(BBC News) British American Tobacco (BAT) is to pay $635 million plus interest to U.S. authorities after a subsidiary admitted selling cigarettes to North Korea in violation of sanctions.
The U.S. authorities said the settlement related to BAT activity in North Korea between 2007 and 2017.
BAT's head Jack Bowles said "we deeply regret the misconduct."
The U.S. has imposed severe sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear and ballistic missile activities.
Tuesday's settlement was between BAT and...
(BBC News) India will overtake China to become the most populous country in the world by the end of this week, the United Nations has said.
India's population is expected to reach 1,425,775,850 people by the end of April, the new data shows.
The Asian nations have accounted for more than a third of the global population for over 70 years.
"China will soon cede its long-held status as the world's most populous country," the UN's Department...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) More than a dozen suspected gang members in Haiti were lynched and their bodies set on fire by residents in the capital Port-au-Prince, police and witnesses said, as the United Nations warned that insecurity in the city had “reached levels comparable to countries in armed conflict.”
Haiti National Police said in a brief statement that officers in the city’s Canape Vert section stopped and searched a minibus for contraband early on Monday...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has lodged a complaint with South Korea’s ambassador to Beijing over “erroneous” remarks by the South Korean president about Taiwan, China’s foreign ministry says.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s remarks were “totally unacceptable,” Sun told the ambassador, and he expressed “strong dissatisfaction,” according to a Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement on Sunday.
The diplomatic dispute between Beijing and Seoul stems from a recent interview with...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Some foreign nationals have begun evacuating from Sudan as the fighting that has engulfed the vast African nation enters its second week.
The onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The airport has been repeatedly targeted, and many residents have been unable to leave their homes or get out of the city to safer areas.
The United Nations and foreign states have urged rival military leaders...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A court in France has sentenced a Canadian academic to life in prison in absentia for a deadly 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue, drawing condemnation from rights advocates in Canada who have long argued the case against Hassan Diab is unjust.
The court on Friday followed French prosecutors’ request for the maximum possible punishment against Diab, now 69 and a resident of the Canadian capital of Ottawa.
The decision was met with...
(BBC News) The US Supreme Court has preserved access to a commonly used abortion pill, ruling the drug can remain available while a legal case continues.
In a split decision, it also rejected restrictions on mifepristone implemented by a lower court, essentially maintaining the status quo.
The future of the drug was called into question after a Texas judge sought to invalidate its long-standing approval.
The case could have wide-ranging implications for abortion access.
It comes after the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) At least 78 people have been killed in a crush at a school in Yemen’s capital Sanaa just days before the Eid al-Fitr festival, according to Houthi officials and media.
The crush happened late on Wednesday as hundreds of people crowded into a school in the Bab al-Yemen district of Sanaa in the hope of getting a charitable donation of about $10 that was being handed out by merchants to mark...
(BBC News) Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket Starship has exploded on its maiden flight.
No one was hurt in the uncrewed test that lifted off from Texas's east coast on Thursday morning local time.
Around three minutes into the flight, the rocket – the largest ever developed – started to tumble out of control and was destroyed, probably by onboard charges.
Musk has said his company will try another launch in a couple of months.
SpaceX...
(Toronto Sun) Elon Musk – the world’s richest man – is having fun goofing on the CBC after the broadcaster announced it will be pausing its Twitter presence on Monday.
“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the accuracy and professionalism of the work they do to allow our independence to be falsely described in this way,” CBC spokesman Leon Mar said in a statement announcing the break.
“Consequently, we will...
