World news from The Thursday Times' foreign desk.
Campaigners marched down the Royal Mile to the Scottish Parliament, demanding a say over proposed sites whose combined power needs are more than twice Scotland’s winter peak demand, grid figures show.
COMAC’s CE-25A, built with battery maker CATL, carried two pilots and a test engineer and spent nearly 17 minutes in the air over Binzhou in Shandong province.
The cabinet put off Saturday’s vote on a record spending plan as Baghdad and Erbil haggle over the Kurdistan Region’s share, while dollars sell for nearly 170,000 dinars per $100 in Baghdad.
The AIADMK and the BJP will protest on Wednesday over allegations against the Deputy Speaker and the Kallakurichi MLA, who both reject them, and accuse Chief Minister Vijay’s government of failing to act.
At an open-air Mass in Santa Cruz de Succhabamba, the pope urged Peruvians not to answer injustice with brutality and spoke of villages emptied by migration.
Protesters in more than 30 towns and cities demanded rent caps and stronger protection from eviction, in the biggest demonstration yet of a movement that has been growing for weeks.
In his first interview since the midterms, the House speaker said he decided ‘pretty quickly after election night’ not to lead House Republicans in the next Congress, days after saying voters ‘made the wrong choice’.
Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh ordered combing operations to continue and security posts to tighten cover, as the Assam Rifles held a Myanmar national with AK-47 rifles near the border.
The government cut diesel prices to end a truckers’ strike, but students marched in Santiago on Friday and polls put the president’s approval at the lowest point of his term.
A device planted in a car exploded near a battery factory in Jaramana on Saturday evening, killing a man and a young girl and wounding at least one other person, Syrian state media said.
