Monday, February 9, 2026

World Affairs

Christchurch shooter seeks to overturn guilty plea

Brenton Tarrant is serving a life sentence after murdering 51 people in the March 2019 attack on two mosques in New Zealand.

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,446 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the key developments from day 1,446 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.Listen to this article | 3 minsinfoPublished...

Washington Post chief executive steps down after mass lay-offs

Will Lewis says "difficult decisions" had been made to ensure the newspaper's future.

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison | Freedom of the Press News

BREAKINGBREAKING, Founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper gets lengthy sentence under Beijing’s national security law.Listen to...

Centre-left candidate poised to comfortably win Portuguese presidency

António José Seguro is on course for a landslide victory over far-right rival André Ventura, with the...
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Tottenham’s Bentancur banned for seven games over racist remark about Son | Football News

Uruguayan midfielder found guilty of ‘aggravated breach’ in comments about his South Korean club captain Son Heung-min.Tottenham Hotspur’s Rodrigo Bentancur has been banned...

Hundreds of Honduran villages cut off by rain

ReutersMore than 2,500 homes were damaged and more than 200 destroyed, officials said. Sara is the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane...

Access to climate education is a matter of justice | Climate Crisis

In his poem The Right to Dream (1995), Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano imagines “how the world will be in 2025”. He dreams of...

Fury in Russia at missile move but Putin so far silent

President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike inside Russia with long-range missiles supplied by the US has sparked a furious response in...

‘I will not be silent’: Australia censures senator for King Charles protest | Indigenous Rights News

Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe says she has no regrets as Senate expresses disapproval of protest against the monarch.Australia’s Senate has voted to censure...

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov dies at 39

The ballet world is mourning the death of Vladimir Shklyarov, one of its leading male dancers.Shklyarov, a principal with the prestigious Mariinsky Theatre,...
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