Finland’s leading party has nominated a 34-year-old prime minister, making her the world’s youngest premier in a women-led coalition cabinet after a political shake-up. Sanna Marin, 34 from the dominant Social Democrats, who was nominated on Sunday, will have a finance minister two years […]
Vanessa Sales’s face crumples as soon as she starts speaking about her only child. Agatha, aged eight, was shot dead by police in Rio de Janeiro in September as she sat next to her grandmother on a bus. Click Here: […]
Nearly 1,000 tourists are stranded in the small New Zealand town of Franz Josef after stormy weekend weather triggered landslides and flooding along the town’s main road. While there were no reported injuries, authorities said that access to the town is […]
The FBI was justified in launching an investigation into ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia before the 2016 election, a US watchdog has found, undermining the US president’s claim it was all a "witch hunt". There is no evidence […]
Hundreds of Syrian Kurds have returned home from Iraqi refugee camps over recent weeks despite fears for their safety, amid complaints that thousands have been ‘imprisoned’ with little access to food, healthcare and work. Over the past month, around 100 […]
Hundreds of thousands of black-clad, masked protesters from all walks of life took part in one of the largest mass rallies of Hong Kong’s six-month-long pro-democracy movement on Sunday, in a show of continued defiance against Chinese rule. Demonstrators expressed their anger […]
Two Canadians detained in China after the arrest of a Chinese Huawei executive in Canada are marking one year in detention, with supporters accusing Beijing of using them as diplomatic hostages. Michael Kovrig, a human rights NGO worker and ex-diplomat, […]
A British caver who last year helped in the rescue of a Thai football team remains “a hero” and should have won his libel case against the “publicity-seeking” Elon Musk, his friends and fellow rescuers have said. Vernon Unsworth sought £145m in […]
An Iranian held in the US and an American held in Iran have been freed, the two sides said on Saturday, in an apparent prisoner swap at a time of heightened tensions. Tehran announced the release of Iranian scientist Massoud […]
Thousands of protesters marched through the streets of Valletta on Sunday as pressure mounted on Malta’s prime minister to resign immediately over the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia. At least 5,000 demonstrators marched from parliament to the […]