Republicans savaged Joe Biden on Sunday over his handling of a suspected Chinese spy balloon, while Democrats defended the president's decision to shoot it down after it floated across the United States for days, further straining taut relations with Beijing.. It should never have been allowed to enter the United States."
Ecuadorans voted in a referendum Sunday that will decide whether to allow extradition of citizens linked to organized crime in a country rocked by a dramatic increase in violence.. "Ecuadorans, exercise your right to vote for Ecuador's security and wellbeing," the president tweeted Sunday after casting his vote in Guayaquil in the country's southwest.
Iraqi activists protested Sunday to demand a law against domestic violence, days after a YouTuber was strangled by her father in a killing that sparked outrage in the conservative country.. "We demand laws to protect women, especially laws against domestic violence," 22-year-old protester Rose Hamid told AFP. "We came here to protest against Tiba's murder and against all others.
Mali's ruling junta said Sunday that it was expelling the head of the human rights division of MINUSMA, the United Nations mission there, giving him 48 hours to leave the country.. Its mission also included the protection of civilians, contributing to peace efforts and defending human rights.
The trial of 47 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy figures begins Monday, in the largest prosecution under a national security law that has crushed dissent in the city.. The 47 were charged en masse under the national security law that China imposed in 2020, after huge and often violent pro-democracy protests.
Forest fires have killed 24 people, injured nearly 1,000 and destroyed 800 homes in five days as a blistering heat wave grips south-central Chile, authorities said Sunday.. In 2017, a rash of fires in the same region left 11 people dead, injured nearly 6,000 and destroyed 1,500 homes. str-ps/pb/dg/mlr/mlm
A United Nations peacekeeper from South Africa was killed and another wounded in an attack on their helicopter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the organisation said.. "An Oryx helicopter came under fire in Goma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Sunday February 5, 2023," the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) said in a statement.
Ecuadorans voted in a referendum Sunday that will decide whether or not to allow extradition of citizens linked to organized crime in a country rocked by a dramatic increase in violence.. The extradition of Ecuadorans is prohibited by the South American country's constitution.
Pervez Musharraf was a polarising figure in Pakistani politics, returning the country to a period of economic stability while accused of rampant abuses and weakening democracy.. Entering America's war weakened our own country."
Austrian police said Sunday that five people had been killed in avalanches in the west of the country, after three deaths were reported Saturday despite pleas for caution on ski slopes.. And a 62-year-old man, who had not returned after cross-country skiing around the summit of Hohe Aifner, was recovered by rescuers and could not be revived, a police spokesman told AFP. The authorities declined to give information on the nationality of the four victims recovered Sunday.
