Video released by India’s Southern Railways shows the moment a policeman saved a passenger who slipped while trying to board a moving train. The incident happened on Monday at the Erode Junction in Tamil Nadu, Southern Railway said in a post on X. The woman, who was running to board the Erode-Chennai Yercaud Express, was […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said the US revoked his visa and banned him from the country. The 91-year-old author, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, said the US consulate asked him to bring in his passport so his visa could be cancelled in person as new unspecified information had come […]
Continue ReadingPaul Kirby,Europe digital editor and Anna Holligan,Hague correspondent AFP via Getty Images Geert Wilders is facing a strong challenge from left-leader Frans Timmermans and liberal Rob Jetten Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam Freedom party is facing a tight race in Wednesday’s Dutch election, and even if he wins the vote his hopes of forming a new government […]
Continue ReadingThe co-founder of ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s says that its parent company Unilever blocked it from launching an ice cream flavour that expressed “solidarity with Palestine”. Ben Cohen announced that he will independently create the new flavour as part of a personal series highlighting causes the company has been barred from addressing publicly. […]
Continue ReadingCameroon’s Interior Minister Paul Atanga Nji says opposition leader Issa Tchiroma Bakary will face legal action over allegations he incited “violent post-election demonstrations”. At least four protesters have been killed during clashes between security forces and opposition supporters since Cameroon’s election on 12 October, with 92-year-old President Paul Biya winning an eighth consecutive term. Tchiroma […]
Continue ReadingAustralian girls are being hunted by online crime networks and coerced into acts of violence – against themselves, their siblings or pets – in a “twisted type of gamification”, police have warned. A new taskforce has been set up to help global authorities tackle this “new and disturbing front in traditional gender-based violence”, Australian Federal […]
Continue ReadingAustralian authorities are investigating after an 80-year-old woman who was left behind on a Great Barrier Reef island by a cruise ship was found dead. The woman had been hiking on Lizard Island, 250 km (155 miles) north of Cairns, with fellow passengers from the Coral Adventurer cruise ship on Saturday but is believed to […]
Continue ReadingNikhil InamdarBBC News, Mumbai Getty Images The Tata Group, headed by N Chandrasekaran, is facing severe business headwinds A year after the death of Ratan Tata, the Tata Group – a gigantic Indian salt-to-steel conglomerate which he steered into a global, modern, technologically advanced enterprise – finds itself facing a plethora of crises. The business […]
Continue ReadingAt least 64 people were killed in a police operation against the Red Command gang in Rio de Janeiro’s northern suburbs – the largest and deadliest raid in the Brazilian state’s history. Four police officers were among those killed during Operation Containment in the Alemão and Penha districts, state Governor Cláudio Castro said. More than […]
Continue ReadingBBC Protesters gathered in Seoul ahead of Trump’s arrival on Wednesday “No Trump!” the rally of hundreds shouted, growing louder as it neared the United States embassy in the centre of South Korea’s capital Seoul. A line of police buses stopped them reaching the gates, but a stage and loudspeaker ensured their voices would soar […]
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