A DHL cargo plane crashed early Monday near the airport in Lithuania’s capital, killing one person, authorities said as they searched for clues to what caused the tragedy.Lithuanian officials, who in the past weeks have been probing alleged acts of sending incendiary devices on Western-bound cargo planes, stopped short of linking the crash with that …
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The UN Secretary-General on Monday slammed the “renewed threat” of anti-personnel landmines, days after the United States said it would supply the weapons to Ukrainian forces battling Russia’s invasion. In remarks sent to a conference in Cambodia to review progress on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, UN chief Antonio Guterres hailed the work of clearing and …
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French prosectors said on Monday they were seeking the maximum 20-year jail term for the man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his heavily-sedated wife, in a trial that has shaken France.Dominique Pelicot has since September been in the dock in the southern city of Avignon with 49 other men for organising the …
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French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen on Monday threatened to back a no confidence motion that could topple the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a standoff over the budget, saying after talks both sides were entrenched in their positions.Months of political tensions since right-winger Barnier became prime minister at the helm of a …
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French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was on Monday holding talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier as her party intensified warnings it was prepared to topple his government in a move that would fling France into political crisis.Months of political tensions since right-winger Barnier became prime minister at the helm of a minority government appointed …
A final round of talks on a treaty to curb plastic pollution opened on Monday, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately.The meeting opened just hours after a chaotic end to the COP29 climate talks in Baku, which agreed to a boost in climate funding that developing countries slammed as insufficient.Opening the plastics meeting, …
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The Philippines justice department on Monday labelled Vice President Sara Duterte the “mastermind” of a plot to assassinate the country’s president, giving her five days to respond to a subpoena.Duterte is being asked to explain herself in the wake of a blistering weekend press conference where she said she had instructed that President Ferdinand Marcos …
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Thirty nine foreigners have fled an online scam centre in Myanmar across the border to Thailand, where officials are working to identify potential trafficking victims, police told AFP on Monday.Scam compounds have mushroomed in Myanmar’s borderlands and are staffed by foreigners who are often trafficked and forced to work, swindling their compatriots in an industry …
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Uruguay’s next president is a former history teacher who swapped the classroom for local government — and will now lead the nation of 3.4 million following his Sunday win at the polls.President-elect Yamandu Orsi, of the Frente Amplio (Broad Front) alliance, defeated Alvaro Delgado of the center-right National Party in the second round of voting, …
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The UN Secretary-General on Monday slammed the “renewed threat” of anti-personnel landmines, days after the United States said it would supply the weapons to Ukrainian forces battling Russia’s invasion. In remarks sent to a conference in Cambodia to review progress on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, UN chief Antonio Guterres hailed the work of clearing and …
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