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...
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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...
The French government said Sunday that hundreds more had been arrested in a fifth night of rioting sparked by the police killing of a 17-year-old, as police deployed reinforcements to flashpoint cities around the country. Protesters, mostly minors, have torched cars, damaged infrastructure and clashed with police in an...
At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured in western India when a bus crashed and caught fire on an expressway early Saturday. The bus was travelling to the city of Pune when it hit a pole and overturned after midnight, causing its diesel...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will celebrate Independence Day this year by welcoming no fewer than 5,500 new citizens in about 180 naturalisation ceremonies between June 30 and July 7. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the naturalisation ceremonies are part of the activities lined...
A seven-year-old boy and his mother both died after falling into the Baltic Sea during a ferry crossing from Poland to Sweden, Polish police said on Friday. The two Polish citizens went overboard while travelling from Gdansk to Karlskrona on Thursday, a police spokesman told Poland’s TVN24 broadcaster. According...
Russia’s most senior generals have dropped out of public view after a failed mercenary mutiny aimed at toppling the top military brass, amid a drive by President Vladimir Putin to reassert his authority. Unconfirmed reports say that at least one person has been detained and is being questioned. Russia’s...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the government would appeal to the UK’s top court after its plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was declared unlawful. The ruling by the court serves as a major blow to the prime minister’s pledge to stop asylum seekers arriving in small...
The West Africa Elders Forum (WAEF) and other international observer missions in Sierra Leone have called for calm in that country. The missions made the call on Wednesday in a joint statement by the heads: Goodluck Jonathan for WAEF; Hailemariam Dasalegn Boshe for African Union; Mohamed Ibn Chambas for...