Quad Meeting

New PM attends Quad meeting in Japan

From left to right: Anthony Albanese, Joe Biden, Fumio Kishida, Narendra Modi. Source: QUAD Leaders’ Meeting Tokyo 2022. Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has attended the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) meeting in Tokyo along with leaders from the US, Japan, and India. The conference was Albanese’s first order of business, which saw all four…

Rio police

21 people killed in Rio de Janeiro police raid

Residents transported the bodies of several gang members to hospital after the shooting, with many already dead by the time they got there. Source: Shutterstock. Multiple causalities have been reported after a military police raid on the Vila Cruzeiro favela in Rio de Janeiro where authorities and gang leaders clashed. Police conducted the raid in…

Tomb

4,300-year-old tomb of ancient dignitary found in Egypt

Relief depiction of the tomb’s owner on the tomb façade. Source: Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw. Archaeologists made the discovery in the ancient city of Saqqara with this latest find revealing more about the lives of ancient Egyptians. In 2021, researchers from the University of Warsaw were working on the excavation of…

plastic bag

NSW set to ban single-use plastic bags

According to the Australian government every year in Australia approximately 130,000 tonnes of plastic leaks into the marine environment. Source: Freepik. The move will see NSW be the latest and last Australian state to prohibit lightweight plastic bags with the ban to come into effect June 1. According to the state government, 60 per cent…