Category: World News
French President Emmanuel Macron to address nation in attempt to calm public anger regarding pension reform
Fox News French President Emmanuel Macron is aiming to calm public anger that threatens the ambitions of his remaining four years in power with a first televised address to the nation on Monday since he enacted protest-igniting pension reforms. The evening address kicks off a likely arduous battle for the second-term president to repair the…
Read MoreUS sails warship in Taiwan Strait following China’s drills in region
Fox News The U.S. sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait for the first time since China concluded its massive military drills surrounding Taiwan on Sunday. The U.S. 7th Fleet sent guided missile destroyer USS Milius through the strait in what the U.S. has called a routine operation, and one which served to emphasize that…
Read MoreHundreds of French firefighters battle country’s biggest forest fire so far this year
Fox News France’s government sounded the alarm Monday about the growing risk of forest fires because of climate change, as hundreds of firefighters in the country’s parched south wrestled with their biggest woodland-destroying blaze so far this year. The fire erupted Sunday and burned on more than 2,500 acres of land along the Mediterranean coast,…
Read MoreChinese national arrested in Pakistan after allegedly insulting Islam, Prophet Muhammad
Fox News Pakistani police arrested a Chinese national on blasphemy charges after he allegedly insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, authorities said Monday. Under Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy laws, the offense carries the death penalty. Police identified the man only as Mr. Tian from China and said he was arrested on Sunday night, hours after hundreds…
Read MoreHouse of convict in notorious German cannibal case destroyed
Washington Post Police say the former home of a man serving a life sentence for killing and eating an acquaintance in a case that appalled Germany two decades ago has burned down https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/germany-cannibalism-house-destroyed/a60c56fe-dd1c-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreItalian police scoop up 2 tons of cocaine bobbing in sea
Washington Post Italian police have scooped up two tons of cocaine that was wrapped in protective plastic and bobbing in the sea off eastern Sicily https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/cocaine-sea-sicily-italy-drug-trafficking/bdee434c-dd1a-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreChina criticizes US sanctions on fentanyl trade, say they ‘undermine’ Washington-Beijing relations: report
Fox News China on Monday is pushing back against American sanctions targeting two Chinese companies and four nationals that the Treasury Department alleges are “supplying precursor chemicals to drug cartels in Mexico for the production of illicit fentanyl intended for U.S. markets.” The Treasury Department said Friday that the sanctions against Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology…
Read MoreItaly pushes crackdown on migrants reaching its shores
Washington Post Italy’s right-wing government is pressing ahead with plans to crack down on migrants after hundreds arrived in the last few days https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/migration-italy-meloni-salvini-sicily-lampedusa/db5cf26c-dd19-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreSenegal musician Maal named UN ambassador on desertification
Washington Post Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal has been named a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Covention to Combat Desertification https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/baaba-maal-desertification-musician/ceba1814-dd19-11ed-a78e-9a7c2418b00c_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
Read MoreBangladesh to pay off Russian nuclear plant loan in Chinese currency
Washington Post It is the latest instance of a country bypassing the U.S. dollar and using the Chinese currency to conduct international payments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/17/bangladesh-russia-yuan-china-loan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_world
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