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The scandals of Queen Elizabeth's reign

The scandals of Queen Elizabeth's reign

REUTERS 2022-09-09 11:08:39

Queen Elizabeth, who died on Thursday aged 96, was praised for her devotion to duty, but her reign was often overshadowed by scandals involving her extended family. Here are some of the most pr...

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from western Himalayan area

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from western Himalayan area

REUTERS 2022-09-09 10:10:35

Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging from the Gogra-Hotsprings border area in the western Himalayas, both sides said, two years after clashes at the frontier strained diplomatic ties. The...

Death of Queen Elizabeth marked around world with tributes and flowers

Death of Queen Elizabeth marked around world with tributes and flowers

-- 2022-09-09 10:00:54

As world leaders paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth on her death aged 96 on Thursday, ordinary people in Britain and around the globe paid their own respects to a woman who had been the face of her...

Charles' succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

Charles' succession stirs Caribbean calls for reparations, removal of monarch as head of state

-- 2022-09-09 10:00:03

The accession of King Charles to the British throne has stirred renewed calls from politicians and activists for former colonies in the Caribbean to remove the monarch as their head of state and for B...

Queen Elizabeth II dies

Queen Elizabeth II dies

BBC 2022-09-08 23:54:13

Queen Elizabeth II, the UK's longest-serving monarch, has died at Balmoral aged 96, after reigning for 70 years. Her family gathered at her Scottish estate after concerns grew about her health earlie...

Doctors concerned for health of UK Queen  

Doctors concerned for health of UK Queen  

-- 2022-09-08 18:25:31

Doctors are concerned about the health of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and have recommended the 96-year-old remains under medical supervision, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday, with immediate family tr...

Pakistanis throw up barriers against rising floodwaters; 12 more die

Pakistanis throw up barriers against rising floodwaters; 12 more die

-- 2022-09-08 14:21:04

People were building barriers in some parts of Pakistan on Thursday to hold back rising waters that have engulfed nearly a third of the country after weeks of rain, while officials said 12 more...

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka swears in 37 junior ministers

Crisis-hit Sri Lanka swears in 37 junior ministers

-- 2022-09-08 14:08:34

Sri Lanka swore in 37 junior ministers, including two for the critical finance ministry, the president's office said on Thursday, in a major expansion of the crisis-hit country's government. The isla...

New UK leader Liz Truss finalises huge power subsidy plan

New UK leader Liz Truss finalises huge power subsidy plan

-- 2022-09-08 11:43:50

Britain's new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday readied the final details of a plan to tackle soaring energy bills, which looks likely to cool inflation but add more than 100 billion pounds...

Myanmar conflict under control, junta chief says

Myanmar conflict under control, junta chief says

-- 2022-09-08 10:40:00

The crisis in Myanmar is under control and the ruling military will do all in its power to hold elections next year as planned, providing the vote can be free from foreign interference, its lead...

Myanmar junta chief makes another visit to Russia in less than two months

Myanmar junta chief makes another visit to Russia in less than two months

-- 2022-09-07 21:43:16

Myanmar's junta leader was on a visit to Russia on Monday, his second trip there in less than two months, as Myanmar's ruling military tries to shore up one of its few diplomatic alliances as it comes...

Britain gets a cabinet first time without white man in top jobs

Britain gets a cabinet first time without white man in top jobs

-- 2022-09-07 21:18:20

The new British Prime Minister Liz Truss has selected a cabinet where for the first time a white man will not hold one of the country's four most important ministerial positions. Truss appointed Kwas...

EU plans to cap Russian gas price as Putin warns West of winter freeze

EU plans to cap Russian gas price as Putin warns West of winter freeze

-- 2022-09-07 21:03:35

The European Union proposed a price cap on Russian gas on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin threatened to halt all energy supplies if they took such a step, raising the risk of rationing in som...

Gulf nations demand Netflix remove content that 'violates Islamic values'

Gulf nations demand Netflix remove content that 'violates Islamic values'

-- 2022-09-07 20:13:14

Gulf Arab countries have demanded that the streaming service Netflix remove “offensive content”, citing unspecified material that “violates Islamic and societal values and principals...

Seized Trump documents show foreign nation’s nuclear capability

Seized Trump documents show foreign nation’s nuclear capability

-- 2022-09-07 20:05:52

A document describing a foreign government’s military defences, including its nuclear capabilities, was found in the FBI’s search last month of former US President Donald Trump’s Flo...

Putin casts doubt over Ukraine grain deal and gas supplies to Europe

Putin casts doubt over Ukraine grain deal and gas supplies to Europe

-- 2022-09-07 19:27:17

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday he wanted to discuss reopening a UN-brokered deal that allows Ukraine to export its grain via the Black Sea and threatened to halt all energy supplies to Eur...

Women earn 43pc less than men in Switzerland

Women earn 43pc less than men in Switzerland

-- 2022-09-07 18:19:32

Women in Switzerland earn more than 40 per cent less than men and draw less pension money, a gender pay gap report the government adopted on Wednesday showed, citing the high proportion of women worki...

Pope urges halt to 'world war'

Pope urges halt to 'world war'

-- 2022-09-07 15:41:50

Pope Francis on Wednesday called for a stop to the current "world war", calling on "everyone to be builders of peace" as he invoked special prayers for "martyred Ukraine." "I am not forgetting the ma...

'Impossible' to isolate Russia, Moscow will turn to Middle East: Putin

'Impossible' to isolate Russia, Moscow will turn to Middle East: Putin

REUTERS 2022-09-07 13:28:40

Russian President Vladimir Putin said it would be "impossible" to isolate Russia and that Moscow would defy the West's attempts to push Russia off the global stage. Speaking at an economic forum in t...

Ukrainian 'counter-attack underway,' UN pushes for nuclear plant's safety

Ukrainian 'counter-attack underway,' UN pushes for nuclear plant's safety

REUTERS 2022-09-07 11:45:16

Ukrainian forces have attacked the Russian-held eastern town of Balakliia in the Kharkiv region, a senior pro-Moscow separatist official said, as Ukrainian officials remained guarded about how a...

China earthquake death toll rises to 74

China earthquake death toll rises to 74

-- 2022-09-07 11:17:44

China has reopened roads leading to the epicentre of Monday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan and traffic has resumed, state media reported on Wednesday, while t...

Pakistan tries to avert lake overflow amid floods; UN warns of more misery

Pakistan tries to avert lake overflow amid floods; UN warns of more misery

REUTERS 2022-09-07 10:35:30

Pakistan scrambled on Tuesday to widen a breach in its biggest lake to prevent it from overflowing amid unprecedented floods that have inundated a third of the South Asian nation, as the United Nation...

Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World' concept

Putin approves new foreign policy doctrine based on 'Russian World' concept

-- 2022-09-06 21:38:30

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Monday approved a new foreign policy doctrine based around the concept of a ‘Russian World’, a notion that conservative ideologues have used to j...

Queen Elizabeth appoints Liz Truss as British prime minister

Queen Elizabeth appoints Liz Truss as British prime minister

-- 2022-09-06 18:04:09

Queen Elizabeth appointed Liz Truss as British prime minister on Tuesday, tasked with steering the country through a looming recession and energy crisis that threatens the futures of millions of house...

Japan, US, Philippines to step up maritime security ties

Japan, US, Philippines to step up maritime security ties

-- 2022-09-06 17:59:57

An American diplomat in Tokyo on Tuesday criticised China's "increasingly hostile maritime actions" as a threat to the safety of waterways in the resource-rich Indo-Pacific, as the United States seeks...

Protests flare across Indonesia over fuel price hike

Protests flare across Indonesia over fuel price hike

-- 2022-09-06 17:21:01

Thousands of people rallied in Indonesia's biggest cities on Tuesday, demanding the government reverse its first subsidised fuel price increase in eight years amid soaring inflation. Under pressure t...

‘730 children died in Somalia nutrition centres in January-July period’

‘730 children died in Somalia nutrition centres in January-July period’

-- 2022-09-06 17:13:35

Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centres across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global body warned that parts of Somalia will be hit by f...

Boris Johnson bows out as British PM, Liz Truss to take over

Boris Johnson bows out as British PM, Liz Truss to take over

-- 2022-09-06 16:08:24

Boris Johnson bowed out as British prime minister on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous three years in office and bequeathing his successor Liz Truss a daunting list of problems to tackle. Johnson, who was...

Hong Kong discovers first case of monkeypox

Hong Kong discovers first case of monkeypox

-- 2022-09-06 15:27:58

Hong Kong has reported its first case of monkeypox, health authorities said on Tuesday, after symptoms were discovered in a 30-year old man who arrived from the Phillippines after travelling in the Un...

Russian missile attack kills three civilians in Kharkiv region

Russian missile attack kills three civilians in Kharkiv region

REUTERS 2022-09-06 15:03:23

Three people died as a result of rocket fire in the Kharkiv region during the past day, including an elderly woman who died this night in Kharkiv city, the region's governor said on Tuesday. Kharkiv,...