Earlier this week, organisers of the song contest updated their rules to state that if a country involved in an armed conflict wins the competition, it will be ineligible to host it the following year. The amendment was approved by the contest’s governing body, following feedback from participating broadcasters after Eurovision 2026 in Vienna. It…
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers. In Alabama, Jeremy Williams, convicted for the rape and murder of a 5-year-old girl in 2021, could be the southern…
Mwiche Nalupumbwe, 26, was among hundreds who braved the morning chill to queue at polling stations well before they opened. “Zambians are frustrated and this election is a 50-50, that is why we are all here early to make the change,” he told the AFP news agency. “I voted for HH because he cares about…
Western nations allege Russia has been operating a “shadow fleet” to evade international sanctions imposed on its oil exports. The UK Ministry of Defence says Russia has a fleet of more than 700 vessels, responsible for carrying 75% of the country’s sanctioned oil. This oil is a “critical lifeline for the Kremlin” in “sustaining Russia’s…
The situation in Qusra first began on Sunday when settlers blocked the road to the Palestinian families’ gates and cut off their power and water supplies. The first Israeli soldiers who came to the site prayed with the settlers – an act for which the Israel military later said they would be disciplined. On Wednesday…
Records cited by the official show that on 5 June this year, one male and two female lar gibbons were transferred from Manipur to a person in Perundurai in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district. The stated purpose was adoption. But investigators have not yet found documentation showing that permission from Tamil Nadu’s Chief Wildlife Warden had…
Japan is facing worsening summer heat. In the past two months more than 53,000 people have been treated for heatstroke, with 79 reported deaths. Now, the Do Hiemon – which roughly translates to “The Cooling Box” – is being rolled out in public spaces and sold to businesses. A unit costs 1.5m¥ each ($9,407; £6,973)….
He opens a folder and takes out a stack of large photographs: portraits of prisoners. One shows four journalists – Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger – convicted and jailed on extremism charges. They’d been accused of links to the anti-corruption organisation of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. There’s a photo…
A whistleblower jailed for leaking military secrets about Australia’s involvement in Afghanistan has been released on parole after serving 27 months. In 2024, David McBride was sentenced to five years and eight months after pleading guilty to stealing top secret defence documents and giving it to the media. His actions later led to a landmark…
Twitch is now allowing users to stop Amazon from training their generative artificial intelligence (AI) models using users’ content, the popular streaming platform said. The US company said users can opt out of a default setting that allows Amazon to use streams, clips, images, chats and other channel content. The announcement on Wednesday confirmed that…