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The way seems clear for Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, pictured November 2018, to head to a UN conference in Marrakesh to endorse the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, but he risks losing his parliamentary majority
World
24.07.2024
Belgian PM wins backing for UN migration pact
Lev Ponomaryov (L), seen in 2007 with other opposition leaders, said after his December 2018 arrest, that Russia "is gradually inching towards mass political repressions," he said, referring to the peak of Stalin-era purges
World
24.07.2024
Russia jails elderly activist for protest call
The UK parliament's select media committee published more than 200 pages of internal Facebook emails it has acquired while probing how the giant was being used to manipulate major election results
World
24.07.2024
Facebook accused of giving access to users' data
A meeting on disinformation at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels on December 5, 2018
World
24.07.2024
EU steps up fake news fight ahead of elections
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The murder of a US tourist has dealt a fresh blow to Costa Rica's image as a tourist destination
World 24.07.2024
US-Venezuelan tourist killed in Costa Rica: police
Anti-corruption campaigner and journalist Rafael Marques met Angolan President Joao Lourenco to discuss the issue of graft
World 24.07.2024
Angola president meets anti-corruption campaigner
Uganda announced a plan last month to roll out ebola vaccinations for frontline health workers, like these pictured in western Uganda in August
World 24.07.2024
Uganda vaccinates health workers against Ebola, fearing DRC spread
Michael Flynn's guilty plea was the first secured by the investigation into alleged collusion between Donald Trump's election campaign and Russia
World 24.07.2024
Flynn testimony in Russia probe raises stakes for Trump
Rights groups have expressed increasing concern about the obstruction of their work helping migrants in distress during the perilous Mediterranean crossing
World 24.07.2024
Activists call for criminal probe into migrant deaths off Libya
The emissions from Chinese-backed coal-fired power plants could cripple global efforts to rein in climate change, analysts warn
World 24.07.2024
China's unbridled export of coal power imperils climate goals
A former Spanish colony, phosphate-rich Western Sahara sits on the western edge of the vast eponymous desert, stretching around 1,000 kilometres along the fish-abundant Atlantic coastline
World 24.07.2024
Renewed push for peace as Western Sahara talks open in Geneva
Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie expressed concern about the death toll among Afghan security forces at a confirming hearing in Washington Tuesday
World 24.07.2024
NATO concerned by high Afghan security losses
A group of Iranians who stole the fishing boat L'Epervier were caught trying to sail it across the Channel
World 24.07.2024
Perilous change of tack as migrants take sea route to Britain
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