Prince Charles told Commonwealth leaders Friday that the choice to become a republic or abandon the queen as head of state was theirs alone, and expressed "personal sorrow" at Britain's legacy of slavery.. "I cannot describe the depths of my personal sorrow at the suffering of so many, as I continue to deepen my own understanding of slavery's enduring impact," he said.
Aid trickled to devastated villages in remote parts of Afghanistan Friday but thousands of people remain with little food, shelter and water three days after the country's deadliest earthquake in decades.. Aid was starting to trickle through in some areas.
One of the last Afghan detainees held inside the Guantanamo Bay US detention centre in Cuba has been freed after 15 years following negotiations with Washington, authorities said on Friday.. Mujahid said Haroon was one of two Afghan detainees remaining in Guantanamo Bay.
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell was headed to Tehran on Friday for a surprise visit that could breathe new life into stalled talks on reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.. The visit by Borrell, his first to Tehran since February 2020, could be a determining factor in the fate of the deal.
The US Supreme Court on Friday ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of the most divisive and bitterly fought issues in American political life.. "The Constitution does not confer a right to abortion; Roe and Casey are overruled; and the authority to regulate abortion is returned to the people and their elected representatives," the court said. cl/bgs
While the outcome of the conflict sparked by Russia's invasion of Ukraine remains unclear, there is no doubt that Kyiv has already emerged as the undisputed victor in the information war.. The Ukrainian government issues a daily catalogue of Russia's losses in the four-month long conflict, while remaining cagey about its own casualties and destroyed hardware.
One of the Myanmar military's first moves during its coup last year was to place Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's de facto civilian leader and a democracy figurehead who has spent decades battling military rule, under house arrest.. - Up until now Suu Kyi -- the daughter of independence hero Aung San -- had largely been spared the time inside prison given to thousands of other democracy activists during decades of military rule.
Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine: - Ukrainian forces to withdraw from Severodonetsk - Ukrainian forces will retreat from Severodonetsk in the embattled eastern Donbas region in the face of a brutal Russian offensive, says Sergiy Gaiday, the governor of Lugansk, which includes the city.. Taking Severodonetsk, along with its twin city Lysychansk, would give Moscow control of the whole of Lugansk, one of two regions with neighbouring Donetsk that make up Ukraine's industrial heartland of Donbas.
You can see it with the naked eye and pick it up with a pair of tweezers -- not bad for a single bacteria.. Techniques including electronic microscopy revealed it was a bacterial organism, but there was no guarantee it was a single cell.
Thailand has dropped rules requiring people to wear masks from Friday, the government says, as Covid-19 cases fall and the tourism-dependent kingdom seeks to lure back foreign visitors.. The kingdom has endured a precipitous drop in tourism, welcoming 1.6 million foreign tourists during the first six months of 2022, according to government data.
