While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, March 29, 2024
A selection of news stories that happened overnight, March 29, 2024. Read More
US urges UN Security Council action to get aid into Sudan from Chad
UNITED NATIONS – The United States warned on Thursday that it would push the U.N. Security Council to take action to get aid to starving people in Sudan, possibly by…
Canadian schools sue Meta, ByteDance and Snap over social media addiction
The suits claim the companies deliberately targeted children with products designed to create compulsive behaviour. Read More
South Africa’s ex-president Zuma barred from May election
Jacob Zuma was forced out of office in 2018 under a cloud of corruption allegations but still wields political clout. Read More
Portugal’s president accepts new government’s cabinet lineup
LISBON – Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Thursday accepted the lineup of a new center-right minority government, the president’s office said. Read More
Bosnian Serb leader Dodik threatens to block national government
SARAJEVO – Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday that Serbs would block the work of Bosnia’s national government unless election laws imposed by an international envoy are…
Netanyahu asks Israeli court to defer deadline on conscription controversy
JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked Israel’s top court on Thursday to defer a deadline for the government to come up with a new military conscription plan that would…
White House says US passed written warning of Moscow attack to Russia
WASHINGTON – The White House on Thursday dismissed as “nonsense” Russia’s charge of Ukraine’s involvement in last week’s attack on Moscow’s Crocus City concert hall that claimed more than 140…
Caught up in concert shooting, a Russian woman said goodbye to the world
MOSCOW – Russian artist Alyona Kazinskaya likes to fill her social media feed with cheerful messages and vivid floral paintings. For 30 minutes last Friday night, it turned into a…
Coastguards rescue 124 migrants off Spain’s Canary Islands
GRAN CANARIA, Spain – Spanish coastguards rescued 124 migrants, including young children and a person needing a wheelchair, from two wooden boats in the seas off the Canary Islands on…