The power struggle between two generals in Sudan and associated violence escalated dramatically on Saturday and Sunday, with at least dozens of civilians and soldiers killed. It remained unclear who has the upper hand in the power struggle, according to media reports, which said fighting around the Sudanese army’s...
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Pope Francis has come to the defence of the late pope John Paul II who was accused in a recent documentary film of ignoring allegations of abuse by priests and protecting them by transferring them. Francis said that the former pope, who was born Karol Wojtyla in Poland, is...
A 21-year-old member of the U.S. Air Force National Guard suspected of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online will on Friday make his initial appearance before a federal judge in Boston. Jack Douglas Teixeira, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, was arrested by the FBI at his home on Thursday...
Police on Friday, confirmed the death of four people and 11 others rescued while emaciated from occultation underground in the Kenyan coastal town of Malindi. The police said in a security report that they had been tipped off that there were dozens of people starving to death at a...
Former US president, Donald Trump, having been criminally charged in New York, pledged Tuesday to “never drop out” of the 2024 race for the White House, and insisted Joe Biden is not fit to run again. The Republican real estate magnate, facing 34 felony counts in New York over...
The International Monetary Fund(IMF), COP28 President-Designate and UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance have called for measures needed to accelerate climate action and finance. This is contained in a statement issued by the IMF Press Centre, a copy of which was obtained by the News Agency of...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has condemned the “abhorrent” attack which claimed the lives of three members of a British-Israeli family. Lucy Dee, 48, died on Monday from injuries suffered during the terrorist attack in the West Bank on Friday which killed her daughters Rina, 15, and Maia, 20....
Pope Francis is expected to celebrate the Easter Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday morning. Once again, tens of thousands are expected to attend the celebration. Last weekend, around 60,000 people took part in the Palm Sunday Mass, according to the Vatican’s gendarmerie. On Easter...
On Holy Saturday, Pope Francis celebrated the festive Easter Vigil commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Around 8,000 spectators attended the celebration, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency. In his homily, the pope condemned the “rampant injustice” and the “icy winds of war”...
China’s military said on Saturday it launched three days of military exercises around Taiwan, after the leader of the self-ruled island infuriated Beijing by visiting the United States. The exercises are being held “according to plan” to the north, south and east of Taiwan, a statement by the People’s...
Pope Francis celebrated the Good Friday service “The Passion and Death of the Lord” in St Peter’s Basilica but was not going to join the Way of the Cross, as initially planned. He officially presided over the celebration, but the sermon was given by Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, the official...
Rwanda on Friday started the commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi ethnic group that left over one million people dead, with President Paul Kagame calling for self-determination to build a better and more prosperous country through unity, hard work, and perseverance. Kagame made...
Israeli security forces clashed with Palestinians for a second consecutive night at a Jerusalem holy site during a convergence of Islamic and Jewish holidays. Groups of young Palestinians set off fireworks and threw stones at police officers on Wednesday night as they tried to barricade themselves inside the al-Aqsa...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the Taliban ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations (UN), describing it as violation of their inalienable fundamental human rights. Guterres in a statement by his Spokesperson, Mr Stephane Dujarric, said the latest escalation of the de facto authorities’ suppression of...
Actress Kim Sae-ron was on Wednesday sentenced to 20 million won ($15,000 and about N6.9 million) in fines for driving under the influence of alcohol in 2022. The Seoul Central District Court handed out the monetary penalty for Kim, 23, who crashed her car into a guardrail and trees...
U.S. former President, Donald Trump, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024 has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. Trump pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Manhattan Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday in New York, according to media reports....
Donald Trump, the ex-president, and front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024, will appear in court on Tuesday to be fingerprinted, photographed, and formally charged in a watershed moment. This will be coming ahead of next year’s presidential election. Indicted last week, Trump is the first sitting or former...
At least one person has been killed after a passenger train derailed in the Netherlands early on Tuesday. About 30 people were injured, some of them seriously, a spokesperson for the security forces said. Nineteen people were taken to hospital, she said. No information was given about their condition....
British Passport Office workers have began a five-week strike in the increasingly bitter civil service dispute over jobs, pay, pensions and conditions. More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS) at eight sites walked out in an escalation of the long-running row. PCS general secretary, Mark...
Investigators in Brazil have uncovered an international drug smuggling network and confiscated billions of dollar worth of cocaine, according to Europol. Fifteen people were arrested during the operation, Europol announced on Friday in The Hague. Investigators seized 17 tons of cocaine and assets worth about $87 million. The alleged...