Category: Global News
Vietnam jails environmental activist for three years over tax fraud
Rights groups condemn sentence against prominent campaigner on issues of climate change and environmental degradation.
Japanese scientists find microplastics are present in clouds
Japanese scientists have found between 6.7 and 13.9 pieces of microplastic in each litre of cloud water tested.
Key takeaways from the second Republican US presidential debate
Candidates for 2024 nomination attack Trump for skipping the event as they talk immigration and the economy.
Calls for boycott after alleged assault mars Lebanon film festival
LIFF members deny the attack, and lawyer representing festival says a case will be filed against the accuser.
Russia says Ukraine’s Western allies assisted in Black Sea Fleet HQ attack
Moscow says US, UK had role in planning and executing attack by providing spy plane, satellite intelligence to Kyiv.
On Lampedusa, the lucky few who made it across the sea live in misery
Overcrowding, lack of food and police violence plague the people who fled to Italy praying for a better life.
How deadly is the air you breathe?
It kills 7 million people a year. New research shows it also raises antibiotic resistance and is linked to cancer risks
China issues warning for military exercises in parts of South China Sea
Notice to shipping comes amid rising tension between Beijing and Manila over disputed Scarborough Shoal.
Czech gov’t plans to buy 24 F-35 stealth fighters in $6.5bn defence spend
Czech PM Petr Fiala says purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets tells military allies 'that they can count on us'.
Burkina Faso’s military rulers say coup attempt foiled, plotters arrested
Military prosecutor says 4 arrested, 2 on run following reports that a coup attempt was thwarted by security services.