Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman (L), India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and US President Joe Biden attend a session as part of the G20 Leaders’ Summit at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on September 9, 2023. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images NEW DELHI — Even for … Read more
By Ayanda Charlie in Johannesburg & Tamasin Ford in London BBC Africa Eye 1 hour ago South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country’s most-prominent anti-migrant street movement. In a … Read more
As Vietnam’s relationship with the United States becomes a countervailing force to China amid disputes over the South China Sea and economic matters, Beijing has scrambled to send a top diplomat to shore up ties with Hanoi. The fence-mending trip from September 4-6 by Liu Jianchao, head of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department, who … Read more
Portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin at a makeshift memorial at the Wagner office in Novosibirsk on August 24. Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images On August 23, two months after his brief rebellion, Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash. The cause is unclear, but Russian President Vladimir Putin is suspected of orchestrated … Read more
For the record:12:39 p.m. Sept. 17, 2023: An earlier version of this story said Ukraine was part of Russia until independence in 1991. Ukraine was part of the former Soviet Union. The tables were laid, the candles were lighted, and the last rainy-day light was dying as prayerful voices rose toward the synagogue’s ornate domed … Read more
Updated September 17, 2023 at 2:53 p.m. EDT|Published September 17, 2023 at 1:52 a.m. EDT Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, left, and Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, the commander of the Russian navy, center left, take North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center right, on a tour of a Pacific Fleet frigate in Vladivostok, Russia. (Russian Defense … Read more
Photo:VCG The week saw a packed new round of diplomatic activities for China, with fresh outcomes achieved on Friday as China and Zambia announced they were lifting their ties to a comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership during Zambian president’s ongoing China visit. Meanwhile, China and Cambodia consolidated their ironclad friendship with a visit by Cambodia’s new … Read more
CNN — The arrival of US soldiers for a peacekeeper training exercise in Armenia has rankled the Russian government, which has for decades acted as the sole security guarantor for the former Soviet republic. The 10-day “Eagle Partner” exercise, which began Monday, involves 85 US and 175 Armenian soldiers and aims to prepare the Armenians … Read more
CNN — The death toll from devastating flooding in Libya’s eastern coastal city of Derna has risen to at least 11,300, according to a UN report released Saturday, even as continuing search efforts are expected to find more victims. A further 170 people have been killed outside of Derna due to the flooding, the United … Read more
CNN — From the litany of bad headlines surrounding the world of travel, you could be forgiven thinking it’s been the summer from hell for vacationers. Environmental disasters, aviation industry mishaps and strikes, dirty beaches, soaring temperatures, deluges, price hikes and overcrowding all seem to have conspired to ruin getaways for hundreds of thousands, if … Read more