Eritrea’s president in rare public comments has dismissed as “a fantasy” allegations that his country’s forces carried out rape, looting and other abuses in the war in neighboring Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Italy’s right poised to win regional vote after national triumph
By Crispian Balmer
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s two most important regions hold elections this weekend that will provide Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing allies with their first ballot-box test since winning power last year.
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China says U.S. ‘overreacted’ by shooting down balloon
China on Thursday said U.S. accusations that a downed Chinese balloon was part of an extensive surveillance program amount to ‘information warfare against China.’ China’s defence minister refused to take a phone call from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin…
China has conducted spy balloon program for years, Pentagon says
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. has briefed dozens of countries on the program, which officials said has been active over five continents.
Newspaper and magazine publisher DC Thomson announces 300 redundancies
Around half of the jobs expected to go will reportedly be at the Aceville publisher in Colchester, Essex
American man in Saudi prison given longer sentence as ‘middle finger’ to Biden
An American man imprisoned in Saudi Arabia over tweets critical of the government there has handed a longer jail sentence.
Police ‘to impound’ Andrew Tate’s £2.8m Bugatti used to troll Greta Thunberg
Tate has repeatedly boasted off his expensive car collection, some of which have already been seized by authorities in Romania
I worked on Magaluf’s wildest bar crawl and can lift lid on what REALLY happens behind the scenes… it was utter chaos
IT may have scrubbed up in recent years, but Magaluf was once the party capital of Europe, with thousands of Brits searching for sun, sea and sex.
The coastal town in Majorca, Spain, was flooded every summer by randy teenagers, who were easy targets…
Earthquake survivors in Turkey, Syria face bitter cold as deaths top 17,000
Rescuers continued their race to pull more people alive from the rubble, with the window closing to find trapped survivors after a massive earthquake hit Turkey and Syria.
Dog breeder is fatally shot at planned sale of French bulldog puppy
Instead of encountering a buyer, Lonnie Ray was attacked by three or four people and shot at least three times, a South Carolina sheriff said. They also took the puppy.