Posts by Amelia Frost
Bangladesh Court To Deliver Verdict Against Hasina On November 13
[ad_1] The verdict in the crimes against humanity case against ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina will be delivered on November 13, the attorney general said, as the trial ended on Thursday. Hasina, 78, has defied court orders to return from India to face charges of ordering a deadly crackdown in a failed attempt to…
Read MoreRubio Heads To Israel As US Seeks To Firm Up Gaza Truce
[ad_1] Top US diplomat Marco Rubio warned that Israel’s moves towards annexing the occupied West Bank risked undermining a fragile US-brokered truce in Gaza, as he headed to Israel on Thursday. Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday advanced two bills paving the way for West Bank annexation, days after President Donald Trump secured a ceasefire deal aimed…
Read MoreStung By High Costs, Dutch Board ‘Shopbus’ To Cheaper Germany
[ad_1] Marleen Naipal scoops up another pot of face cream, glances at the price tag, and tips it into her bulging basket of cosmetic products. But this is no ordinary shopping splurge: Naipal has taken a 400-kilometre round-trip in a coach to Germany from the Netherlands, where the high cost of living is poised to…
Read MoreOil And Gas Majors Stick To Their Guns On Climate Advertising
[ad_1] Oil and gas companies have increasingly come under legal attack over their role in contributing to global warming, yet unlike other industries that face tougher regulations they have not abandoned their climate marketing claims. It’s a strategy rolled out since the early 2000s in the wake of the Kyoto Protocol on cutting greenhouse gas…
Read MoreKing Charles To Hold Historic Prayer With Pope Leo
[ad_1] King Charles III will on Thursday meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican and make history as the first head of the Church of England to pray publicly with the pontiff for five centuries. The 76-year-old monarch, who is supreme governor of the Church of England, arrived in Rome on Wednesday evening with his…
Read MoreTigers In Trouble As Malaysian Big Cat Numbers Dwindle
[ad_1] For two years, Malaysian conservationists tracked a tiger named “Bulan” as she raised four cubs. Then a fatal traffic accident made her another statistic in the country’s dwindling population. Malaysia’s national animal is in trouble. Poaching, food loss and diminishing habitat have slashed the population from 3,000 in the 1950s to less than 150…
Read MoreCrude Spikes As Trump Threatens Russian Giants, Stocks Turn Lower
[ad_1] Crude prices spiked more than two percent Thursday after Donald Trump said he would hit two Russian oil companies with hefty sanctions, while talk that the White House was planning curbs on software exports to China added to gloom on markets. Both main oil contracts jumped almost three percent — having climbed more than…
Read MoreFlush With Cash, US Immigration Agency Expands Weaponry And Surveillance
[ad_1] The agency overseeing Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown is spending tens of millions of dollars on guns, ammunition, body armor and surveillance technology, according to procurement records reviewed by AFP. Spending across the categories is vastly higher than under both the Biden presidency and the first Trump administration. ICE — the Immigration and Customs…
Read MoreFrustrated Federal Employees Line Up For Food As US Shutdown Wears On
[ad_1] Standing in the middle of a parking lot in suburban Washington, surrounded by hundreds of federal employees waiting for food handouts amid the US government shutdown, Diane Miller summed it up simply. “How am I gonna eat?” the 74-year-old public servant asked bitterly. When her turn came, she showed her government employee card and…
Read MoreNFL Chief Goodell Shrugs Off Bad Bunny Super Bowl Critics
[ad_1] National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday stood by the choice of Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny to headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, a decision President Donald Trump has branded “absolutely ridiculous.” Speaking in New York after the league’s annual autumn meeting, Goodell said he had no qualms about picking the…
Read MoreICE Agent Shoots Deputy Marshal and TikTok Streamer During South L.A. Raid Gone Wrong
[ad_1] An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation in South Los Angeles devolved into a shooting when an agent shot and wounded a deputy U.S. marshal and a TikTok streamer during an attempted arrest, federal officials said. The incident took place on Tuesday at around 9 a.m. as ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
Read MoreLouvre Director Admits ‘Insufficient’ Camera Coverage After Heist
[ad_1] The director of the Louvre on Wednesday admitted to inadequate camera surveillance of the museum’s outside walls, three days after thieves robbed it of prize jewels in a brazen daytime heist. But Laurence des Cars said that a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that the burglars damaged and dropped as they fled on Sunday could…
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