The death toll from a boat fire and capsizing in the Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this week has risen to 148 with more than 100 people still missing, officials said on Friday. About 500 passengers were on board the wooden boat when it capsized on Tuesday after catching fire on the Congo River in…
Gisèle Pelicot, who survived nearly a decade of rapes by dozens of men, will sue Paris Match magazine for invasion of privacy, her lawyers said on Thursday. In its latest edition, Paris Match published seven pictures of Pelicot accompanied by a man described as her companion walking in the streets in her new home town.…
Monday – Friday, 10:00 – 11:00 SIN/HK | 0400 – 05:00 CET Jian Chang, chief China economist of Barclays, discusses the better-than-expected Q1 GDP data from China and says she has been less bearish on U.S.-China relations and China’s trade prospects with the rest of the world since November 2024. 05:58 Wed, Apr 16 20253:42…
The European Union is willing to talk to the Trump administration about the sweeping import tariffs announced last week, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has said. She also said Brussels was ready to take countermeasures if necessary. Euro-area short-dated yields hit a fresh two-and-a-half-year low on Monday as fears about the economic…
Pope Francis has made a surprise appearance in St Peter’s Square during a special jubilee mass for the sick and health workers, marking his first public appearance at the Vatican since his discharge from hospital two weeks ago. The pontiff waved at the crowd that stood and applauded as he was appeared unannounced, assisted in…
Donald Trump’s presidential administration has acknowledged and apologized after it says it accidentally informed some Ukrainian refugees fleeing their country’s invasion by Russia that they needed to leave the US because their legal status was being revoked. About 240,000 Ukrainians have been settled in the US as part of the Uniting for Ukraine – or…
Donald Trump on Friday afternoon extended by 75 days a deadline for the Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell US assets of the popular short-video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to take effect in January under a 2024 law. “The deal requires more work to ensure all…
Banbury, Oxfordshire Covering 261 sq metres (2,810 sq ft), this townhouse is to the south of Banbury and is on an A road leading towards the M40. Restored to cherish the period features, the five-bedroom home has high ceilings, with a lattice design in the dining room. There are stained-glass windows in this room and…
YouGov poll says Dutton’s approval lowest since becoming opposition leader Elias Visontay Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s popularity with voters has plummeted, a fresh poll suggests, with his approval rating at its lowest since taking on the Coalition’s top job. In a YouGov poll provided to Australian Associated Press – the first conducted since the federal…
A 13-year-old girl has died in a house fire near Liverpool. The blaze was found in the first-floor rear bedroom of a mid-terraced house in Kingsway, Prescot late on Wednesday evening, Merseyside police said. A man, a woman and five children escaped unharmed but the teenage girl was pronounced dead at the scene. The fire…
