India says it is examining a request from Bangladesh for the extradition of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was recently sentenced to death in absentia over a crackdown against a popular uprising. A spokesperson for India's Ministry of External Affairs, Randhir Jaiswal, told reporters on Wednesday that his government was examining the request from Dhaka for the extradition of the 78-year-old, who fled to India after being ousted in a mass uprising in August last year.
The Taiwan president, Lai Ching-te, said there was no room for compromise on national security, and he was committed to boosting Taiwan's defences in conjunction with US support. This is not an ideological struggle, nor a unification vs independence' debate, but a struggle to defend democratic Taiwan' and refuse to submit to being China's Taiwan'. Lai and defence minister, Wellington Koo, announced the spending bump an increase of at least $8bn on what had previously been flagged on Wednesday after a briefing from the national security council.
China has warned it will crush any foreign attempts to interfere on behalf of Taiwan, after Japan announced plans to deploy missiles near the democratically-governed island. We have a firm will, strong determination and a strong ability to defend our national sovereignty and territorial integrity, Peng Qingen, a spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, told a news conference on Wednesday.
Nine of the top 10 mega-cities are in Asia, with Bangladesh's Dhaka projected to be the world's largest city by 2050. A new United Nations report has found that Indonesia's capital Jakarta is the world's largest city with 41.9 million people living there, followed by Dhaka in Bangladesh, which is home to 36.6 million. A low-lying coastal city located in the west of the densely populated island of Java, Jakarta rose from second place to replace Tokyo,
Israel has sealed off large parts of the Tubas governorate after sending heavy reinforcements into the northern Jordan Valley, shutting the region off from the rest of the occupied West Bank and imposing a sweeping siege. Residents told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that military bulldozers piled earth across every approach road before dawn, while Israeli Apache helicopters fired rounds over empty fields around Tubas in a bid to threaten Palestinian residents.
Tensions are reignited after Arunachal-born Prema Wangjom Thongdok is detained at a Chinese airport. India and China are locked in a war of words after a months-long period of calm in their relationship over the alleged harassment of a woman from India's eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh by Chinese authorities. China claims the territory of Arunachal Pradesh and calls the region southern Tibet, or Zangnan.
The anomaly is best explained by the politics of his father, Mahmood Mamdani. The apple, it seems, did not roll especially far down the postcolonial hillside. Mahmood, professor of government and anthropology at Columbia University, has long styled himself as the left's answer to VS Naipaul. Where the Nobel-winning curmudgeon surveyed postcolonial Africa with disdain, revelling in the wreckage of independence, Mamdani presents a more forgiving view: pathos instead of pity, paradox instead of despair.
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers supported by armoured vehicles have conducted raids in the Palestinian town of Tubas near Nablus in the biggest such military deployment by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since the ceasefire came into effect in Gaza last month. Palestinian media reported that a curfew was imposed on Tuesday night on Tubas and some neighbouring communities, roads were closed by earthen barriers and families forced from their homes to allow Israeli forces to use the buildings.
Former President Martin Vizcarra has been found guilty of receiving bribes from construction firms while serving as a regional governor between 2011 and 2014. A Peruvian court on Wednesday sentenced former President Martin Vizcarra to 14 years in prison over accepting bribes while serving as a regional governor. Vizcarra, who denies the charges against him, is the latest Peruvian president to be sent to prison. Former presidents Pedro Castillo (2021-2022), Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), and Alejandro Toledo (2001-2006) are all currently behind bars at a special penitentiary for former leaders in Lima.
Recently acquitted of all charges in the trial of the century' that pitted him against the leftist senator Ivan Cepeda, the right-wing former president now loses the momentum he had gained as a new election campaign gets underway Alvaro Uribe, in Lexington in April 2022.Jon Cherry (Getty Images / Concordia) Former President Alvaro Uribe, the enduring figurehead of the Colombian right, had entered the nascent election campaign with some momentum.
VATICAN CITY Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history's first American pope on the road. Leo is fulfilling a trip Pope Francis planned to make, to mark an important anniversary with the Orthodox church in Turkey.
A United States-based advocacy group has filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, accusing Apple of using minerals linked to conflict and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda despite the iPhone maker's denials. International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) has previously sued Tesla, Apple and other tech firms over cobalt sourcing, but US courts dismissed that case last year.
Kremlin spokesman says talks ongoing as US President Donald Trump pushes for an end to the conflict. Russia says the United States-brokered talks to end the war with Ukraine are serious, but its officials caution that an agreement is a long way off and Moscow would offer no major concessions to Kyiv. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in televised comments on Wednesday that the negotiations were ongoing and the process is serious.
The Trump administration shocked the world last week when it delivered a 28-point "peace plan" to Ukraine, which included demands that Kyiv cede territory to Russia that Moscow does not currently control and would ban Ukraine from joining NATO, among other controversial provisions that some US lawmakers described as amounting to a Russian "wish list." A flurry of diplomatic activity followed, leading to high-level meetings in Geneva and Abu Dhabi.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is accelerating efforts to forge a grand national agreement with the business sector to revive an economy showing clear signs of weakness. Despite a cool head approach to the United States and the Mexico Plan, the country's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.3% due to a decline in industrial activity and decreases in consumption, as well as in public and private investment.
A new feature rolled out on the social media platform X has set off waves of finger-pointing by suggesting that many account holders may not be physically located where users assume they are. Late last week, X, which is owned by Elon Musk, added more information to most accounts, including some that could provide clues on where the account user is located.
I have experience in my field, and was only getting bites here and there from hiring panels who were genuinely more overwhelmed than I was. I found a job in Australia within a week. I dream of scenes from my childhood: beaches, fish and chips, and the bright bloom of pohutukawa trees. But as vivid as those memories are, you can't build a life on scenery alone.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva insisted this week that there are no remaining obstacles to signing the EUMercosur trade agreement next month after more than two decades of negotiations. Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa, Lula said the deal would represent "possibly the largest agreement" in global trade, citing both blocs' nearly 722 million population and $22 trillion in gross domestic product (GDP).
The new Business Investor Plus visa offers residency for up to 4 years, with a pathway to permanent residence. There is an application fee of NZD $12,380 (about $7,010), and investors can invest NZD $1 million (about $567,300) for a three-year work-to-residency track, or NZD $2 million (about $1,134,480) for an expedited one-year path. In addition to this investment amount, applicants must also prove that they have the money to stay and cover their expenses to the tune of NZD $500,000 (about $283,700)
On the night of 25-26 November 2025, units from Ukraine 's defence forces struck, among other targets, the VNIIR-Progress plant, which manufactures navigation equipment and components for cruise and ballistic missiles, in Cheboksary, [Russia's] Republic of Chuvashia.
Branson announced her death on Tuesday in a post on social media, saying he was heartbroken to share that Joan, my wife and partner for 50 years, has passed away. She was the most wonderful mum and grandmum our kids and grandkids could have ever wished for. She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world. Branson is the founder of the Virgin Atlantic airline, space tourism company Virgin Galactic and satellite launcher Virgin Orbit.
With the shadow of Max Verstappen now looming larger than ever, McLaren's double disqualification in Las Vegas will have revived a question that has dogged McLaren throughout the "Papaya rules" era: is it time to back one driver over the other to win the title? Verstappen's big win on the casino-lined roads of Sin City initially looked to have simply kept him in Formula 1's championship fight, but McLaren's technical violation that followed moved Verstappen right into the rearview mirror.
