The French President charged the young generation to change the African narrative. (photo credit: Channels TV) President Emmanuel Macron is ready to hold talks with Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who has requested he act [Read more…]
Joe Biden and Donald Trump U.S President Donald Trump and his opponent, Joe Biden are scheduled for a face-off in the first of the three presidential debate, happening on 29th of September, 2020. The duo [Read more…]
Transition Mali President Bah Ndaw (L) is seen with during his swearing-in ceremony at the CICB (Centre International de Conferences de Bamako) in Bamako on September 25, 2020. Michele Cattani / AFP Mali’s interim president, [Read more…]
Thieves have stolen a vial containing several drops of blood of the late pope John Paul II from a church in the Italian city of Spoleto, the Vatican news site said Thursday. Police have opened [Read more…]
Chinese President Xi-Jinping China is running hundreds of detention centres in northwest Xinjiang across a network that is much bigger than previously thought, according to research presented Thursday by an Australian think tank. The Australian [Read more…]
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas quarantined himself on Wednesday after one of his security staff tested positive for coronavirus, a ministry spokeswoman said. Maas returned a negative result in a preliminary test carried out on [Read more…]
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will attend an Extraordinary Summit of the Economic Community of West African States the Mali situation in Ghana today. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement said the vice president will [Read more…]
The former president, known as Lula, is accused of accepting 4 million reais (759,000 dollars) worth of bribes disguised as donations, according to a Monday statement from prosecutors in the Brazilian state of Curitiba. Prosecutors say [Read more…]
Farmers of Dong Tam village stand between police during the verdict in their trial over the deaths of three police officers and a farmer during a land dispute in January 9, at a court in [Read more…]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to speak with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday as part of high-level talks between Beijing and the European Union that should reinvigorate stalled talks [Read more…]
The number of destinations Britons can jet off to is constantly changing, with the government now putting Portugal and Hungary on the list of countries subject to quarantine restrictions. People began taking advantage of travel [Read more…]
Six women, one of whom was pregnant, died in a landmine blast in southern Mali, officials said, in the latest violence at the war-torn Sahel state. The women were travelling in an ambulance in the [Read more…]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (image courtesy: AFP) As of next Monday in England, social meetings in groups of more than 6 people inside or outside will be prohibited. This is according to a statement issued [Read more…]
Pope Francis takes off his face mask as he arrives by car to hold a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican on September 9, 2020 during the COVID-19 infection, caused [Read more…]
Indian PM The Indian government, on Wednesday, said it would reopen schools for students in upper grades after more than five months of closure amid a daily rise of 89,706 coronavirus infections. According to India’s Health [Read more…]
File photo of Mafia boss Guiseppe Fanara, 60 | Daily Mail A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard’s finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said [Read more…]
After the departure of the United Kingdom from EU, the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to bring the country together (image courtesy: Getty) EU leader Ursula von der Leyen warned Monday that Britain is [Read more…]
Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Anany (C) and Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Mostafa Waziri (R) look at a 2,500-year-old coffin discovered in Giza, Egypt, on Sept. 6, 2020. (Xinhua photo) [Read more…]
Tunisia police | AFP At least three assailants were shot dead for killing a Tunisian National Guard officer and wounded another on Sunday, the National Guard says. The attack, labelled a “terrorist attack”, took place [Read more…]
Bodies of people killed by the Bangladesh explosion | Al-emrun Garjon The death toll from an explosion-triggered fire at a mosque outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka has risen to 11, police and physicians said on [Read more…]
Daniel Prude A video of how the United States police officers suffocated a 41-year-old black man, Daniel Prude, during an arrest has been released by his family. Reports revealed that Prude suffered brain damage on [Read more…]
Ibrahim Boubacar Keita Former President of Mali Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has been hospitalised after suffering a brief stroke-like attack, a doctor said Wednesday. Keita, 75, who has not been seen in public since his August [Read more…]
US President Donald Trump addresses the Nation from the Oval Office (image courtesy: AFP) United States (US) said Tuesday that it will not work with an international cooperative effort to develop and distribute a COVID-19 [Read more…]
Daphné Benoit, AFP | File photo of Malian army soldiers in Gao, northern Mali on July 24, 2019. Mali’s junta, which seized power in a coup last month, will hold transition talks with political parties [Read more…]
At least 3 soldiers were killed and at least five others were injured in a bomb attack in Gardez, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia Province. This was disclosed by a Paktia Security Command spokesperson [Read more…]
The Al Qusais restaurant where the gas leak occurredImage Credit: Supplied Three people were killed in gas explosions in restaurants in the UAE capital and its business hub Dubai, state media and civil defence said [Read more…]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel. AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday condemned as “shameful” an attempt by protesters angry at coronavirus restrictions to storm parliament, saying they had abused the right to demonstrate peacefully. Several [Read more…]
The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has topped 25 million. United States has the highest tally with nearly six million cases. In Brazil, number of cases are almost 3.9 million, while India has recorded [Read more…]
File Photo of Somali Forces | AA The Somali military have confirmed the rescue of at least 33 children from the captivity of Somali-based al-Qaeda affiliated group al-Shabaab on Friday. The military operation was carried [Read more…]
File photo of an oil vessel | AA The Justice Department of the US confirmed Friday that it seized over one million barrels of Iranian oil from four tankers bound for Venezuela. The Justice Department said [Read more…]
File photo of an oil vessel | AA The Justice Department of the US confirmed Friday that it seized over one million barrels of Iranian oil from four tankers bound for Venezuela. The Justice Department said [Read more…]
José Filomeno Dos Santos The son of Angola’s former president has been jailed for five years for fraud from when he was head of the oil-rich country’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. José Filomeno dos Santos, 42, [Read more…]
Flood. AFP Over 200 people have died or gone missing in China’s summer floods, which also caused more than $25 billion in direct damage. An emergency management official from the Chinese country made this known [Read more…]
Turkey-Migrants At least 40 asylum seekers have been rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard late on Tuesday, August 12, according to security sources. According to Anadolu Agency, the asylum seekers are those who were pushed [Read more…]
Chinese President Xi-Jinping The Chinese Government has announced the lifting of entry restrictions for nationals from at least 36 European countries. This comes months after thousands were left stranded when the country closed its borders [Read more…]
Joe Biden on Tuesday announced that he has chosen Senator Kamala Harris as his running-mate. Harris becomes the first black woman to be named to a major-party U.S. presidential ticket. The 55-year-old might be the [Read more…]
When India entered its first lockdown on March 25 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, it cut hundreds of thousands of sex workers across the country off from their major source of income. [Read more…]
German Chancellor – Angela Merkel Germany has raised concerns over the quality and safety of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine that was announced earlier today. Recall that Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin, announced on Tuesday that that vaccine, [Read more…]
The country’s Defense Ministry had mobilized its forces in February to boost the production of masks in the early stages of the pandemic. The soldiers were deployed to a mask factory in New Taipei City [Read more…]
Image courtesy Getty The first coronavirus vaccine in the world has been registered in Russia, the country’s President Vladimir Putin announced on Tuesday. The vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center, has an official [Read more…]
Hassan Diab | AFP Lebanon’s prime minister, Hassan Diab, and the country’s entire government have resigned following the devastating Beirut explosion. At least 163 people have died as a result of the massive explosion which [Read more…]
File photo of the explosion near the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. STR / AFP The Lebanese army on Monday revealed that it discovered five more bodies in the rubble, [Read more…]
US President Donald Trump’s press conference cut short after just for a couple of minutes by the Secret Service, which escorted him out of the briefing room amid reports of shots fired outside the White [Read more…]
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday declared the resignation of his government, after deadly explosions in capital Beirut that have brought about anti-government protests. Diab said the government has resigned to stand by Lebanese [Read more…]
Jimmy Lai (C), media tycoon and founder of Apple Daily, is escorted by police after he was arrested at his home in Hong Kong, China, Aug. 10, 2020. (EPA Photo)Jimmy Lai (C), media tycoon and [Read more…]
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered the distribution of aid to the border city of Kaesong after they locked the area down last month to fight the coronavirus, state media said Sunday. Authorities [Read more…]
File photo of the explosion near the port in the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, 2020. AFP The wife of Netherlands ambassador to Lebanon Jan Waltmans has died of wounds sustained in the Beirut [Read more…]
Hand Sanitizers | Getty Images At least four persons have died in the United States due to methanol poisoning associated with ingesting alcohol-based hand sanitisers in recent months. The 15 cases, including four deaths, were [Read more…]
File photo from Reuters At least nine people were killed and 14 others injured on Saturday in a suicide car bombing in the Somalian capital, officials said. Salad Mohamed, a senior police officer in Mogadishu [Read more…]
An Air India Express plane, Flight 1344, carrying 191 passengers from Dubai to Kozhikode crashed into a valley on Friday after it overshot the runway at the Calicut International Airport in the southwestern state of [Read more…]
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