A World War II bomb found in Hamburg’s Schanzenviertel District has been defused. Police announced on Twitter early on Tuesday that the area, a shopping district popular with tourists, was safe again. Two partial detonations were necessary for the defusing. “The second partial blast was successful. The bomb has...
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UN on Monday paid tribute to the victims of Malaysia Arlines flight MH17 nine years after the tragic plane crash occurred in eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17/MAS17) was a scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur that was shot down by Russian-controlled forces on July 17,...
United States Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, on Monday expressed regrets over Russia’s decision to suspend participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative. Blinken, in statement, said the Russian government’s continued weaponization of food harms millions of vulnerable people around the world. Since August 2022, the Black Sea Grain...
The death toll from heavy rain in recent days in South Korea rose to 40, while nine others remained missing, relevant authorities said on Monday. A total of 40 people had been found dead in southeastern North Gyeongsang province and central Chungcheong province, according to the central disaster and...
Gunmen killed 10 people and injured another two at a busy junction in the city of Bamenda in Cameroon’s troubled northwest, the regional governor said on Monday. A witness said the attackers arrived in vehicles late on Sunday, ordered people onto the floor with accusations of failing to back...
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa has left 23.4 million people acutely food insecure and 5.1 million children acutely malnourished. It said 36.6 million people have been affected by the drought across the region, calling for “immediate and medium-to-long-term actions” to...
A war between military factions in Sudan is putting at risk the production of staple crops this year, farmers in several states say, threatening to drive the African nation deeper into hunger and poverty. Reuters spoke to more than a dozen people including farmers, experts, and aid workers who...
Russian authorities have described an incident on the Kerch Bridge in the annexed peninsula of Crimea as an act of terrorism. The incident, described earlier by the local administration as an “emergency’’ caused traffic to be halted on the heavily-used bridge. The Ukrainian secret service SBU commented on the...
Russian state television showed a clip on Sunday of Russian President Vladimir Putin mocking European politicians, whom he described as being totally dependent on the United States. “If they are told tomorrow: ‘We have decided to hang you all!’ they will ask only one question, with their eyes down...
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, says warring factions in Sudan should stop targeting aid workers and civilians. “Humanitarians cannot work under the barrel of a gun,” Griffith said in a statement on Saturday, adding that the warring factions must respect international law as the...
In Haiti, for the first time in its history, a change.org petition created in 2022 by Haitian politician Werley Nortreus, currently demands the Haitian government establish a constitutional reform by adding new amendments before the next general elections, according to multiple sources. According to the demand, either the...
UN human rights office on Thursday said at least 87 people including ethnic Masalits were buried in what it described as a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur. The human rights office said it has credible information that the Rapid Support Forces were responsible. However, the RSF officials denied...
Thai authorities on Thursday detained three German nationals and a 27-year-old Pakistani man in connection with the discovery of the dismembered body of a German businessman in Thailand. The Bangkok Post newspaper said the German suspects are a 52-year-old man and two women, aged 52 and 54. According to...
French officials on Tuesday said France will join Britain in supplying Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles, which can travel 250 km (155 miles). This was a move that allows Ukrainian forces to hit Russian troops and supplies deep behind front lines. Emmanuel Macron said he had decided to boost...
Poland’s secret service has arrested another suspected Russian agent who had been spying on military sites and ports, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński wrote on Twitter on Monday. This is the 15th arrest in the investigation into a Russian spy ring in Poland. The prosecutor’s office said the suspect was...
A fire broke out at a nursing home for the elderly in Milan, Italy on Friday, killing at least six and injuring some 80 people, local media reported.Ffire The blaze occurred at the facility in via dei Cinquecento in southern Milan at around 1:20 a.m. local time (2320 GMT...
Former Italian Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani died in Rome on Thursday at the age of 97. Local media reported on Friday that Forlani’s son Alessandro announced his father’s death. Forlani, of the Christian Democracy (DC) party, was born in 1925 in the Adriatic port town of Pesaro. He studied...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The funding crisis affecting the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is likely to leave millions of people stranded without aid as dire hunger crisis grips West Africa. NATIONAL ACCORD recalled that in June, the WFP kicked off a large-scale emergency...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday honoured the memories of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr., late American Presidents and COVID-19 victims as well as those who contributed to the freedom of the country. Biden, in his message to celebrate the 245th Independence Day anniversary with military families at the...
As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people. Victor Hugo Sosa, mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, a town of Indigenous Chontal people in the Tehuantepec...