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The authorities of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni despatched a robust sign to China that it plans to stroll away from an infrastructure funding plan after her protection chief referred to as the Belt and Road Initiative a “wicked act” signed by a earlier administration. ...

A zoo in China has denied ideas a few of its bears could be people in costumes after images of the animals standing like people circulated on-line.Hangzhou Zoo stated on social media that the solar bears from Malaysia are smaller than different bears and look completely different, however insisted they had been the actual factor. "Some people think I stand like a person," the publish written from the bear's viewpoint stated. "It seems you don't understand me very well."An worker who answered the telephone on the zoo declined to speak in regards to the bears however stated visits had been being organized on Monday for reporters to see them. Twitter This content material is supplied by Twitter, which ...

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military-controlled authorities has prolonged the state of emergency it imposed when the military seized energy from an elected authorities 2½ years in the past, state-run media mentioned Monday, forcing an additional delay in elections it promised when it took over. ...

Niger's army junta, which has overthrown the nation's elected chief, has claimed the ousted authorities authorised France to hold out strikes to free the president.It comes after the presidential guard surrounded the palace within the capital, Niamey, and detained elected president Mohamed Bazoum final week. Mr Bazoum was elected two years in the past in Niger's first peaceable, democratic switch of energy since independence from France, and was largely seen as a Western, and regional, ally in West Africa.In new feedback, one of many leaders of the army coup, Colonel Amadou Abdramane, alleged the Niger overseas minister, performing as prime minister, signed the order permitting France to take motion.France, which dominated Niger as a colony till 1960, has 1,500 troopers withi...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — West African nations have given Niger’s coup leaders one week to reinstate the nation’s democratically elected president and have threatened to make use of power if the calls for aren’t met. ...

The spectacle of Russian flags waved by coup-supporters at Sunday's rally in Niamey, Niger, reveals simply how a lot Russia's effort to pitch itself as an anti-colonial flag bearer resonates.The actuality although is that it's totally disingenuous. Russia's conflict in Ukraine is a blatantly imperialist endeavor, nevertheless Putin tries to promote it to African leaders who've, by and huge, stayed impartial on the invasion.Wagner's actions throughout many African nations, particularly in Mali, Sudan and the Central African Republic, bear all types of similarities with the very worst of colonial excesses - mineral extraction, mass atrocities and safety for politically unsavoury regimes on the expense of their populations.There isn't any direct proof that Wagner had a hand with...

LONDON (AP) — Britain stated on Monday it is going to grant lots of of latest oil and gasoline licenses within the North Sea in a bid for vitality independence, ignoring calls from the environmental campaigners and the United Nations to cease the event of latest fossil gasoline initiatives. ...

Thousands of individuals have been ordered to go away a Canadian border city as a consequence of an "out-of-control" wildfire.The hearth, generally known as Eagle Bluff, has triggered evacuation orders in Osoyoos, British Colombia, with officers estimating it's round 2,200 acres (3.44 sq. miles) in measurement on the Canadian aspect of the border. It is believed to be round 2,000 acres (3.13 sq. miles) massive on the US aspect of the border in Washington state."There are Initial Attack crew personnel, several single resources, two helicopters, structure protection personnel andheavy equipment responding to the incident" in Osoyoos, the British Colombia Wildfire Service mentioned."A total of 732 properties have been under evacuation order and 2,094 are under evacuation alerts....

David Hunter, the British pensioner who killed his terminally ailing spouse in Cyprus, has been sentenced to 2 years after he was discovered responsible of manslaughter. Janice Hunter, 74, died of asphyxiation on the couple's retirement house close to Paphos in December 2021.Hunter, a 76-year-old former coal miner from Northumberland, admitted killing his spouse however denied homicide. Image: The couple have been married for 52 years He instructed a Cyprus courtroom she had blood most cancers and "begged him" to take her life as a result of she was in a lot ache.Hunter was cleared of murdering his spouse however was discovered responsible of the lesser cost of manslaughter earlier this month.Although he has b...

Denmark is to think about a brand new regulation banning the desecration of non secular books in entrance of overseas embassies over safety fears.It comes after a string of Koran burning incidents in Denmark and Sweden sparked indignant protests - and threatened a diplomatic disaster between the 2 nations and Muslim nations. Sweden can also be "assessing" the authorized state of affairs after its embassy in Iraq was stormed by protesters in response to the burning of the Koran outdoors the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm final month.On Sunday, Denmark's overseas minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen stated that the burning of holy scriptures "only serves the purpose of creating division in a world that actually needs unity"."That is why we have decided in the government that we will look ...