By ESTHER ALEXANDER, Abuja – The Palestinian authority has issued a urgent appeal to the international community to intervene and pressure Israel to halt its systematic water deprivation policy, which is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. A statement issued on Thursday by...
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Britain’s king and queen have arrived at the Senedd in Cardiff to mark 25 years of Welsh devolution. It is the first visit by Charles to the Welsh Parliament since September 2022, when he received a motion of condolence after the death of the Queen. As they arrived,...
Kenyan President William Ruto on Tuesday announced that a national multispectral forum will hold July 15, to address issues raised by the country’s youth that sparked protests across the country. Ruto said the proposed six-day forum will deliberate on issues including employment, tax policies, national debt, representation and...
US President Joe Biden has condemned a wave of Russian missile strikes in Ukraine as a “horrific reminder of Russia’s brutality”, and vowed to strengthen Kyiv’s air defenses. At least 38 people were killed and 190 injured across the country, including some at a children’s hospital in the...
The Ministry of National Defense of Niger and the U.S. Department of Defense announced on Monday the end of the first phase of the withdrawal of U.S. forces and equipment from Nigerien territory. The announcement was made at the signing ceremony of documents transferring American rights to the...
At least 20 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in waves of Russian missile attacks across Ukraine, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Monday. Kiev was among the cities worst impacted with seven dead and at least nine injured, the city administration said. Kryvyi Rih...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has rejected Russia’s claims that there had been an air defence error causing a deadly strike on a children’s hospital in Kiev that caused extensive destruction on Monday. “What cynicism the bastards in the Kremlin have shown, that it was allegedly Ukrainian air defence and...
French President, Emmanuel Macron is refusing to accept Prime Minister Gabriel Attal’s resignation following the surprising outcome of the snap parliamentary elections in France, the Élysée Palace announced on Monday. Macron has asked Attal to remain prime minister for the time being in order to ensure the country’s...
Polling stations across the United Kingdom are opened on Thursday morning, with opinion polls suggesting the centre-left Labour party on course to secure a big majority. Labour is expected to secure majority in the House of Commons and form a new government, after 14 years in opposition. Millions...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has insisted that predictions of a Conservative defeat are not going to stop him after the likelihood of his return to Downing Street. He said this was put at less than “lightning striking twice in the same place” by a polling expert. He...
Top Democrats on Sunday ruled out the possibility of replacing President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee after a feeble debate performance and called on party members to focus instead on the consequences of a second Donald Trump presidency. After days of hand-wringing about Biden’s poor night on...
The Ukrainian authorities on Monday reported that it averted a coup attempt in Ukraine. The Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrayiny (SBU) intelligence service and prosecutors had said that an anonymous group had attempted to mount “provocations’’ in Kiev on Sunday, when the country marks Constitution Day, An anonymous report said...
About 50 Palestinian prisoners arrested during the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine were released on Monday, including the director of Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli sources confirmed. An Israeli security official stated that the prisoners were released from various Israeli facilities, including the military detention camp of Sde...
After their stunning success in forcing the government to shelve 2.7 billion dollars in tax hikes, young Kenyan activists are setting their sights higher, taking aim at deeply ingrained corruption and misgovernance. Protesters say the finance bill President William Ruto abandon on Wednesday was only a symptom of...
At least 3 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, a war monitor reported on Thursday. It added that 11 others were wounded as a result of shrapnel that fell on houses from a Syrian air defence missile that...
Prisons are expected to reach full capacity within days, warned the Prison Governors Association (PGA) in England and Wales on Tuesday. “As this happens, courts and the police will no longer be able to freely and lawfully detain offenders,” said PGA in an open letter to political leaders in...
An Israeli airstrike in the northern Gaza Strip killed at least 13 people, Palestinian media in the territory reported on Tuesday. The Israeli army said two buildings in which militants were hiding had been hit on Monday night in the al-Shati and Daraj Tuffah refugee neighbourhoods. Among those...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Tuggar has reiterated its move to deepen bilateral ties between Nigeria and China on grounds of mutual respect and shared developmental goals. Tuggar disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja by Alkasim Abdulkadir, Special Assistant on Media and Communication to the...
Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), took oath as the nation’s president for the next five years on Wednesday at Pretoria, the administrative capital. Ramaphosa, 71, was re-elected as South African president by the National Assembly on June 14 with 283 votes against...
A U.S. soldier detained in Russia in early May has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison by a court in Vladivostok for theft and death threats. According to local media reports on Wednesday, the court found that the man had stolen 10,000 rubles (120...