Tourists walk on the Giftun Island beach as the sun sets over the Red Sea in Hurghada, Egypt. File | Photo Credit: AP Six people died, and nine others were injured after a tourist submarine sank in the popular Egyptian Red Sea destination of Hurghada, two municipal officials said Thursday (March 27, 2025). The officials … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Russian President Vladimir Putin. | Photo Credit: V.V. Krishnan Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India and preparations are underway for it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday (March 27, 2025). In a video address to a conference titled “Russia and … Read more
India’s efforts and progress in reducing preventable child deaths has been lauded as “exemplar” by the United Nations, which cited the example of health initiatives such as Ayushman Bharat, and said the country has saved millions of young lives through strategic investments in its health system. The United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation … Read more
A resident looks on as a wildfire devastates the area in Andong, South Korea | Photo Credit: via Reuters Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday (March 27, 2025) from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country’s worst natural fire disaster with at least 26 people killed and historic … Read more
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot (left) is greeted by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on March 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot began a two-day visit to China on Thursday (March 27, 2025) during which he is to hold talks with his Chinese … Read more
South Korea’s truth commission concluded the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children’s backgrounds and origins. The landmark report released Wednesday (March 26, 2025) followed a nearly three-year investigation into complaints from … Read more
Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro speaks to the press at Congress in Brasilia in Brazil on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: AP Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday (March 26, 2025) ordered far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial on charges of plotting a coup after failing to win re-election in 2022. The trial will be the first … Read more
Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa (Abu Mohammed al-Jolani) has a lot to prove to win over Western powers. If the first few weeks of his rule are anything to go by, he may be heading in the wrong direction. The West is watching Syria’s leaders closely to ensure they rein in the Islamist jihadists who … Read more
Divers inspecting corals impacted by a bleaching event on the Ningaloo Reef off Australia’s west coast. | Photo Credit: AFP An “unprecedented” mass bleaching event has been recorded off Australia’s western coast, scientists said Wednesday (March 26, 2025), turning huge chunks of a celebrated reef system a sickly dull white. A months-long marine heatwave had … Read more
Donald Trump. | Photo Credit: AFP U.S. President Donald Trump’s offensive against lawyers and law firms who have crossed swords with him in the past is being met with a mixture of capitulation and defiance. The 78-year-old Trump, the first convicted felon to serve in the White House, has a long and acrimonious history with … Read more