The funeral mass for South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is set to take place on Saturday morning in Cape Town. Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who helped end the racist regime in South Africa, died last Sunday aged 90. His death prompted an outpouring of grief among […]
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PARIS: France takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union today, affording President Emmanuel Macron the chance to pose as the EU’s de facto leader in the run-up to national elections in April. The 44-year-old has never made any secret of his ambitions to be the motor for further […]
TAIPEI: Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen marked the new year with a message for China: military conflict is not the answer. “We must remind the Beijing authorities to not misjudge the situation and to prevent the internal expansion of ‘military adventurism’,” Tsai said today in her New Year’s speech broadcast live […]
SEOUL: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un capped off his 10th year in power with a speech that made more mention of tractor factories and school uniforms than nuclear weapons or the United States, according to summaries by state media today. North Korea’s main goals for 2022 will be jump starting […]
WILMINGTON: President Joe Biden said yesterday he told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that a move on Ukraine will draw sanctions and an increased US presence in Europe, where tensions are high after Russia’s military buildup at the border. The US and Russian leaders exchanged warnings over Ukraine in a […]
WASHINGTON: Former Republican President Donald Trump’s recent comments touting Covid-19 vaccines as safe and a major achievement of his presidency have roiled extreme anti-vaxers, which include many of his ardent supporters. After months of a relatively low profile on vaccines and no photos of him getting inoculated, Trump on Dec. […]
BEIJING: China’s foreign minister said today the United States will “face an unbearable price” over its actions towards the self-ruled island of Taiwan, in Beijing’s latest threat over the flashpoint island. Tensions between China and the US have soared in recent years over issues including human rights, trade and technological […]
Opening in late 1986, Brokdorf was the first nuclear reactor in the world to go into operation after the Chernobyl disaster. An icy wind is blowing across the Brokdorf nuclear power plant that stands between damp meadows and a dike covered in a thin layer of snow. A small group […]
Returned to China in 1997, Hong Kong has endured an overhaul of its political system and a crackdown on political dissent. As the days of 2021 dwindled, so did any remaining traces of democracy in Hong Kong. On Wednesday, a vocal pro-democracy media outlet – one of the last openly […]
Around 80% of NATO’s missions in the past year were in response to flights by Russian military aircraft flying too close to members’ airspace, the alliance has said. NATO fighter jets were scrambled hundreds of times this year to intercept aircraft, most of them Russian warplanes, the military alliance said […]