Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia is planning to blow up the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant in the Kherson region where Ukrainian troops are making advances. “Russia is deliberately creating the basis for a large-scale disaster in the south of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in a video address....
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At least 100 people were killed in Chad on Thursday as thousands of people defied a protest ban and took to the streets of the capital to denounce the transitional military government’s failure to turn power over to civilian rule. Police used tear gas to break up the demonstration...
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday it was important that Britain found “stability as soon as possible”, as he commented on the resignation of British Prime Minister Liz Truss. “We want, above all else, stability,” Macron told reporters as he arrived at a European Union summit in Brussels....
Liz Truss has announced her resignation as British prime minister after a chaotic 44 days in office during which she lost the confidence of her Conservative Party members of parliament (MPs) and the public and oversaw economic turbulence. She is set to become the shortest-serving prime minister in history...
North Korea’s military, on Wednesday, said it fired artillery shots overnight into maritime buffer zones near the inter-Korean border as a serious warning over South Korea’s ongoing military drills. In a statement, a spokesman for the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) said the North’s military launched...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said he was introducing martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed as its own territory. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin also instructed the government to set up a special coordinating council under Prime Minister...
More than half of British voters think Liz Truss should resign as prime minister and 80 per cent blame the government for the rising cost of living, a new poll has found. In the poll conducted over the weekend, 53 per cent of people told Ipsos that Truss should...
Police officers currently see cybercrime and financial crimes as the biggest threats worldwide, according to a report by the international policing organisation, Interpol. As the Lyon-based agency said it also expects these crimes to increase significantly in the coming years. The report said that with 195 member countries, Interpol...
French cement giant Lafarge SA was slapped with a $778 million fine Tuesday for making millions in payments to the Islamic State and another jihadist group to build its business in Syria. The US Justice Department said the company and its Syrian subsidiary actively sought the Islamic State (IS)...
Authorities in Cameroon’s Far North region on Tuesday declared an outbreak of cholera after recording at least 10 deaths arising from the disease. A total of 113 suspected cases of cholera had been recorded as of Monday, the official media outlet CRTV reported, quoting the region’s Governor Midjiyawa Bakari...
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday warned that thousands of severely malnourished boys and girls in Somalia were at risk of dying, urging donors to step up support amid historic drought. UNICEF’s spokesperson, James Elder told, journalists in Geneva that without greater action and investment, “we are facing the...
A helicopter carrying pilgrims to Kedarnath in India’s Himalayan region crashed on Tuesday, killing all six on board, a police official said. Two pilots and four pilgrims died in the crash in the northern state of Uttarakhand, its police chief, Ashok Kumar, told Reuters by telephone, adding that a...
A Russian missile struck an apartment building in the Ukrainian port of Mykolaiv early on Tuesday. A Reuters witness said, the latest strike on a city hours after the United States warned that it would hold Russia accountable for war crimes. The missile, which caused one of three explosions...
Above-average rainfall and devastating flooding across West and Central Africa has affected five million people in 19 countries across the region, claiming hundreds of lives, upending livelihoods, displacing tens of thousands from their homes and decimating over a million hectares of cropland – in a region already in the...
Workers including teachers in 15 Ghanaian public universities on Monday declared a strike over their allowance disputes with the government. Four labor unions of public universities said in a statement that the decision followed the variation of their conditions of service by the government. According to them, their leadership...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned the new Russian missile and drone attacks as terror against the civilian population. The country was attacked during the night and throughout the morning, the head of state announced on Monday. The president said an inhabited building was hit in the capital. “The...
U.S. billionaire and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates on Monday said he was ready to have a meeting with the Taliban if it would help eradicate poliomyelitis in Afghanistan. “Honestly, I don’t know if there’s some sensitivity around that. I would do pretty much anything to help the polio campaign,...
The war in Ukraine and rising inflation has pushed an addition four million children across eastern Europe and Central Asia into poverty. The United Nations Children’s agency UNICEF said in a report released on Monday. The figure, representing a 19 per cent increase since 2021, showed that children were...
Jihadists killed at least three soldiers and eight civilian auxiliaries in an attack Saturday in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, security sources told AFP. The soldiers, who were patrolling with the auxiliaries, were caught in an ambush in the district of Bouroum, said one source. Another source, confirming the attack,...
Russia said two gunmen from an ex-Soviet state on Saturday attacked a military training ground killing 11 people who had volunteered to fight in Ukraine and wounding 15 others. Russia’s defence ministry said the attack in the Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, happened during a firearms training session. Russia...