communities […]