By Khalid Abdelaziz Updated October 25, 2021 — 5.21pm Khartoum: Soldiers arrested most of the members of Sudan’s cabinet and a large number of pro-government party leaders on Monday in an apparent military coup, three political sources said. The Information Ministry said “joint military forces” had arrested civilian members of the Sovereign Council and members […]

By Aya Batrawy October 24, 2021 — 1.29pm Dubai, United Arab Emirates: One of the world’s largest oil producers, Saudi Arabia, has announced it aims to reach “net zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2060, joining more than 100 countries in a global effort to try and curb man-made climate change. Although the kingdom will aim […]

By David Milliken October 24, 2021 — 12.48pm London: Britain recorded the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 since July over the past week, government figures showed, a day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson played down the prospect of a return to lockdown. Some 333,465 people in Britain tested positive for COVID-19 over the […]

Washington: US President Joe Biden has caused confusion by declaring the US would defend Taiwan if it was attacked by China, contradicting America’s decades-old policy towards the island. Biden’s apparent gaffe, made at a CNN town hall, forced the White House to quickly clarify that the administration was not announcing any changes to its existing […]

By Nick Allen October 23, 2021 — 12.48pm Washington: Pablo Escobar’s hippos have become the first animals to be legally recognised as “people” by a US court. In a legal case brought by the “community of hippopotamuses living in the Magdalena River”, the plaintiffs, known as his “cocaine hippos”, were accepted as “persons of interest”. […]

8 Images The best photos from the worldwide wire businesses as chosen by our image editors. Follow us on SMH Twitter and AGE Twitter October 25, 2021 — 1.21pm 1/8 A younger shepherd herds a flock of sheep by means of central Madrid, Spain. Shepherds guided sheep by means of the Madrid streets in defence […]

By Tom Mashberg October 25, 2021 — 12.59pm New York: Cambodia is urgent the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan to doc the way it acquired dozens of Khmer Empire antiquities that Cambodian officers, citing new proof, consider have been looted in the course of the nation’s many years of warfare and tumult. Although Cambodia […]

By Gareth Evans October 23, 2021 — 11.13am Cambodia’s journey has been a protracted and harrowing one. Before the signing of the Paris Peace Agreements 30 years in the past right this moment [23 October], the nation was on its knees: ravaged successively by huge US bombing, civil struggle, the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal reign of […]

9 Images The best photos from the worldwide wire companies as chosen by our image editors. Follow us on SMH Twitter and AGE Twitter October 26, 2021 — 1.23pm 1/9 A Holocaust survivor will get her make-up prepared as an Israeli soldier and one other volunteer attempt to block the daylight for the make-up artist, […]

By Marika Katanuma Updated October 26, 2021 — 1.22pm Tokyo: Japan will preserve custom within the imperial family even when it means the tip of the monarchy. After a four-year engagement, Princess Mako, the niece of 61-year-old Emperor Naruhito, married her longtime boyfriend, Kei Komuro on Tuesday. And as a result of the nation’s imperial […]