A giant panda on loan from China to Thailand who captivated animal lovers through a 24-hour live broadcast of her antics died on Wednesday aged 21, said the zoo where she was housed.. Animal lovers in the country were glued to a live 24-hour "Panda Channel" broadcast between 2009 and 2012.
Thousands of residents fled Sudan's capital Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries, that has killed around 200 people, raged for a fifth day after a 24-hour truce collapsed.. Their hopes of being evacuated were dashed on Tuesday when a 24-hour humanitarian ceasefire collapsed within minutes of its proposed start at 1600 GMT. - Streets littered with bodies - On Wednesday morning, thousands of people took matters into their own hands and began leaving their homes in Khartoum, some in cars and others on foot, including women and children.
At dusk in northern Myanmar, fighters from the Ta'ang National Liberation Army patrol their frontlines and mark the positions of junta troops, their decades-long conflict with the military fraught with new risks since the coup.. Days after the coup the TNLA -- which says it is fighting for autonomy for the Ta'ang ethnic group -- suspended a truce with the military and has since clashed regularly with junta troops.
Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel was all set to clinch a second five-year term via a parliamentary vote Wednesday as the sole candidate in a country where political opposition is illegal.. Cuba's electoral authorities will officially announce the sole candidate for the presidency on Wednesday, and another for the vice-presidency.
The US Supreme Court will step into the divisive and emotional battle over the abortion drug mifepristone Wednesday, when it is expected to rule on tough new court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill.. An appeals court blocked any ban on the pill, but imposed tough restrictions on access, after which the baton was handed to the Supreme Court which has until midnight Wednesday to step in.
UK inflation slowed slightly last month but held stubbornly above 10 percent, official data showed Wednesday, further fuelling a cost-of-living crisis despite an aggressive series of interest-rate hikes.. The UK's Conservative government, headed by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, had last month unveiled a budget aimed at tackling a cost-of-living crisis -- which has sparked strikes as many wages fail to keep pace.
A museum emblematic of Russia's post-Soviet human rights movement has shut its doors in Moscow amid a clampdown on freedoms since the onset of the Kremlin's offensive in Ukraine. . In January, a court also ordered the closure of Russia's oldest human rights organisation, the Moscow Helsinki Group.
The screeching artillery shells crashing down from Russian positions in the embattled and rubble-strewn city of Bakhmut in east Ukraine shake 20-year-old sapper Denis the most.. There's shelling every day and every day there are more ruins," said Denis, who joined the military last year after university.
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country by mid-year with almost three million more people, UN estimates showed on Wednesday.. According to the Pew Research Centre, India's population has grown by more than one billion people since 1950, the year the UN began gathering population data. - 8 billion - The new UN report also estimated that the global population will have hit 8.045 billion by mid-2023.
Fox News averted a potentially humiliating defamation trial after a last-minute settlement Tuesday, but it took a reputational beating that observers said was unlikely to spur the influential broadcaster to tame its "disinformation engine.". While Fox News wriggled out of what was expected to be an explosive trial, analysts said the settlement was a rare example that showed there could be a heavy price for blatant disinformation -- even for once-untouchable media giants.
