(Reuters) CEUTA, Spain/ FNIDEQ, Morocco, July 31 – Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily. The Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta said […]
BBC: Fifa president Gianni Infantino says he has scrapped the controversial plan to sell off stakes in the governing body’s competitions to private investors following widespread opposition. Infantino said it had become clear the project had “created divisions” that are “no longer in the interest” of its original objective. The Swiss official added: “As a […]
BBC: At least nine people were killed in Russian ballistic missile strikes on Ukraine, local officials said early on Saturday. At least another 23 were injured in the attack on the capital Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s State Emergency Service. Moscow has escalated deadly ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital recently, prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to […]
BBC: A senior Israeli official has said troops will not pull back from their current positions in Gaza without the “genuine disarmament” of Palestinian armed group Hamas in the territory. Hamas meanwhile said handing over its heavy weapons was contingent on Israel ending “all forms of aggression” and withdrawing its forces from Gaza. It comes […]
(Reuters) MOSCOW, July 31 – Russia’s second-largest e-commerce company, Ozon , said on Friday that it had been forced to evacuate its warehouse in the town of Zelenodolsk in the Tatarstan region due to a Ukrainian drone alert. The evacuation took just a few minutes to complete and there were no casualties. The logistics centre […]
BBC: Hundreds of people in central Greece are being evacuated by sea after the coastal town they were in became hemmed in by one of the many wildfires raging across the country. Around 500 people, mostly tourists, were left stranded after the fire broke out near Agios Vasileios in Viotia on Friday morning and rapidly […]
Al Jazeera: Human Rights Watch has accused Russia’s government-controlled paramilitaries of killing eight civilians, including three children, in an air strike in central Mali. In a report published on Friday, the rights watchdog alleged that the attacks by Africa Corps took place on June 15 in the village of Kyrnia, in Mali’s Mopti region. “The junta has […]
Al Jazeera: At least 34 migrants trying to reach the Spanish territory of Ceuta have died after breaching the border from Morocco, as tens of thousands of people entered the enclave in the past 24 hours. Juan Jesus Vivas, the regional president of the North African Spanish enclave, confirmed the death toll to reporters on Friday, without giving details […]
BBC: India’s upper house of parliament has passed a bill to increase penalties for leaking examination papers, after youth-led protests called for sweeping reforms and forced the country’s education minister to resign. The legislation passed on Thursday would double the maximum prison sentence for those involved in paper leaks to 10 years and raise the maximum fine […]
BBC: Spain is sending troops to bolster security in its North African enclave of Ceuta after thousands of migrants swam from Morocco into the territory on Thursday. At least 15 people drowned while trying to reach Ceuta. Local officials had appealed to Madrid for help after a recent rise in attempted crossings, but there were […]
