One hundred years ago on Tuesday, Ireland gained statehood in the midst of a bitter civil war.. It was one in a string of compromises made in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 that concluded Ireland's three-year war of independence.
Shuttled between tourist spots, posing for pictures on beautiful beaches, and dancing awkwardly to merengue: Russian tourists have found a friendly holiday destination on a Venezuelan island far from the motherland and its war with Ukraine.. For thousands of Russians seeking sun-soaked holidays, but faced with visa and flight restrictions over the Ukraine war, it is a match made in Caribbean heaven.
A court on Tuesday will deliver a verdict in a divisive corruption trial of Argentina's Vice President Cristina Kirchner, who is likely to avoid jail even if found guilty due to congressional immunity.. As vice president, Kirchner is head of the country's Senate and enjoys immunity as a lawmaker.
Brazil hit top gear with Neymar back in the line-up to brush aside South Korea 4-1 on Monday and ease into the quarter-finals of the World Cup where they will face Croatia.. Three-quarters of the quarter-final line-up is now set, with Argentina facing the Netherlands on Friday, the same day Brazil play Croatia.
The lower house of Switzerland's parliament voted Monday to dramatically broaden the country's limited definition of rape to include all sex without consent, but a law-change is still a long way off.. The upper house of parliament, the Council of States, voted earlier this year for this approach -- but when the lower National Council voted Monday it opted for a more radical shift, requiring explicit consent for sex acts.
Sirens will wail across China as the country comes to a standstill Tuesday morning during a public memorial service for former leader Jiang Zemin, who died last week at the age of 96.. A public memorial service will be held at 10:00 am (0200 GMT) on Tuesday in Beijing's Great Hall of the People and broadcast live, state broadcaster CCTV said.
Heavy rains in northwest Colombia sent a wall of earth crashing onto a winding road, swallowing up a bus and other vehicles and killing 34 people, emergency services said Monday.. "A total of 34 people are dead and nine injured," Diana Ramirez of the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD) told AFP. "Among the injured, three managed to get out of the bus alive, and another six from a private vehicle that was also at the scene" of the accident.
US and European Union officials met for trade and technology talks Monday, but hanging in the balance are heightened tensions over American subsidies for its green industry that Europe considers anti-competitive.. - 'More solid response' - "Clearly they are trying to set out our concerns in a non-confrontational manner," a European official involved in the talks told reporters Monday.
NASA's Orion spaceship made a close pass of the Moon and used a gravity assist to whip itself back towards Earth on Monday, marking the start of the return journey for the Artemis-1 mission.. Earlier in the mission, Orion spent about six days in "distant retrograde orbit" around the Moon, meaning at high altitude and traveling opposite the direction the Moon revolves around Earth.
South Africa's ruling party on Monday warned it would not back any motion at an upcoming parliamentary debate that would lead to a vote for removing President Cyril Ramaphosa, under fire over a burglary scandal.. Tuesday's sitting is a step that could lead to a vote on whether to impeach -- remove -- Ramaphosa from office.
