International

  A Hong Kong court on Thursday convicted two former editors of a closed news agency in a sedition case that is widely seen as a bellwether for the future of press freedom in the city once considered a bastion of free press in Asia. Former Stand News editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen and former acting editor-in-chief Patrick Lam were arrested in …

Thousands of students took to the streets across Canada to protest new immigration policies introduced by Justin Trudeau’s federal government. According to reports, approximately 70,000 international students participated in the national protests, with demonstrations taking place across provinces including Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. In 2021, work permits for international students under the Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) …

Five people were killed Monday night in an Israeli airstrike in the northern West Bank. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the incident on Tuesday. The ministry said a drone fired several bullets at a group of people during the incident. READ ALSO: 12 killed in Israeli attack on Gaza school building The Israeli army announced that a control room belonging …

  Israel said it carried out a wave of pre-emptive strikes in southern Lebanon to thwart a large-scale rocket and drone attack by Hezbollah. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (second from left) and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (third from left) are “managing the situation” from an IDF base in Tel Aviv, the prime minister’s office says The Israeli military said …

  Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on stage at a rally in Arizona after withdrawing from the race and endorsing the former U.S. president. Mr Kennedy, 70, a Democrat most of his life and a scion of the Kennedy dynasty, said the principles that had led him to leave the party had …

At least five people, including a child, were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday. A report by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli drone struck a house in the town of Aita al-Jabal with two missiles and killed two people, including a seven-year-old child. An earlier Israeli strike on the town of Tayer Harfa killed …

    A month after replacing President Biden as the Democratic nominee for the 2024 presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris has accepted her party’s presidential nomination, delivering the most important speech of her political career. Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, shakes hands in the air with President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Convention, Monday, Aug. …

At least seven people have been arrested in Guatemala in connection with the deaths of 53 migrants in the United States in 2022. The country’s Interior Ministry said Wednesday that the leader of the Los Orozco gang, which it said was “dedicated to smuggling migrants to the United States,” and six others were arrested. In 2022, 53 undocumented individuals from …

The body of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch has been recovered from the wreckage of his yacht, the “Bayesian”, which sank off the coast of Sicily on Monday. The search for the latest missing person, a woman, continues with specialist divers still searching the area. So far, six bodies have been recovered, including Lynch’s. The latest discovery brings the death …

  Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a large fire at a fuel depot, which continues to burn three days after it was started by a Ukrainian drone strike. More than 500 firefighters are fighting a massive blaze at a Proletarsk oil depot in Russia’s southern Rostov region. About 20 of the 74 storage tanks were on fire, …