Новости за 16.03.2024

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro says he's “not afraid of any trial,” a day after documents released by the Supreme Court revealed that two top military leaders said the populist plotted to remain in power after losing the 2022 election

Defense officials say at least 16 soldiers, including four officers, have been killed in southern Nigeria while responding to a distress call during fighting between two communities

Media reports in Latvia say that the country's state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security se...

Bulgarians have lined the streets of Sofia to bid farewell to the late Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte

The Indian navy says it has intercepted a bulk carrier that was hijacked by Somali pirates and demanded they surrender

India has announced its general elections will start on April 19 and results are expected on June 4

A union representing many German train drivers and the main national railway operator have resumed negotiations in a bitter dispute over working hours and pay

India announces dates for general elections, starting April 19 with results expected on June 4

Vaughan Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government

Pakistan's military says a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden truck into a military post in northwest Pakistan

Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday

When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly last month in an Arctic prison, his team was left with a monumental challenge: sustaining an opposition movement against President Vladimir Putin without the living example of their defiant an...

Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule

Mice that were accidentally introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are breeding out of control because of climate change

A Hong Kong court has sentenced 12 people to prison Saturday over the storming of the city’s legislative council building at the height of the anti-government protests in 2019

TikTok creators across the country are expressing frustration over a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would lead to a nationwide ban of the app if its China-based owner doesn't sell its stake

Some 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than 4 million require food aid, sometimes eating only once a day or not at all

Chin Choeun spends nearly 12 hours a day collecting sap from palm trees that he and his wife turn into palm sugar. The 54-year-old boasts of being one of Cambodia's most skilful palm tree climbers, having learned the skill from his father. But after 36 years scaling tree after tree, Choeun plans to retire in the next couple of years, because of age-related safety concerns. “It was a job that I took over from my father. It was his legacy, and I don’t want it to end because of me. but I know that it will be over after me,” Choeun said. Читать дальше...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado faces a choice on which the hopes of millions of Venezuelans fighting to restore their democracy depends

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's new ride is a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin

Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight

Two AP journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below

Vice President Kamala Harris says it's “absurd” that the federal government classifies marijuana as more dangerous than fentanyl, the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths in the United States

Greece’s left-wing opposition leader has briefly stepped away from politics for a mandatory stint in the military