Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60. Ms. Spencer, who became a veterinarian later in life, died Monday (August 11, 2025) at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, after a yearslong battle with cancer, family spokesperson Sandra Jones said. As Dee, … Read more
Two men died and thousands were forced from their homes on Tuesday as wildfires fuelled by a heatwave scorched southern Europe. Heat alerts were issued in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans, with temperatures expected to soar above 40C. The heatwave is another sign of climate change, which is fuelling longer, more intense and … Read more
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday (August 12, 2025) that Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had scored a “personal victory” by getting invited to talks with Donald Trump on U.S. soil, and that the meeting further delayed sanctions on Moscow. Mr. Zelensky also ruled out withdrawing troops from Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region as part of a … Read more
Mali arrestedChoguel Kokalla Maiga. File | Photo Credit: AFP Mali’s former Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga was arrested Tuesday, according to his entourage and a judicial source, several months after he was dismissed for criticising the country’s ruling junta. Plagued by jihadist and separatist violence, Mali has been led by the military since back-to-back coups … Read more
A Guatemalan court on Tuesday sentenced six former officials to jail for their role in a 2017 orphanage fire that killed 41 adolescent girls. A judge found the accused guilty of crimes ranging from abuse of power to culpable homicide and sentenced them to between six and 25 years behind bars. The girls are believed … Read more
File. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s police detained 21,000 suspects during the 12-day air war between Israel and Iran in June, state media reported on Tuesday. A report by state TV quoted a police spokesperson, Gen. Saeed Montazeralmahdi, as saying people reported the suspects to the authorities. “The arrest of 21,000 suspects during the 12-day … Read more
It took 108 years after the Balfour Declaration, when the British first professed support for the establishment of a Jewish national home “in Palestine”, for London to even commit to recognising Palestinian statehood. Last month, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Britain would recognise the state of Palestine in September, unless Israel ended the … Read more
Some of the 800 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump began arriving in the nation’s capital on Tuesday (August 12, 2025) ramping up after the White House ordered federal forces to take over the city’s police department and reduce crime in what the president called — without substantiation — a lawless city. The … Read more
The latest order is aimed at further tightening the import of jute and products made from Bangladeshi jute. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A day after India imposed a fresh round of port restrictions on a range of jute products, officials here justified the move as necessary because Bangladesh’s subsidies were “killing” local Indian industries. … Read more
Internally Displaced People, who fled from their homes due to security forces launched a targeted operation against militants, walk at a camp set up in a sports complex in Khar, the main town of Bajaur, a northwestern Pakistani district bordering Afghanistan, on August 12, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistani security forces have launched a … Read more
