India: Rap rebel makes a comeback after battling addiction

About 15 years ago, an Indian rapper of humble origins broke onto the country’s then-infertile hip-hop music scene and transformed it forever. He teased, cajoled and vexed his listeners, daring…

India: Israeli tourist and homestay host gang-raped

Two women were gang-raped and a man was killed in an attack near a popular Unesco World Heritage site in southern India, according to police. The two women – an…

USA: Migrant deported in chains

Gurpreet Singh was handcuffed, his legs shackled and a chain tied around his waist. He was led on to the tarmac in Texas by US Border Patrol, towards a waiting…

Australia: Storm Alfred ‘like jet airliners over roof’

A singer in Australia when a cyclone hit said it sounded like “three of four jet airliners roaring over the roof”. David Harrop from Warwickshire, who was in Brisbane, Queensland,…

Australia: Mass blackouts in storm-hit east coast.

Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Australia after a cyclone brought wild weather to the east coast. Communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW)…

Syria: President Ahmed Sharaa calls for peace after hundreds of civilians killed

Syria’s leader Ahmed Sharaa has called for peace after days of clashes where Syrian security forces have allegedly killed hundreds of civilians from the Alawite religious minority. The UK-based Syrian…

Americas: US and Canada trade barbs, it’s so far so good for Mexico’s Sheinbaum

In announcing the decision to postpone some tariffs on Mexico for another month, US President Donald Trump was at pains to praise his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum. “I did this…

Canada: Trump’s threats have brought Canada’s Liberals back from the dead

If you had asked Canadians a few months ago who would win the country’s next general election, most would have predicted a decisive victory for the Conservative Party. That outcome…

Syria: Government still faces threat from Assad loyalists

In January, days after the first-month anniversary of the fall of the Assad regime in a lightning Islamist-led rebel offensive in Syria, a group of young men – some of…

Syria: Security forces accused of killing hundreds of civilians

Syrian security forces are alleged to have killed hundreds of civilians belonging to the Alawite religious minority in continuing violence along the country’s coast, according to a war monitoring group.…