1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (281+ words) Near the port of Garacad in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland region, pirates released the MV Sward vessel, which was seized in April along with its 17-member crew. The Express Tribune reports, citing AFP and sources in Puntland security services. According to…...

3+ hour, 15+ min ago   (246+ words) China considers bill to combat cross-border corruption UA.NEWS China considers bill to combat cross-border corruption In China, the country’s top legislative body is considering a draft law to combat cross-border corruption. The document provides for extending anti-corruption mechanisms to…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago   (283+ words) The family of businessman Rami Naimi has said that he has been unable to leave Saudi Arabia for nine years. Naimi’s wife, Mira Logi, and his children have launched the public #BRINGRAMIHOME campaign in London after lengthy private efforts to…...

8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (289+ words) The West Africa Centre for Counter-Extremism (WACCE) said that Ghana is increasingly exposed to a terrorist threat as extremist violence in the Sahel spreads closer to its borders. The centre's Executive Director, Muttaru Mumuni Mukhtar, said this during a memorial…...

5+ hour, 45+ min ago   (355+ words) UA.NEWS The National columnist urges not to romanticize art theft In France, the robbery at the Renoir Museum in the south of the country, from which four paintings were stolen this week, has once again raised the question of…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (179+ words) UA.NEWS In the city of Paju in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, the body of a woman who had previously left the DPRK was found. She was discovered in an apartment on Wednesday at 10:55 a.m. The body was in an advanced…...

2+ day, 27+ min ago   (210+ words) In South Korea, prosecutors have asked the Suwon District Court to sentence a man in his 40s to three years in prison. He is accused of harassment and physical violence against a younger female colleague. The 25-year-old employee, surnamed Bang, later…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (264+ words) A court in Hong Kong (China) sentenced three activists who for years organized memorial events commemorating the suppression of protests in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 to prison terms ranging from five to more than seven years. CBC World reports this....

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (132+ words) In Kyiv’s Solomyanskyi District, an enemy drone struck the roof of a four-story business center. Emergency services were dispatched to the scene to investigate the circumstances and address the aftermath of the incident. Information regarding possible casualties or the extent…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (372+ words) Occupation courts in the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast have handed down two new sentences to Ukrainians, imposing a total of 40 years in prison. A resident of Makiivka was sentenced to 15 years for passing on information about Russian military personnel…...