50+ min ago   (790+ words) Syrian Government plans to turn a former military airport in Damascus into a hub for private jets are raising alarm among rights groups and residents who say redevelopment could disturb suspected mass graves and override private land claims. Syria’s civil…...

35+ min ago   (1238+ words) BRENDA GOH, JU-MIN PARK and EDUARDO BAPTISTA, of Reuters, report on how North Koreans are increasingly indulging in leisure and pleasure activities… Coffee bars. Waterparks. Retail therapy. North Korea – a country few would associate with leisure or pleasure – is experiencing…...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (663+ words) Ugandan king Oyo Nyimba, long the world’s youngest monarch, was buried on Saturday among the tombs of his royal forebears as his Tooro Kingdom looked to put a bitter succession battle behind it. Oyo’s appointed successor, the news anchor Edward…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (364+ words) An Ecuadorean court sentenced former President Abdala Bucaram to nine years and four months of imprisonment late on Wednesday for his involvement in a criminal organisation that fraudulently sold medical supplies during the pandemic. Bucaram, 74, who was in power from…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (762+ words) Norway’s King Harald V was laid to rest on Wednesday after a state funeral rich in pomp and ceremony and attended by dozens of European royals and heads of state following his death at the age of 89. Harald, a reformer…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (613+ words) ISABEL DEBRE, of Associated Press, reports from Ceibas on the latest incarnation of a centuries-old tradition that runs deep in Argentina even as the influence of the Catholic Church wanes…. Thirty years ago last Monday, Argentina was left stunned when…...

5+ day, 22+ min ago   (532+ words) Police used tear gas to disperse protesters who gathered overnight in multiple locations in Gambia, including near President Adama Barrow’s official residence, to denounce what they described as prolonged power cuts, residents and a Reuters witness said. In and around…...

6+ day, 26+ min ago   (270+ words) Haiti’s armed gangs are increasingly expanding from Port-au-Prince into rural areas, adopting hit-and-run tactics including kidnappings, cattle theft and roadblocks while security and political responses remain focused on the capital, a new report said on Monday. The analysis, published by…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (734+ words) Nepali rescuers searched on Monday for more than 100 hydropower workers feared trapped in tunnels days after four miracle rescues from the wreckage of catastrophic floods that laid waste to towns and villages on the Himalayan border with China. The rescues…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (720+ words) Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town killed at least 12 people including two children early on Monday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in one of the deadliest days of Israeli bombardment in recent weeks. Fears of a renewed Israeli military campaign…...