The United Nations Security Council on Monday authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port-au-Prince. “More than just a simple vote, this is in fact an expression of solidarity with a population in distress,” Haiti’s Foreign…
Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday will vote to select a new speaker after the previous one quit following an uproar for unknowingly inviting a former Nazi soldier to a special parliamentary session in honor of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Former speaker Anthony Rota, a member of the governing Liberal party, resigned last week. He took…
Left-leaning candidate Luisa González and centrist Daniel Noboa face off ahead of the October 15 run-off election. Quito, Ecuador – The final two Ecuadorian presidential candidates, Luisa González and Daniel Noboa, have faced each other in the last debate before the run-off election on October 15. Sunday night’s debate gave both candidates a platform to address…
Amazon River’s pink, grey dolphins are a threatened species and among the few freshwater dolphins found in the world. The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and heat. The…
The school planned for Kharkiv will allow students to study in a classroom ‘even during missile threats’, the mayor says. Ukraine plans to build its first fully underground school in the eastern city of Kharkiv to shield students from Russian bomb and missile attacks, the city’s mayor said. Parts of Kharkiv City, which is located less than 35km…
Here is the situation on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Fighting At least two people were killed and eight injured in Russian shelling of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said the attacks hit residential areas, shops, medical facilities and other civilian infrastructure. Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the city will build Ukraine’s first fully…
From new laws on espionage and public security to fewer foreign films and arguments on clothing, is China turning away from the world? When 29-year-old accountant Cai Yutong pulled out her iPhone 13 at a Starbucks on the outskirts of Shanghai, her colleague sitting opposite her moved closer. “You know, they are launching a new…
Hardline Florida congressman says speaker no longer has his support after pushing through stopgap spending measure at the weekend. A hard right lawmaker in the United States has launched a bid to remove House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy in the most serious showdown yet within the Republican party as it battles to contain firebrand…
India threatens to revoke the diplomatic immunity of diplomats told to leave if they remain after October 10. India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, according to The Financial Times newspaper. Ties between India and Canada have become strained over Canadian suspicion that Indian government agents had a role in the…
Syrian state news agency reported that two were injured and material damage was sustained in an air raid by Israeli forces. Two Syrian soldiers have been injured following an Israeli air attack on military posts in Syria’s eastern Deir Az Zor region, state media reported, citing a military source. Syria’s state news agency SANA said the latest…
