Plan is to send 60 hippos to Gujarat, India, and another 10 animals will go to zoos and sanctuaries in Mexico.Colombia will transfer 70 hippos once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar to overseas sanctuaries at a cost...
From: The Bottom LineRwandan activist and US resident Paul Rusesabagina was freed from jail and allowed to return to Texas after White House intervention.Paul Rusesabagina is considered a hero by many for sheltering hundreds of Rwandans...
The far-right politicians said they were protesting against the speech because it violated Austria’s principle of neutrality.Lawmakers from the pro-Russia, far-right Freedom Party have walked out of the lower house of Austria’s parliament during a speech by Ukrainian...
Hyderabad, India – Once when Nikhat Zareen came home with a bleeding nose, her mother burst into tears. “Your face will be spoiled,” she said, worrying how her girl would find a groom.Nearly a decade later, Zareen on...
Harare, Zimbabwe – Revelations of gold smuggling by individuals affiliated with Zimbabwean government officials and the ruling party in an Al Jazeera documentary have triggered outrage in the country.The four-part documentary titled The Gold Mafia was filmed by...
Peru accuses Colombia of downplaying ex-President Pedro Castillo’s recent attempted power grab which led to his removal.Peru has announced a “definitive recall” of its ambassador to Colombia, accusing its neighbour, as it did with Mexico last month, of...
Dakar, Senegal – Prominent opposition leader Ousmane Sonko is scheduled to face charges of libel in a Dakar court on Thursday. If found guilty, the political leader could be barred from running in the 2024 presidential elections.Originally set...
The Wall Street Journal reporter was detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.Russian authorities have detained an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal on espionage charges, Russia’s top security...
Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich dismissed the existence of a Palestinian people and history in a speech he delivered in Paris on March 19.Born in 1980 in Haspin, a settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, Smotrich made these...
Australia’s parliament has passed breakthrough climate laws targeting the nation’s worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about 5 percent each year.The laws apply to 215 major industrial facilities – each producing more...
Prosecutors have identified eight people who may be responsible for the deaths of 39 men at the centre in Ciudad Juarez.Eight guards and officials face possible murder charges after a blaze at a Mexican migrant detention centre in...
In mid-March, Bangladesh started testing the transmission of electricity from a massive 1,600 MW coal-fired plant in neighbouring India that has stirred major controversy in both countries.While the supply of electricity for commercial use from this plant is...
BREAKINGBREAKING, The incident occurred during military training in the US state of Kentucky.Two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a training mission over the US state of Kentucky and casualties are feared.
The status of the crew members...
Some 230 people have been rescued after a ferry caught fire in the sea off the southern Philippine province of Basilan.At least 10 people have died and around 230 were rescued after a passenger ferry caught fire in...
Hurricane Fiona was the costliest weather event on record in Atlantic Canada, while Ian was the third most devastating in the US.The death and destruction caused by Hurricanes Fiona and Ian in North and Central America last year...
Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States have expressed concern over the Myanmar military’s dissolution of the country’s former ruling party, warning the move could bring further instability to the violence-wracked country.The statements of concern on...