South Forecast
A look at weather conditions in the South, updated twice each day.
A look at weather conditions in the South, updated twice each day.
With other pupils, he got to try out the weapons as part of basic military training - a feature of the school programme that was dropped in the final years of the Soviet Union but has been reintroduced since the start of Russia's war in Ukraine. In the southern city of Vladikavkaz this month teenage boys in camouflage uniform took turns at firing weapons and practising first aid under the eye of instructors. Military service is compulsory for young men in Russia, whose war in Ukraine is now well into its third year.
The bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez were found and their families have been notified. Around half of those hostages have since been freed, most in swaps for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel during a weeklong cease-fire in November. Israel says around 100 hostages are still captive in Gaza, along with the bodies of around 30 more.
Five activists from campaign group Greenpeace climbed up TotalEnergies' Paris headquarters on Friday and unfurled a banner criticising the oil major's climate change strategy, a Reuters journalist at the site said. Greenpeace opposes Total's continued exploration of oil and gas, despite a 'climate emergency', a Greenpeace spokesperson told Reuters. The banner included a large photo of Total CEO and Chairman Patrick Pouyanne under a 'Wanted' heading.
The top United Nations court is ruling Friday on an urgent plea by South Africa to order Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza and withdraw from the enclave. Israel is unlikely to comply with any such order.
Paris's most famous street the Champs-Elysees is to host a giant open-air picnic on Sunday as the French capital's iconic boulevard seeks to reinvent itself.The aim of the event was to show that the Champs-Elysees, famous for its expensive boutiques and restaurants, was not only good for shopping, said Marc-Antoine Jamet, president of the organiser, the Champs-Elysees Committee.
When South Korea hosts the first trilateral summit with China and Japan in four years beginning on Sunday, the three neighbours may struggle to go beyond surface-level diplomacy after years of deteriorating ties, diplomats and officials said. Still, even handshakes would help maintain at least some high-level diplomacy after a pause since the last such summit in 2019, according to officials and members of the diplomatic community in Seoul and Tokyo. President Yoon Suk Yeol will have bilateral talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday, then hold their three-way gathering on Monday.
Around 3,000 police officers and gendarmes are now present on the island, the French High Commission in charge of security in New Caledonia said, adding that 350 people had been arrested so far. Macron on Thursday hit the pause button on a contested electoral reform that had sparked the deadly riots, pledging to first seek a wider political agreement on the island's future with all representatives from all parts of the population. The reform, which Macron said he will push back by several weeks, would allow thousands more French residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years to vote, diluting the vote of Kanaks who comprise 41% of the population.
Markets fell in Asia and Europe on Friday, tracking a sell-off on Wall Street sparked by a string of better-than-expected US data that added to worries the Federal Reserve will hold off on cutting interest rates this year.But she added that "at this stage, we expect the BoJ to wait until around October before increasing interest rates again".
Asian shares retreated Friday after strong reports on the U.S. economy raised the possibility of interest rates staying painfully high. On Thursday, most U.S. stocks slumped, in the latest example of how good news for the economy can be bad for Wall Street, when strong economic reports fueled concern that the Federal Reserve might keep interest rates high to ensure there is a lid on inflation. The weakness was widespread and overshadowed another blowout profit report from market heavyweight Nvidia.
Fears that Russia would mount an attack on any NATO member are unfounded, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday, adding that the war in Ukraine that is now in its third year showed the limits of Russia's capabilities. Hungary, a member of the European Union and NATO, has been refusing to provide military assistance to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
A major landslide has hit a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea, Australian public broadcaster ABC reported on Friday, with many people feared dead.
An 18-year-old man who was seen on video attacking a pro-Palestine encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles last month was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, records show.
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote Friday on a resolution that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel, and demands that all combatants protect them in accordance with international law. “The goal of the resolution is as simple as it is important,” Switzerland’s U.N. Ambassador Pascale Baeriswyl told The Associated Press on Thursday.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The brother of former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has been ordered by a court to pay S$400,000 ($296,000) to two government ministers in a defamation suit, according to a written judgment published on Friday. Lee Hsien Yang, the estranged younger brother of the former prime minister, made defamatory allegations against the two ministers "of the gravest kind", wrote Justice Goh Yihan.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an "internal matter," Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday, declining to comment on drills that Taiwan has condemned. China's military conducted a second day of war games around Taiwan on Friday, with drills to test its ability to "seize power" and control key areas. Beijing has said the exercises were launched to punish Taiwan's new president, Lai Ching-te.
Shah Rukh Khan’s manager has said India’s “King of Bollywood” is recovering well after reports he was hospitalized with heatstroke, as parts of the country swelter during a weeks-long general election.
The fate of former US Marines pilot Daniel Duggan now rests with Australia’s attorney general after a magistrate ruled that he was eligible to be extradited to the United States.
A Florida priest has been accused of biting a woman with whom he got into a dispute at Sunday mass. Police are investigating the incident, NBC Miami reported.
The highly contagious Ebola virus has claimed more than 15,000 lives since it was first identified in central Africa in 1976. In January, Uganda declared the most recent Ebola epidemic over after it claimed the lives of 55 people. bur-ic-dl/kjm
Donald Trump drew one of the most diverse rally crowds of his political career on Thursday when he made a pilgrimage to the South Bronx, which rejected him by a whopping 68 points in 2020.