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Four people, including a pregnant woman, were killed after a vehicle in the convoy carrying the body of late Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima struck mourners, police said. Twelve other people were injured in the incident on Sunday evening and were treated in hospital. It followed clashes between locals, police and soldiers escorting the late […]

The closed-door trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia for alleged espionage will begin on June 26, the regional court in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals federal district said on Monday. “The trial will take place behind closed doors,” the court said in a statement, according to the Tass agency,

Cheng Lei, who was imprisoned in China for three years, attends a diplomatic meeting in Canberra on Monday (EPA) Chinese officials appear to have excluded a formerly jailed journalist from view of the cameras during an event between Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Canberra. Cheng Lei, who was imprisoned

Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) Monday June 17, 2024 Inter-Press Office KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jun 17 (IPS) – Since 2008, farmland purchases have doubled prices worldwide, putting pressure on family farmers and other poor rural communities. Such land grabs exacerbate inequality, poverty and food insecurity. Squeezing land and farmers a new IPES

by Thalif Deen (United Nations) Monday June 17, 2024 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) – When the 193-member UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution in September 2015, the goals were very ambitious: eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, eliminating inequalities, protecting the human rights, promoting gender empowerment and ensuring economic, social and environmental

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has said his political party – uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) – will join the opposition alliance in parliament. He said it would coordinate resistance against the ruling coalition led by the African National Congress (ANC). Despite this, MK said it maintained that last month’s elections were rigged and wanted the

Opinion by Francine Pickup (United Nations) Monday June 17, 2024 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Jun 17 (IPS) – 58 percent of respondents to a global survey believe their political system is in the hands of an elite that is corrupt, outdated and unchangeable. Corruption thrives in environments characterized by weak governance, where transparency, accountability and

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese house prices fell at the fastest pace in more than 9.5 years in May, official data showed on Monday, with the property sector struggling to find a bottom despite government efforts to curb oversupply and support debt-laden developers. According to Reuters calculations based on data from

BEIRUT (AP) – Israel air and ground campaign in Gaza has killed hundreds of relatives from the same bloodline, an unprecedented toll on the small community made up mostly of refugees and their descendants. A Associated Press investigation analyzed ten attacks in the Gaza Strip between October and December that killed more than 500 people.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Five people were killed and several injured when a freight train crashed into a passenger train in the eastern state of West Bengal on Monday, local media reported. The chief minister of the state Mamata Banerjee said in a post on social media platform She added that rescue efforts were underway,