•New Zealand flag New Zealand has announced a new six-month work visa for international graduates as part of reforms to its post-study work system aimed at aligning immigration policies with labour market needs. According to Immigration New Zealand, the Short-term Graduate Work Visa will take effect from November 16, 2026, allowing eligible in...
•Responders conduct a rescue operation at a collapsed building in General Santos City, today A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 15 people, collapsing buildings and sparking tsunami warnings across the region. Philippine authorities urged people in affected coastal regions to move to higher ...
A United Kingdom court has remanded a 32-year-old man, Maxwell Oguanaya, in custody over the alleged murder of a 41-year-old Nigerian, Taiwo Ekerin, following an assault in Lewisham, London. The Metropolitan Police disclosed this in a statement obtained by our correspondent yesterday. The police noted that Oguanaya was charged with murder afte...
•Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre, yesterday Iran threatened to retaliate against the United States and Israel for fresh strikes in Beirut yesterday, further dampening hopes for a lasting peace as the Middle East war reached its 100th day. Efforts to turn a ceasefire into a settlement have repeatedly stalled, wh...
•Late French First Lady Bernadette Chirac Bernadette Chirac, widow of former French President Jacques Chirac and known as the loyal companion of one of France’s key postwar politicians, died at the age of 93, their daughter announced yesterday. She “passed away peacefully surrounded by her family in the evening,” on Friday, said Claude Chirac....
•US President Donald Trump Iran still has “21, 22 percent” of its missiles left, US President Donald Trump said yesterday, in a week in which Tehran fired dozens of them toward regional neighbours, despite a sputtering ceasefire. “They still have capacity. They have some missiles, they have some drones. I would say, percentage wise, maybe [&he...
•Trump The US Senate today approved $70 billion in funding for Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, but only after a long day of votes on multiple amendments that highlighted Republican infighting over some of the president’s other contentious policy proposals. The bill would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border ...
•Zelensky, Trump and Putin Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin in a rare open letter to the Russian leader yesterday, shortly after the Kremlin chief had conceded Moscow needed to strengthen its air defences following a spate of Ukrainian attacks. US President Donald Trump, who has pushed both sides...
President Donald Trump said a US naval blockade against Iran could last months, leading oil prices to spike to their highest level in more than four years, which held into today. Trump is expected to receive a briefing today on new plans for potential military action in Iran from Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of […]
•Keir Starmer and Elon Musk UK Leader Keir Starmer accused US tech tycoon Elon Musk today of “trying to whip up division” in Britain following anger over the police handling of the murder of a white student by a Sikh man. The case of 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was put in handcuffs by police as […]

