Hundreds of Mexican protesters angered by an unusual painting of revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata have stormed into one of the country’s leading museums to demand the artwork be destroyed. “Burn it, burn it!” chanted some 200 protesters, rallied by two […]
The Opera de Paris has lost €2.5 million (£2.1m) in a week due to a rolling strike over its generous pensions system that has led to almost all shows being cancelled as ballet stars in tutus took to the streets. […]
Attacks on bases hosting US-led coalition forces by Iranian-armed militias are heading towards a red line for the coalition, who would respond with such force that “no one would like the outcome,” a senior US official warned on Wednesday. Just […]
A race against time is underway to complete a controversial gas pipeline between Germany and Russia before US sanctions approved this week can be imposed against it. The world’s largest construction ship, the Pioneering Spirit, is currently laying the final […]
US President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed Time magazine’s naming of Greta Thunberg as 2019 Person of the Year, saying the Swedish teen climate activist should "chill" and go see a movie. "So ridiculous. Greta must work on her Anger […]
An international panel of experts hired to advise Hong Kong on the police response to huge pro-democracy protests announced on Wednesday they were quitting, saying the watchdog was not fit for purpose "in a society that values freedoms and rights". […]
One of the UK’s most prominent Rohingya activists says he fears for his young family’s safety after reports that ardent Myanmar government supporters have been looking for his home address ahead of the opening on Tuesday of a genocide trial in the […]
The American English dictionary Merriam-Webster has listed "they" as its word of the year after a 300 per cent rise in searches for the pronoun. The word is used as a singular pronoun by nonbinary people who do not identify […]
The South Pacific region of Bougainville voted overwhelmingly to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea, results showed on Wednesday. Bougainville Referendum Commission Chairman Bertie Ahern was cheered when he announced that more than 98 […]
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