In a significant victory for Palestinian voices, journalist and filmmaker Bisan Owda’s powerful news story “It’s Bisan From Gaza and I’m Still Alive” has won an Emmy Award. The short film, which offers a moving firsthand account of Owda’s family fleeing bombardment in Gaza City, secured the Outstanding Hard News feature story award in the […]
Ailing health prevented 88-year-old former boxer Iwao Hakamada from being in court to learn the outcome of his retrial, which was granted a decade ago after a long campaign by supporters. But his 91-year-old sister Hideko, who often speaks for him, bowed deeply to the Shizuoka District Court judge who declared Hakamada innocent. Hakamada spent […]
Legislators in the House of Commons voted 211-120 to defeat a motion by the official opposition Conservative Party declaring a lack of confidence in Trudeau’s minority Liberal government. Trudeau, whose popularity has slumped amid unhappiness over rising prices and a housing crisis, became more politically vulnerable this month when the smaller New Democratic Party tore […]
The agency also sees the prospect of North Korea potentially carrying out a seventh nuclear test after the U.S. presidential election on November 5, Lee Seong-Kwon, who sits on the parliamentary intelligence committee, said. In July, a report by the Federation of American Scientists concluded that Pyongyang may have produced enough fissile material to build […]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres set the tone in his opening speech, acknowledging that global inequalities are mirrored in international institutions. He noted that the UN Security Council was designed by the victors of the Second World War when much of Africa was still under colonial rule. Guterres emphasized the need for African representation on the […]
Warning sirens sounded in Israel’s economic capital Tel Aviv as a single surface-to-surface missile was intercepted by air defence systems after it was detected crossing from Lebanon, the Israeli military said. There were no reports of damage or casualties and the military said there was no change to civil defence instructions for central Israel. Warning […]
The ministers said that stopping the dangerous escalation underway in the region… begins by halting Israel’s aggression in Gaza, in a joint statement issued after a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The Israeli military said on Wednesday that for the “first time” a missile fired by Hezbollah reached […]
Speaking at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), he said that overcoming significant challenges and achieving development is not new for the Maldives. With a population of approximately 500,000, the country aims to build a “digital economy” that leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance housing, healthcare, and climate resilience. President Dr Mohamed […]
The way the Turkish President highlighted the issue touched the hearts of all those listening to him in the Assembly hall,” he told reporters after the meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the Assembly’s 79th session. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and cooperation in different fields. Both leaders agreed to increase […]
“We are ready to engage with participants of the 2015 nuclear deal. If the deal’s commitments are implemented fully and in good faith, dialogue on other issues can follow,” Pezeshkian said. Then-President Donald Trump abandoned the 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and six world powers in 2018 and reimposed tough sanctions on Iran. Efforts to […]
