2022-08-19 08:02 'There is so much food that has accumulated at the port of Odesa that it's going to take a long time to clear it'

2022-08-19 08:02 'There is [a lot] of food that has accumulated at the ports of Odesa'

London's transport network ground to a halt on Friday as train and bus workers held strikes over pay and conditions, the latest in a summer of labour market disputes as double-digit inflation eats into wages.

Hours before a parliamentary vote that could have brought down Prime Minister Bob Loughman's government, he engineered parliament to be dissolved, triggering elections two years earlier than expected. The opposition -- backed by 17 members of gover...

On the second day of hearings at the Federal Court, the prosecutors pressed on with their case despite Najib's claim that he was not being given a fair trial. Najib, 69, has mounted a high-stakes final appeal, which could see him imprisoned, or acq...

Xiao, one of China's richest people when he was allegedly abducted from a Hong Kong hotel in 2017, reportedly had close connections to the upper echelons of the ruling Communist Party. There had been no official word about Xiao -- who is a Canadian...

The mercury has soared beyond 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Sichuan province this week, fueling massive demand for air conditioning and drying up reservoirs in a region reliant on dams for most of its electricity. Factories including a joi...

In March, during the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, numerous atrocities were committed in small towns north of Kyiv – horrors that are still being documented today. In Bucha, an estimated 458 prisoners of war and civilians were sl...

The sport's world governing body this week suspended the national federation "due to undue influence from third parties" -- member associations must be free from legal and political interference. The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has been pl...

"It's a dream destination," said Yves Gleyze, a veteran off-the-beaten-track French tourist in his 60s as he arrived at the airport in Ilulissat. Visitors to the third-biggest town in the Danish autonomous territory are met by a rugged, austere lan...

The first of 200 new buses are expected to start service on Mumbai's busy roads from December, joining nearly 400 single-floor EVs already in operation. India -- home to 1.4 billion people -- is the world's third-biggest carbon emitter, and the gov...

Overnight missiles hammer the provincial capital. Water lines have been cut and Kim's own office was plucked from existence by a missile strike on the building in the first weeks of the war. When the block was bombed in March and Kim was announcing...

Scholz will testify for the second time to the parliamentary committee in Hamburg, which is probing whether local political figures helped a bank to avoid paying back falsely claimed tax rebates. Scholz was the mayor of Hamburg from 2011 to 2018, w...

Canada is one of many overlooked Allied countries that helped turn the tide of World War II from the autumn of 1942 onwards. Although the Canadian-led Dieppe Raid of that year ultimately failed, the Allies reaped important lessons that later helpe...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will visit the port city of Odesa on Friday to observe efforts to clear the way for Ukraine to export grain to ease the global food shortage, which has worsened due to the war. On Thursday, Guterres met with Uk...