Sri Lankans on Sunday elected a former defence chief who led a brutal crackdown on Tamil Tiger separatists as president, raising fear among the country’s religious and ethnic minorities. Gotabhya Rajapaksa, 70, who served as defence secretary during his brother […]
The rings of gunshots pierce the air as Tatiana Moyano López sits outside her home in central Santiago, reading the letters her father wrote to her from prison. “After so many months I saw the moon and the first stars […]
China’s People’s Liberation Army troops appeared on the streets of Hong Kong yesterday as part of a clean-up mission that risked a backlash from pro-democracy protesters who have brought the city to a standstill in recent months. The appearance of […]
Bolivia’s political crisis turned deadly after security forces opened fire on supporters of Evo Morales in a central town, killing at least five people, injuring dozens and threatening the interim government’s efforts to restore stability following the resignation of the […]
A 70-year-old man became the second to die in a week of unrest in Hong Kong yesterday, after he was reportedly hit with a brick during a clash between pro-democracy protesters and government supporters. The unnamed man was using a […]
Taylor Swift said she has been stopped from performing her own songs at an awards ceremony by the "tyrannical control" of her former record label executives. The singer-songwriter said she had planned to play a medley of her hits at […]
The death toll for wildfires raging across Australia’s most populous state has risen to four as authorities warned Thursday of worsening weather conditions to come. A body was found late Wednesday in a scorched forest near the town of Kempsey in […]
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Click:cnc cutting machine Four people were left dead in Iran following clashes between riot police and protesters in several Iranian cities after the government raised the price of petrol by up to 300 per cent. The deaths occurred in separate […]
China on Friday condemned an incident in which Hong Kong’s justice secretary was jostled by masked demonstrators in London, and accused Britain of fuelling pro-democracy unrest. Teresa Cheng, Hong Kong’s deeply unpopular Secretary for Justice, fell while being surrounded by a crowd of jeering […]