Foreign

The United State Senate has passed a gun control bill, the most significant firearms legislation in nearly 30 years. Fifteen Republicans joined Democrats in the upper chamber of Congress to approve the measure by 65 votes to 33, following mass shootings last month at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a primary school in Uvalde, Texas, that left a combined 31 people dead. The bill will next have to […]

Australia's energy market operator says it will lift its suspension of the country's main wholesale electricity market tomorrow before a final decision is made as its power crisis eases. In a shocking move last week, it suspended trading on the platform following a surge in prices, Officials also urged people in the state of New South Wales to conserve power over concerns about shortages. In a statement yesterday, the Australian […]

The President of France Emmanuel Macron will meet political opponents today after he and his allies lost its majority in the National Assembly. Macron is now under pressure to secure support from rivals to fulfil his government's reform agenda, but neither Marine Le Pen’s far-right nor Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s left-green alliance are keen to work with him. Minority governments are a rarity in France, and Macron’s ensemble alliance is 44 seats […]

Brazilian police Detective Eduardo Fontes says a suspect has confessed to shooting British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Fontes said the man, Amarildo Da Costa De Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were dug up, adding that they would work with Interpol to confirm the bodies' identities. Two suspects, brothers Amarildo and Oseney Da Costa De Oliveira, have been arrested in connection with the […]

Russia has barred top United Kingdom UK -based journalists and defence figures as part of sanctions, in response to UK measures on Russian public figures. The British Broadcasting Commission Bbc's Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson, and Nick Beake, who have reported from Ukraine, and Director General Tim Davie are on the list. A spokesperson said the BBC will continue to report independently and fairly. Sky TV, Times, Guardian, Channel […]

Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz Del Mundo mega church, has been sentenced in a Los Angeles court to 16 years and eight months in prison. 53-year-old García, pleaded guilty last week to three counts of sexually abusing girls from his congregation, which made his sentence considerably shorter than the life imprisonment he could have faced had he been found guilty in a trial. To his followers, […]