Sarit, an 18-year-old girl from the Druze town of Kisra-Sumei, was threatened for years before her murder due to her sexual orientation. Haifa District Attorney’s office filed an indictment in Haifa District Court on Sunday against the individuals suspected of having murdered Sarit Ahmad on June 9, 2023....
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Russian investigators said genetic tests showed that the Wagner chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief mutiny against Moscow’s military leadership, was among the victims of a plane crash last week. The Russian Investigative Committee said Sunday that it confirmed that Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder and head of the...
President Bola Tinubu has tasked the U.S. to collaborate with African countries in defending its democracies against anti-democratic forces within and outside the continent in order to improve on its peoples living standard. Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement,...
Niger’s military administration on Friday gave the German, US and Nigerian ambassadors 48 hours to leave the country, reports Anadolu Agency. “In reaction to German Ambassador Olivier Schnakenberg’s refusal to reply to an invitation by the ministry for a discussion on Friday August 25 at 11.00 a.m., and...
The junta in Niger, which seized power in a military coup on July 26, has formed a military alliance with the neighbouring countries of Burkina Faso and Mali. The rulers of Burkina Faso and Mali also seized power in coups. The three countries’ foreign ministers made a joint announcement...
Libyan Prime Minister Abdul-Hamed Dbeibah has announced the arrest of a senior Islamic State (IS) member responsible for deadly attacks in capital Tripoli in 2018. The country’s security forces on Tuesday afternoon arrested an IS leader, who was involved in planning and leading suicide operations targeting the headquarters...
The U.S. has approved a 500-million dollar potential sale of weapons to Taiwan to help boost the island’s airspace defence capability. The U.S. Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said in a Wednesday statement that the sale would include F-16 Infrared Search and Track (IRST) systems and related equipment....
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutors are accusing a former Central African Republic militia leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in proceedings that began in The Hague on Tuesday. Maxime Jeoffroy said to have played a central role in the violence carried out between 2013 and 2014...
Retired Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the ECOWAS envoy on the Niger Republic crisis, said discussions with the military junta was fruitful on the way forward. He said this on Monday in Abuja after submitting a report on their visit to Niamey to President Bola Tinubu, who is the...
The BRICS alliance of five emerging economies meets in South Africa starting Tuesday at a summit that is expected to focus on the group’s expansion. The alliance currently includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. It now aims to become “BRICS plus” and take on numerous new members....
Somalia has banned TikTok app Telegram and online-betting website 1XBet to limit the spread of indecent content and propaganda, its communications minister said. “The minister of communications orders internet companies to stop the aforementioned applications, which terrorists and immoral groups use to spread constant horrific images and misinformation...
North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un has overseen the launch of strategic cruise missiles as part of a drill, state-controlled media reported on Monday. Kim watched seamen staging the drill during a visit to a naval unit of the Korean People’s Army (KPA), the official Korean Central News...
The Police in Burkina Faso have killed 40 Islamist fighters, the army said on Sunday. The terrorists ambushed a police reconnaissance mission in Koulpelogo province in the north-east of the country on Saturday, the military said. Five police officers were also killed during the attack. Armed groups...
A former member of the House of Representatives, Robinson Uwak, on Sunday, called on the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its chairman, President Bola Tinubu to suspend the planned invasion of Niger Republic. Uwak, in a statement in Abuja, said there was need to sustain the...
The leader of the mutineers who seized power in Niger, Gen. Abdourahamane Tchiani, said on Saturday that his country does not want war, but will be ready to defend itself if necessary. “Neither the army nor the people of Niger want war, but we will resist any manifestation...
The leader of the Niger junta, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, says the army will hand over power to civilian government within the next three years. Gen. Tchiani stated this in a televised broadcast on Saturday night. He spoke after meeting with a delegation of the Economic Community...
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger have met to discuss a joint defence strategy in response to the announcement by the West African regional bloc ECOWAS military intervention in the coup. Military staff of the three countries met in the Nigerien capital Niamey to decide on “concrete measures” in case...
China has conducted further military exercises near Taiwan, in response to a recent stopover by the Taiwanese vice president in the United States on a state trip. The Chinese military stated in a declaration on Saturday that these exercises were a “serious warning” to the “separatists” in Taiwan who...
UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Friday paid tribute to 22 staff members killed in the bombing of its headquarters in Iraq 20 years ago, one of the darkest days in the organisation’s history. A wreath-laying ceremony was held at the UN headquarters in New York as part of...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that a spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017. Across the country, at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera cases and 230 deaths...