Month: May 2019

Five Sudanese protesters and an army major were shot dead Monday in the capital, hours after protest leaders and the ruling generals reached a breakthrough agreement on transitional authorities to run the country. The latest developments came as the prosecutor general’s office said ousted president Omar al-Bashir had been charged over the killings of protesters during…

Russia’s propaganda arm in America, the television network RT America, is increasingly warning about the health impacts of 5G networks in what has been dubbed “information warfare” by experts.  The channel has broadcast a string of reports in 2019 that have discussed suggestions that the technology could endanger the lives of Americans and raised fears…

It may have a distinctly chequered past in its treatment of women, but the Vatican has scored a small victory in its push towards greater inclusion with the formation of its first female football team. The new squad is made up of women who work in the tiny sovereign state, or the wives and daughters…

On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a Texas investor and explorer found something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: rubbish. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, said he made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 6.8 miles (35,853 feet/10,928 meters)…

Poland on Monday said it had cancelled a visit by Israeli officials over their intention to press for the restitution of Jewish properties seized during the Holocaust, a matter Warsaw insists is closed. "Poland decided to cancel the visit of Israeli officials after the Israeli side made last-minute changes in the composition of the delegation suggesting…

Legendary American actress and singer Doris Day has died at her California home at the age of 97, her foundation has said. The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed the legendary Hollywood star died early on Monday surrounded by her close friends at her home in Carmel Valley. Day, who starred as Calamity Jane in the 1953 film, "had been in excellent physical health for…

Settlements to the families of 346 people who died in the two catastrophic Boeing Max plane crashes will be calculated, in part, by how long the victims knew they were doomed. Lawyers handling claims against the US aerospace company said the longer the passengers and crew were aware of their desperate fate, the larger the…

A former conservative minister and several French MPs are calling for a parliamentary inquiry into links between Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former advisor, and Marine Le Pen’s far-Right party. Frédéric Lefebvre, who served as trade minister in the centre-Right government of President Nicolas Sarkozy, is urging the French parliament to investigate whether the anti-immigration party…

The former husband of Meghan Markle remarried this weekend in a lavish Californian ceremony almost a year after his former wife became royalty. As the Duchess of Sussex was enjoying the heady days of new motherhood with Prince Harry by her side, on the other side of the world Trevor Engelson was also beginning a new…

An Iranian woman working for the British Council has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran on allegations that she spied for the UK government.  Aras Amiri, 33, worked for the UK cultural institution in London and was arrested in Iran in March 2018 while on a private holiday to visit family. Iranian…