UN member states will vote Friday on making an exception to allow Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to address next week's General Assembly by video, according to diplomatic sources.. Since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February, the Ukrainian president has made several video addresses to the members of the Security Council.
Britain's Prince William revealed Thursday that walking behind Queen Elizabeth II's coffin had brought back painful memories, after doing the same for his mother Diana when he was a teenager.. William and Kate held a walkabout for almost an hour on Thursday, looking at floral tributes to Queen Elizabeth and shaking people's hands.
The two newlyweds have dressed up for the picture, but they are not smiling.
A video showing how an Islamist extremist ploughed his truck into a crowd in Nice killing 86 people while France was celebrating its national day sparked anguish and horror at the attack trial on Thursday.. The trial, which is set to last until December 16, is the latest legal process over the wave of Islamist attacks that have struck France since 2015. aje-ebe/jh/js/ach
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis took credit Thursday for sending two planeloads of undocumented Venezuelans to wealthy Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, as Republicans play up immigration issues before the November election.. "Immigrants are being dropped off on Martha's Vineyard by chartered flights from Texas.
A young Iranian woman is in a coma and fighting for her life after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic republic's morality police, campaigners said Thursday.. In mid-July, a young Iranian woman, Sepideh Rashno, disappeared in mid-July after becoming involved with a dispute on a Tehran bus with another woman who accused her of removing her headscarf.
A lightning Ukrainian counter-offensive with the potential to be a turning point in Kyiv's fight against the Russian invasion has once again highlighted Moscow's intelligence shortcomings in the war, analysts say.. "Russian intelligence did not understand where exactly the actual counter-offensive would take place," he told AFP. Khramchikhin also said there was a stark difference in mobilisation between Russia and Ukraine.
As preparations build for next week's state funeral, members of the public are queuing for hours in London to pay their final respects to Queen Elizabeth II at her lying in state.. - Thursday, September 15 - The queen begins her first full day lying in state at Westminster Hall, with huge crowds lining the streets to pay their respects.
South Africa's parliament has appointed an independent panel to determine whether President Cyril Ramaphosa should face impeachment over the alleged cover-up of a heist at his luxury farmhouse.. The scandal around Ramaphosa erupted in June after South Africa's former national spy boss, Arthur Fraser, filed a complaint with the police.
Thousands of Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jews have vowed to brave the dangers of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and make a pilgrimage there during the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashana.. In September 2020, thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews were trapped for days between the borders of Belarus and Ukraine after Kyiv refused to allow them entry due to the Covid pandemic.
