Category: 2. World

US space agency Nasa has blocked Chinese citizens with valid US visas from its facilities – a move that effectively bars them from working at one of the most respected space research centres.

Chinese nationals, who could only work at Nasa as…

South Africa’s highest court has ruled that husbands can take the surname of their wives, overturning a law that barred them from doing so.

In a victory for two couples who brought the case, the Constitutional Court ruled that the law amounted to…

Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said that an Arab-Islamic summit will be held in Doha in the coming days, where participants will determine the course of response. However, he…

At least 14 people on Bali in Indonesia have been killed in what officials say are the island’s worst floods in a decade.

Torrential rains triggered severe flooding across most of the island, causing rivers to burst their banks. The rain has now…

“During the past night, Russian air defense systems destroyed seventeen Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles: six over the Voronezh Region, five over the Belgorod Region, two over the Bryansk Region, two over the Kursk Region, one over…