Month: January 2023

In an effort to tackle environmental pollution, Angolan President João Lourenço has set up a task force to draft a national legal plan to ban plastic. In a presidential decree published in the Jornal de Angola, João Lourenço explained that there are “worrying levels of pollution resulting from the use of plastic in general”. The […]

Dubai set out a 32 trillion-dirham ($8.7 trillion) economic plan on Wednesday that includes doubling foreign trade and investment over the next decade to boost its standing as a global financial hub. The emirate, part of the United Arab Emirates’ federation, is the Middle East’s business and finance center. It’s already been deepening trade routes […]

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led administration is to sign a contract with a Chinese company to extract oil from the Amu Darya basin in the country’s north, the acting mining minister said on Thursday. The contract would be signed with Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co (CAPEIC), officials told a news conference in Kabul. It will be […]

Ukraine’s military estimated on Thursday that 800 Russian soldiers were killed in the past day, mostly in fighting in the eastern Donetsk region, while Western allies pledged supplies of armored battle vehicles but not the tanks Ukraine wants. Giving its regular morning roundup of the fighting, Ukraine’s military said Russian forces were focused on an […]

United Arab Emirates Foreign Affairs Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al Safadi have condemned the latest developments at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound as a “violation of international law.” Israel’s new far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the al-Aqsa mosque compound on Tuesday, a site revered by Jews, […]

Cristiano Ronaldo said he turned down offers from clubs in Europe, Brazil, Australia, and the US to join Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr, where he hopes to use his experience to develop the sport in the country. “In Europe, my work is done,” he said during a press conference at the Mrsool Park Stadium in Riyadh […]

Russia is planning to launch a long-term campaign of attacks against Ukraine using Iranian-made drones in an effort to demoralize and “exhaust” the war-weary country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, citing intelligence reports. During his nightly address on Monday in Kyiv, the Ukrainian president said he received intelligence indicating that the attacks would be carried […]

Tanzania’s president Samia Suluhu Hassan has lifted a ban on opposition rallies imposed in 2016 by her strongman predecessor, in an overture to political rivals seeking the restoration of democratic traditions. “According to our laws, it is the right of political parties to hold their public meetings… my presence today in front of you is […]

The New York Police Department says a man accused of attacking police with a machete near Times Square on New Year’s Eve, injuring two officers, has been arrested on charges of attempting to murder officers The 19-year-old suspect in a shocking machete attack on three NYPD officers near Times Square on New Year’s Eve has […]

The FDNY says 18 people were injured when an SUV crashed into a restaurant in Inwood, Manhattan on Monday evening. Authorities say the crash happened at around 9 p.m. at the Inwood Bar & Grill on Broadway and West 204th Street. According to the fire department, none of the injuries are considered life-threatening.

A possible strike by thousands of New York City nurses is looming even though nurses at one hospital reached a tentative agreement hours before their contract was set to expire. The pact affecting 4,000 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital awaits ratification. Contract talks between nurses and seven other hospitals will resume this week to avert a […]

Malawi has delayed the opening of public schools in its two major cities of Blantyre and Lilongwe, the health minister said on Monday, to try to slow down a surge in cholera deaths. The total number of cases has surged to 17,824 and the number of deaths to 595 since cases were first reported in […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for developing new intercontinental ballistic missiles and a larger nuclear arsenal to counter US-led threats, state media said on Sunday, amid flaring tension between the rival Koreas. At a meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim highlighted the need to secure “overwhelming military power” to defend its sovereignty […]

Iranian police briefly detained several unidentified top-tier football players in a raid on a party on New Year’s Eve where alcohol was served in violation of a ban, Iranian media reported. Mingling between sexes outside marriage and drinking alcohol are banned under Iran’s Islamic laws. Social restrictions are among issues that prompted mass unrest in […]

An explosion at the entrance to a military airfield in the Afghan capital killed and wounded several people on Sunday, an official told AFP. The cause of the blast at the gate of the facility next to Kabul’s international airport was unclear, interior ministry spokesman Abdul Nafy Takor said. “A number of our compatriots have […]

One NYPD officer was reportedly stabbed and another was struck with a pipe near Times Square late Saturday night. The injured officer was reportedly stabbed in the head and has been rushed to Bellevue Hospital. His condition is currently unknown. A suspect was reportedly shot by police and is in custody.

A woman who has previously said Steven Tyler had an illicit sexual relationship with her when she was a teenager is now suing the Aerosmith frontman for sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The lawsuit brought by Julia Misley was filed Tuesday under a 2019 California law that gave adult victims […]

A Manhattan pharma millionaire convicted of killing her 8-year-old autistic son was found dead in a Brooklyn apartment just hours after a U.S. Supreme Court justice issued an order that would have sent her back to prison. Gigi Jordan, 62, was found dead about 12:30 a.m. Friday in an apartment on MacDonough St. in Stuyvesant […]