Mauritius votes in election clouded by wire-tapping scandal on November 11, 2024Mauritius was voting Sunday in a close-fought parliamentary election, with police at polling stations as the opposition warned about the risk of fraud in a nation touted as one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous democracies. The vote in the Indian Ocean archipelago follows a historic agreement last month that saw Britain cede sovereignty of […]
Syrians, Iraqis archive IS jail crimes in virtual museum on November 11, 2024After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket over his head to cry without other detainees noticing. Islamic State group extremists arrested Attar, then 37, at his perfume shop in Mosul in June 2014 after overrunning the Iraqi city, hoping to convince the respected […]
Egyptians exhume the dead as historic cemetery partially razed on November 11, 2024Twenty years after burying him, Egyptian architect Ahmed el-Meligui was forced to exhume his grandfather’s remains from a historic Cairo cemetery that is being partially razed to accommodate the growing mega-city. “Death itself is a tragedy. Here, you are reliving that tragedy all over again,” said the 43-year-old, who had 23 other relatives also removed […]
Balinese hope construction freeze can tame tourism on November 11, 2024On Indonesia’s beach-fringed resort island of Bali, fed-up locals want to slow the mass tourism that is their biggest money earner — hoping a plan to freeze hotel-building can restore some calm. Anxious about runaway tourism, many Balinese yearn for a more tranquil yesteryear, much like residents in European hotspots Barcelona, Palma de Mallorca or […]
Gunmen kill 10 in central Mexico bar attack on November 11, 2024Gunmen in a truck pulled up to a bar in central Mexico and opened fire, killing 10 people, authorities said, in an area that had been spared the worst of the country’s raging criminal violence. The attack on Los Cantaritos bar in Queretaro’s downtown district left 10 people dead inside and at least seven injured, […]
Trump completes swing state sweep by taking Arizona on November 11, 2024Donald Trump won the state of Arizona in this week’s US presidential election, US TV networks projected on Saturday, completing the Republican’s sweep of all seven swing states. After four days of counting in the southwest state with a large Hispanic population, CNN and NBC projected Trump had obtained its 11 electoral votes as he […]
Asia, the world’s economic engine, prepares for Trump shock on November 11, 2024Some Asian countries stand to gain if US president-elect Donald Trump pushes ahead with his promised massive tariffs on China and triggers a new wave of factory relocations to the rest of the region. But a trade war between the world’s biggest economies would also destabilise markets everywhere, with Asia — which contributes the largest […]
Messi and Miami eliminated from MLS Cup playoffs in first round on November 11, 2024Lionel Messi’s goal of winning the MLS Cup title came to an abrupt end on Saturday with his Inter Miami suffering a shock first-round elimination from the playoffs after a 3-2 home defeat to Atlanta United. Miami had won the regular season campaign with a record points total but after losing twice in the best-of-three […]
McSweeney wins race to open for Australia against India on November 11, 2024Nathan McSweeney won the race Sunday to open for Australia in the first of five Tests against India this month, while Josh Inglis was a surprise inclusion in their 13-man squad Sunday. Since David Warner retired in January, no firm contender had emerged to partner Usman Khawaja at the top of the order in the […]
Gauff fights back to beat Zheng for WTA Finals title on November 11, 2024Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win the WTA Finals title in 20 years with a gruelling 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2) victory over Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in Riyadh on Saturday. The 20-year-old Gauff rallied back from 3-6, 1-3 down, and erased a one-break deficit twice in the decider, to overcome Zheng in three […]