Elias Rodriguez, 31, shouted “Free Palestine” as he was taken away by police after the shooting late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, prosecutors said in a court document. “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” he told the officers. The Chicago man made an initial court appearance Thursday after being charged […]
Houthi Military Spokesperson Yahya Saree said the group launched a ballistic missile towards Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport and two drones towards the Tel Aviv area. Undeterred by Israeli strikes on Yemen, the Houthis said they would continue to fire at Israel even though they have agreed to a ceasefire with the United States to halt […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification effective for the 2025-2026 school year, the department said in a statement. Noem accused the university of “fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party.” Harvard said the move by the Trump administration, which affects […]
In the first four months of the year, beef exports fell nearly 20% year-on-year to around 255,000 tons, according to government agency Senasa. Shipments to price-sensitive top buyer China plunged to 137,000 tons from 203,000 tons a year earlier. Chinese importers – which gobbled up two-thirds of Argentina’s beef exports last year – are paying […]
European farmers fear the move will increase prices as over a quarter of the 27-nation bloc’s imports of nitrogen-based fertilisers come from Russia, with more entering from Moscow’s ally Belarus. The European Parliament voted 411-100 for a bill that will enact duties in July and gradually increase them to a point where they would make […]
Net migration – an estimate of the number of people migrating to Britain minus those leaving – dropped to 431,000 from 860,000 in 2023, the Office for National Statistics said. The data will offer some relief to Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who earlier in May promised to reduce migration significantly over the next four […]
General Waker-Uz-Zaman was reported to have told officers on Wednesday that elections should be held by December this year — if not earlier, according to Bangladeshi newspapers. The South Asian nation of around 170 million people has been in political turmoil since the student-led revolt that ousted then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina in August, with parties […]
Police have pulled two bodies from floodwaters on the Mid North Coast, a river-braided region of rugged hills and fertile valleys about 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Sydney. Authorities launched a major search and rescue mission as people clambered atop cars, houses and highway bridges to escape the tide of muddy water. The storms […]
The suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, negotiated by the World Bank in 1960, was among a slew of measures announced by India against Pakistan last month after falsely accusing Pakistan of the April 22 attack in Pahalgam. New Delhi had claimed the attack was backed by Pakistan – an accusation Islamabad denied – and […]
The strong quake struck 82 kilometres (51 miles) northeast of Crete’s capital Heraklion, at a depth of 68 kilometres, the USGS said. The region popular with tourists has been rattled by multiple tremors in recent months, prompting schools in Santorini and neighbouring islands to close temporarily. Thousands of earthquakes, mainly of low magnitude, were recorded […]
