Month: April 2019

A Thai army doctor who risked his life to remain with 12 boys and their football coach trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave in “Heroic Thai army doctor praises ‘polite resolve’ of trapped boys”

Twelve senior Russian intelligence officers  have been charged with hacking into Democrat computers in a bid to sabotage the 2016 US presidential election. The charges were brought “Twelve Russian intelligence officers charged over US election hacking”

A ceasefire announced by Hamas largely held on Sunday after the most severe exchange of fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip “Gaza ceasefire holds after Netanyahu says Israel inflicted ‘hardest blow’ on Hamas since 2014”

A farmer in the south of France stumbled across the skull of a giant, four-tusked ancestor of the elephant but failed to inform paleontologists for almost “French farmer who found ‘near mythical’ remains of elephant ancestor kept it to himself to avoid fossil hunters”

Donald Trump’s latest foreign policy outburst on Twitter shows the US President intends to follow the same playbook that he used when dealing with North Korea. “Donald Trump shifts sights from Kim Jong-un to Hassan Rouhani – but will his bellicose threats work with Iran?”

One of the British divers who spearheaded the daring mission to save 12 young Thai boys and their football coach from deep inside a submerged “British divers say they are ‘not heroes’ as Thailand offers citizenship to cave rescue boys”

President Donald Trump drew fresh criticism on Wednesday for calling NATO’s undergirding principle into question and for attacking "tiny" Montenegro, whose accession to the alliance enraged Moscow. “Trump questions if US should defend ‘aggressive’ Montenegro in blow to key Nato principle”

The 26 bodies were found huddled together, appearing to be in a last embrace. The group, many of them children, had been forced towards the “Greece wildfires: ‘We ran to the beach – then the trees burst into flames’”

The European Union’s migrant strategy suffered a major new setback Friday with Italy refusing to freely accept people rescued at sea and Libya spurning a proposal for “Libya refuses to accept proposed EU migrant processing centres”

Sunbathers on a beach near Malaga looked on in astonishment as a police helicopter chased an alleged smuggling boat on to the shore, in a dramatic “Astonished sunbathers look on as police helicopter chases off drug smuggling boat on Malaga beach”