Mexico to hold referendum on accountability of ex-presidents A referendum in Mexico on Sunday is going to cost Mexico about $25 million, few like the poorly written question on the ballot, and the vote is being held in the coronavirus pandemic
YouTube bans Sky News Australia for a week over alleged Covid misinformation YouTube has suspended one of the largest media companies in Australia, local Sky News, from posting on its platform for allegedly breaching Covid-19 misinformation policies.
Sky News Australia temporarily suspended from YouTube ‘Disturbing attack on ability to think freely,’ says broadcaster
Builder sends digger into apartment block ‘because he was owed money’ Man is reportedly subcontractor for building’s developer
100-year-old former concentration camp guard ‘to go on trial in Germany’ Man is said to have worked at Sachsenhausen for three years
Why are so many migrants coming to one of Europe’s smallest countries? Blame Belarus, officials say. Lithuania normally sees about 70 migrants cross its border with Belarus in a year. More than 2,600 crossed in July.
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Myanmar military leader says elections will be in 2 years Six months after seizing power from the elected government, Myanmar’s military leader has repeated his pledge to hold fresh elections in two years and cooperate with Southeast Asian nations on finding a political solution for his country
Earthquake rattles Greek islands close to Turkey The Athens-based Institute of Geodynamics says a 5.4-magnitude tremor occurred early Sunday in the Aegean Sea, near the small Greek island of Nisyros, west of Rhodes
Riots Shatter Veneer of Coexistence in Israel’s Mixed Towns Israel’s Jewish and Palestinian communities looked past each other until violence and bloodshed forced a reckoning.Seventy-three years after Israel’s birth in the 1948 Independence War, in which hundreds of thousands of Arabs fled or were driven out at gunpoint, Jews and Arabs in Israel live side by side but largely blind to each others’ lives.
Majority of Turkey wildfires under control, official says More than 100 wildfires have been brought under control in Turkey, according to officials
‘We no longer have luxury of half-measures’: French hospital union chief calls for mandatory vaccination of everyone A French hospital union boss has said a health pass will not be enough to curb another wave of Covid-19, and urged the government to make vaccination compulsory for everyone.
Outgoing Iran president says government not always truthful Iran’s outgoing president has acknowledged his nation at times “did not tell part of the truth” to its people during his eight-year tenure
Good Samaritans use water pumps and buckets to keep stranded killer whale alive A passing ship and bystanders on land all put an effort in to help the whale stay wet until the tide came in and it could float away from the Alaskan coast
Laurel Hubbard: The reluctant history-maker at the centre of sport's transgender debate Weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in a different gender category to that which they were born at an Olympics.
New Zealand apologises for raids on Pacific people Jacinda Ardern says Pacific Islander communities still "suffer and carry the scars" from the policy.
Outgoing Iran president says government not always truthful Iran’s outgoing president has acknowledged his nation at times “did not tell part of the truth” to its people during his eight-year tenure
Iran denies launching oil tanker attack that killed 2 Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has denied Tehran carried out a drone attack on an oil tanker off Oman that killed two people, even as Israel alleges the Islamic Republic launched the assault
Top Myanmar General Says Military Rule Will Continue Into 2023 Six months after seizing power, the junta’s leader on Sunday extended a state of emergency for two more years. Protesters said they would persevere.A rally on Thursday in Yangon, Myanmar, against military rule.
5 women, 14 children repatriated from Syria back to Albania Five Albanian women and 14 children who had been related to Albanian nationals who joined Islamic extremist groups fighting in Syria and Iraq have returned to their homeland from Syria’s Al Hol camp
Iran denies launching oil tanker attack that killed 2 Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has denied Tehran carried out a drone attack on an oil tanker off Oman that killed two people, even as Israel alleges the Islamic Republic launched the assault
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman denies that Tehran launched drone attack on oil tanker off Oman that killed 2 Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman denies that Tehran launched drone attack on oil tanker off Oman that killed 2
Brexit: Australia trade deal may lead to deal with South America where intensive farming destroys rainforests Exclusive: ‘Any policy allowing imports that do not match UK animal-welfare policies simply props up an industry the public has firmly rejected,’ says critic
Boris Johnson's wife pregnant with second child months after miscarriage Carrie Johnson, the wife of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced she is pregnant with the couple’s second child just months after she suffered a miscarriage, according to reports.
In Vietnam, Undersea Robots Aid the Pentagon’s Search for War Dead Advances in technology helped investigators recover the remains of an Air Force navigator whose plane went down off the Vietnamese coast in 1967.Preparing to launch one of three robotic vehicles to survey the seafloor off Vietnam in February 2020.
Burkina Faso sees more child soldiers as jihadi attacks rise Awoken by gunshots in the middle of the night, Fatima Amadou was shocked by what she saw among the attackers: children