An Indian army Cheetah helicopter has crashed in the state of Arunachal Pradesh, leaving one pilot killed and another one injured, media reported on Wednesday. The helicopter with two pilots on board crashed near the village of Tawanga at about 04:30 GMT, the Indian news agency ANI reported, citing...
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At least 33 minors were among those killed in a stampede at an Indonesian football stadium at the weekend, an official confirmed on Tuesday. The youngest identified so far out of the 125 people killed was a toddler about three or four years old, said Nahar, a deputy at...
Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas annexed by Russia and threatening its troops’ supply lines. Making their biggest breakthrough in the south since the war began, Ukrainian forces...
Liberian authorities on Monday said they had seized some $100 million worth of cocaine, with help from the United States’ international narcotics agency. Liberian Justice Minister Musa Dean told reporters the national Drug Enforcement Agency, with help from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, had made...
Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN on Monday, accusing the cable television news network of defamation and seeking $475 million in punitive damages. Trump, in the lawsuit filed in a US District Court in Florida, accused CNN of waging a campaign of “libel and slander” against him because...
The Russian lower house of parliament ratified the incorporation of four occupied Ukrainian regions on Monday and fast-tracked the relevant legislation as the West rallied further to Kiev’s aid. More than 400 deputies in the Russian Duma, in a move unrecognised by most of the international community, voted unanimously...
Five young people were killed in the Slovak capital Bratislava when a car crashed into a group of university students at a bus stop, police said on Monday. The 60-year-old driver has been arrested following the incident late on Sunday. “Four people died immediately on the spot, another young...
Burkina Faso’s junta leader agreed to step down on Sunday, religious and community leaders said, two days after army officers announced his ouster in a coup that sparked internal unrest and international condemnation. Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba “himself offered his resignation in order to avoid confrontations with serious human...
Burkina Faso’s self-declared military leader Captain Ibrahim Traore said on Sunday that the situation was under control, urging people to refrain from acts of vandalism targeting the French embassy, a statement read on national television said. The West African nation remained on edge after Traore accused President Paul-Henri Damiba...
Security forces fired tear gas at dozens of rock-throwing protesters outside the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital on Sunday, according to an AFP journalist, as unrest simmered in the West African country following its second coup this year. Supporters of Burkina’s newest putsch leader had gathered outside the...
Ukrainian troops said they had retaken the key bastion of Lyman in occupied eastern Ukraine, a stinging defeat that prompted a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to call for the possible use of low-grade nuclear weapons. The capture came just a day after Putin proclaimed the annexation...
Some tourism stakeholders have called on African leaders to put measures in place in boosting seamless travels across the West African region. The stakeholders spoke during the launch of Destination West Africa Project (DWAP) in Lagos on Friday. DWAP focuses on improving intra-Africa travel as well as tourism and...
Shots rang out in Burkina Faso’s capital on Saturday and heavily armed security forces drove through the centre in a convoy, a day after President Paul-Henri Damiba was ousted in the second coup the West African country has seen this year. It was not immediately clear what was happening...
Burkina Faso’s army captain, Ibrahim Traore, announced Friday night that the army had seized power and ousted military leader Paul Henri Damiba, who himself had taken power in a coup only eight months ago. Traore said in a statement that a group of officers who helped Damiba seize power...
Military officers have announced the removal from office of Burkina Faso’s junta leader on Friday. The dismissal of Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, who came to power in a coup last January, was announced in a statement read out on national television. The rebelling military also announced the closure of...
Shots rang out before dawn on Friday around Burkina Faso’s presidential palace and headquarters of the military junta, which itself seized power in a coup last January, witnesses told AFP. The government said the developing situation was linked to an “internal crisis in the army”, after AFP journalists saw...
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to annex four Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia — at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin. He then joined hands with the Moscow-installed heads of the regions on a stage in front of the Russian elite and...
National authorities in the European Union can compel airlines to compensate passengers for long delays, a top EU court ruled on Thursday. This applies to national authorities responsible for passenger rights where the EU member state concerned “has granted that body power to that effect,” the bloc’s highest court...
A British passenger has been found dead by his wife on board a flight from the UK to Cyprus. The tourist, 63, lost consciousness on the flight to the city of Paphos on the southwest coast of the Mediterranean island, according to Mail Online. He never regained his consciousness and...
A Zimbabwean woman who lied about a man having unlawful carnal knowledge of her has confessed, stating that she was under pressure. The man identified as Simbarashe Chadiwa was handed a 20-year sentence for the r#pe of a 10-year old minor. Chadiwa who has been in prison for eight...