The Glasgow climate deal is a “game-changing agreement” which sounds “the death knell for coal power”, Boris Johnson says.Although countries...
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Israel’s parliament has failed to pass an extension to a controversial law barring Palestinians from the occupied West Bank or...
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in jail by the country’s highest court.He has...
Japan’s Naomi Osaka put the controversy over her refusal to speak to the media to one side as she started...
Germany has officially acknowledged that it committed genocide during its colonial-era occupation of Namibia, and announced a financial support gesture.German colonisers killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people there in early 20th Century massacres.Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday acknowledged the killings as genocide.“In light of Germany’s historical and moral responsibility, we will ask Namibia and the descendants of the victims for forgiveness,” he said.Mr Maas added that Germany would, in a “gesture to recognise the immense suffering...
Jacob Zuma, the former South African president, has pleaded not guilty in a corruption trial involving a $5bn (£3bn) arms...
Austria’s Anna Kiesenhofer won a surprise road race gold and Tunisian teenager Ahmed Hafnaoui stunned the favourites in the pool...
England fast bowler James Anderson took his 1,000th first-class wicket to help Lancashire skittle Kent for 74 inside a session at Emirates Old Trafford.Anderson took a wicket in each of his first three overs, then added four more in his 7-19 as Kent collapsed to 34-8 – before more than doubling their score.Bowling, appropriately enough, from the James Anderson End, the 38-year-old’s figures were his best at Old Trafford.But Kent fought back well to reduce Lancashire to 103-5 by the...
Israel says it carried out air strikes in Gaza overnight after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons from the territory, in the first major flare-up since an 11-day conflict last month.The Israeli military said it targeted compounds belonging to Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza.The incendiary balloons sparked 20 fires in southern Israel on Tuesday.Hamas said they were a response to a march by Israeli nationalists in occupied East Jerusalem.There were no casualties on either side and calm had been restored...
Jamaica’s two-time Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce underlined her credentials for the 100m crown in Tokyo with an impressive win in Doha.The 34-year-old, who won gold ahead of Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith at the same venue at the 2019 World Championships, came home in 10.84 seconds.The time makes her the third fastest woman in the world this year.Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare was second in 10.90, but American Sha’Carri Richardson withdrew before the start.World leader Richardson was suffering with cramps in the wake of...
Prosecutors in New York have convened a grand jury to decide whether to indict former US President Donald Trump on...
Several European airlines have said that they will not fly over Belarus, days after a dissident journalist was arrested on a flight diverted to Minsk.Air France is the latest major carrier to ban overflights. Neighbouring Ukraine and Poland are stopping all flights to and from Belarus.Western countries accuse Belarus of hijacking the Ryanair plane carrying journalist Roman Protasevich on Sunday.The Greece-Lithuania flight was rerouted over a supposed bomb threat.Belarus authorities on Monday released video of Mr Protasevich that appears to...
