A vessel is believed to have sunk in the Red Sea a week after the ship was attacked by Yemen’s Houthi Rebels, UK authorities have said. Maritime debris and oil have been sighted in the vessel’s last reported location in the Red Sea. The United Kingdom Maritime Trade...
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No fewer than 8 people have died due to fire outbreak in a hospital in Iran. The fire broke out in a hospital in the city of Rasht near the Caspian Sea in the north of the country, the state news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. According to...
A Benin Republic court has jailed three Nigeriens who were detained last week at a port, judicial sources said on Friday, as diplomatic tensions deepen between the two West African neighbours. Ties between Benin and Niger have been strained since last year’s coup that ousted Nigerien President Mohammed...
A police officer shot and injured a magistrate at a court in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Thursday, before being killed in a shootout with other officers, the Judiciary said. Monica Kivuti, a magistrate at the Makadara Law Courts, was shot after rejecting the bond request for the police officer’s...
Judith Suminwa Tuluka, the first female prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has assumed office after she was sworn in on Wednesday. Before the National Assembly, the lower house of the DRC parliament, Tuluka and the other 54 new government members officially took office...
U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken met the Israeli President, Isaac Herzog on Tuesday to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The negotiation was part of the efforts by the U.S. Qatar and Egypt on Gaza, the meeting was delayed for months. Antony Blinken’s trip to the...
The pro-Iranian Hezbollah movement has fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at targets in northern Israel. The Israeli military confirmed on Tuesday that it had recorded about 50 missiles fired from Lebanon and there were no injuries from the impacts. In a statement on Tuesday, Hezbollah said that “in...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged the Middle Eastern governments to pressure Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement to accept U.S. President Joe Biden proposal to end the war in Gaza. “My message to governments throughout the region and people throughout the region: If you want a ceasefire, press...
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, following defeat of his party in 2024 European Parliament (EP) elections, according to local media report. “I have decided to give you back the choice of your parliamentary future through the vote. I am therefore dissolving...
At least 25 people were killed during Islamist terrorist attacks on four army bases in central Somalia on Saturday, officials confirmed. Somali army spokesman Abukar Mohamed Hassan said that the Al-Shabaab group carried out “a massive assault” from different directions, in the Eldheer district, with suicide bombers and...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the French parliament that Europe was a continent at war and that Russia would not stop its aggression at the borders of his country. “We live in a time when Europe is no longer a continent of peace, unfortunately,” Zelensky said in an...
Commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, has threatened to retaliate after an Israeli airstrike near Aleppo, Syria killed its member. Iran’s state news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. Salami offered condolences over the death of Saeed Abyar, who was identified as a “military adviser’’...
U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky while the pair are in France, the White House said. Biden will discuss with Zelensky the “state of play in Ukraine, and how we can continue and deepen our support for Ukraine,” White House National Security Advisor,...
Former US president Donald Trump vowed on Friday to appeal his criminal conviction for falsifying business records, saying that his legal team had several grounds to challenge the verdict handed down by a New York jury. “We’re going to be appealing this scam… on many different things,”...
US rapper, Nicki Minaj has been detained at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on suspicion of possessing soft drugs, Dutch media had reported Saturday. The singer was due to perform a show in Britain later Saturday and posted images on social media of her being questioned by officials. Police confirmed...
Thousands of Iranians turned out to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi in the city of Tabriz on Tuesday after he was killed in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan border at the weekend along with his foreign minister and seven others. State TV broadcast live images of mourners, many...
A lightning strike has injured ten people in the eastern German city of Dresden with four of whom sustained severe injuries. According to a fire service spokesman, two men, aged 27 and 30, were successfully resuscitated after experiencing cardiac arrest. Amid severe weather conditions and a passing thunderstorm...
South Africa’s highest Court on Monday ruled that former President Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week’s general election. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma’s sentence of more than 12 months in prison has disqualified him and made him ineligible to stand. His former party,...
A helicopter in a convoy carrying Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has allegedly crashed in east Azerbaijan, according to several media reports on Sunday. Rescuers are trying to reach the site of the “incident”, state television reported on Sunday. There was no immediate elaboration on what happened to the helicopter,...
Months after exiting the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have finalised plans to form a new confederation, the Confederation of the Alliance of Sahel States (AES ), marking a geopolitical shift in the region. This move showed their departure from their former...