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Indian regulators held IndiGo’s chief executive accountable for the severe disruptions that have roiled the country’s biggest airline in recent days, faulting the company for “significant lapses in planning, oversight and resource management.” The Director General of Civil Aviation issued a show-cause notice on Saturday demanding CEO Pieter Elbers explain the cancellations that affected almost half of its flights the …

A recent White House document has warned that Europe is facing “civilizational erasure” due to its current political and cultural headwinds The United States remains the EU’s most important ally, despite Washington publishing a new national security strategy that is highly critical of Western Europe, the bloc’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas has claimed. Speaking at the Doha Forum in …

Ground has quite literally been broken on a Chinese-funded project to modernise the Tanzania-Zambia railway after years of negotiations, amid intensifying “corridor wars” as major powers compete to shape transport and trade networks across not just Africa but also Eurasia and beyond. The US$1.4 billion upgrade will restore the 1,860km railway, known as Tazara, a vital corridor linking Zambia’s Copperbelt …

Known as ‘death by a thousand cuts’ or ‘slow slicing’, this chilling method of execution was used in China, and the name barely scratches the surface of the horrors it entailed. Until its prohibition in 1905, criminals across China, Vietnam, and Korea could be sentenced to Lingchi, a form of torture resulting in a slow and agonising  death. Convicts would …

The agency has found the protective structure over the 1986 reactor critically damaged after a drone strike The protective shelter over the reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant can no longer guarantee radiation containment, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said. The agency added that urgent major repairs are now required. The warning follows an inspection prompted by a …

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor who shoots an albatross is forced to hang it around his neck as penance, with the bird becoming a heavy burden and a reminder of his guilt. This metaphor was invoked by Goh Keng Swee, widely regarded as the “economic architect” of modern Singapore, as his code …

Rural fire service superintendent Ben Shepard has echoed the words of the NSW Premier, describing conditions as “problematic”. He told the ABC, Australia’s national broadcaster, that a fire in the coastal town of Woy Woy, NSW, transferred across the bay by jumping over the ocean, with embers therefore traveling nearly an entire kilometre to ignite new parts of the region ablaze. …

The sides reportedly discussed territorial issues and security guarantees for Kiev Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has had a difficult discussion with US negotiators about Russia’s territorial demands, Axios reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Zelensky spoke over the phone on Saturday with US peace envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law and informal adviser Jared Kushner. According to Axios, the …

OnlyFans star Bonnie Blue – famous for claiming to have slept with more than 1,000 men in 12 hours as part of a viral stunt earlier this year – has been arrested in Bali alongside over a dozen men for allegedly violating Indonesia’s “morality” laws. The 26-year-old British content creator, real name Tia Billinger, remains in custody in Kuta, as …

Europe’s football governing body said that political statements during games are unacceptable The European football governing body UEFA has fined the Ukrainian football association after fans displayed an anti-Russian banner at a stadium. According to the UEFA Match Delegate, during a Euro 2024 qualifying playoff against Iceland in Wroclaw, Poland, Ukrainian fans “displayed a banner with the words ‘Russia is …