A growing number of seizures of guns made at home from 3D-printed parts are raising alarm bells for European police over an emerging threat.. "Rapidly evolving advanced technology may cause this to emerge as a more significant threat in the near future," said Ina Mihaylova, a spokeswoman for European police agency Europol.
Liz Truss is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in Britain's history, after the public, MPs and the markets comprehensively rejected the self-styled heir to Margaret Thatcher.. Truss's rise to become the UK's third female prime minister inevitably led to comparisons with the first: Thatcher.
Deadly clashes between police and demonstrators protesting at the military's grip on power erupted in Chad on Thursday, claiming "about 30" lives, including around 10 members of the security forces, according to an official toll.. "There were about 30 deaths, including about 10 among the security forces, and several injured," government spokesman Aziz Mahamat Saleh told AFP. "A banned demonstration became an insurrection," he said.
Turkey's central bank on Thursday cut its policy rate for the third consecutive month despite a plunging lira and an annual inflation rate that has soared over 83 percent.. The latest decision comes after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the central bank would keep cutting rates every month for "as long as I am in power" -- and despite inflation hitting 83.45 percent in September on an annual basis.
A Gambian man on trial in Germany accused of belonging to a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist, on Thursday denied the charges. . He was detained on the charges in Germany in March 2021.
The Philippines will acquire heavy-lift military helicopters from the United States, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said Thursday, after scrapping a deal to buy similar aircraft from Russia.. "We have secured an alternative supply (for heavy-lift helicopters) from the United States," Marcos, who was elected president in May, told a business forum.
Italy's president began consultations Thursday on forming a new government following the victory of far-right leader Giorgia Meloni in elections last month, as tensions over Ukraine threatened the unity of her coalition.. "Anyone who does not agree with this cornerstone will not be able to be part of the government, even at the cost of not forming a government," Meloni said.
With his shaved head and uncompromising scowl, General Sergey Surovikin has become the face of Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine in just a few days.. Dressed in military uniform and surrounded by Russian flags, Surovikin said of operations in Ukraine that the "situation is tense".
Embattled British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Thursday faced more calls from her own party to step down after a key minister quit and lawmakers rebelled during "a day of extraordinary mayhem".. Its tabloid sister paper The Sun ran the front page headline "Broken", saying Truss's "authority is in tatters after a day of extraordinary mayhem".
The Ethiopians government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa next week.. "AUC (African Union Commission) has informed us that the Peace Talks is set for 24 Oct, 2022 to be held in South Africa.
