Congo Army spokesman on Wednesday confirmed the death of 22 people after two Ugandan military helicopters crashed in East DRC. Uganda had sent troops to its central African neighbour in December to help fight a violent rebel group known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). “The Uganda People’s Defence...
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A Russian man set himself ablaze to avoid being conscripted into the war with Ukraine. The man went to the Ryazan bus station in the southeastern city of Ryazan and lit himself on fire on Monday, September 26. This comes less than a week after President Vladimir Putin announced the...
A Kenyan lawyer charged at the International Criminal Court with bribing witnesses in the collapsed trial of President William Ruto six years ago, has died, Kenyan media reported on Tuesday. Citizen Television and Standard Newspapers reported that Paul Gicheru was found dead at his home in Nairobi’s Karen area,...
A mass grave has been found in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar. However, with the Taliban pointing the finger at a security official from the former government whom the current rulers assassinated in an attack in 2018. Two spokespeople for the de facto Taliban government told dpa on Tuesday...
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday said the total death toll from this season’s monsoon rain, flood since mid-June has reached 1,638 along with 12,865 injured in Pakistan. According to a report released by the NDMA, 588 children and 332 women were among those who lost their lives...
Tanzanian tourism authorities has said that they were at the final preparations to start a process of introducing cable car on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Mary Masanja, the Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, said the process to introduce the cable car was on the mountain is...
Hundreds of Tunisians protested against poverty, high prices and the shortage of some foodstuff, escalating pressure on the government, as the country suffers an economic and political crisis. Tunisia is struggling to revive its public finances as discontent grows over inflation running at nearly nine per cent and a...
A suspected leader of the Seleka militia groups in the Central African Republic, Mahamat Said Abdel Kani, pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges against him at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prosecutors said Said was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity at the opening of his...
Russian officials on Monday reported that a gunman killed nine people, including five children at a school in Russia before committing suicide. The motive for the shooting in Izhevsk, capital of the Udmurtia region about 970 km (600 miles) east of Moscow, was unclear. The Udmurtia branch of the...
United States National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the U.S. would respond decisively to any Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Sullivan said the United States has spelled out to Moscow the “catastrophic consequences” it would face. His remarks represented the latest American warning following the thinly veiled...
The Archdiocese of Chicago asked three retired priests to stay out of ministry while it investigates allegations of sexual abuse of minors from nearly 50 years ago. News release from the archdiocese on Monday revealed that the allegations against Revs. John J. Rudnik, 87; James E. Flynn, 80; and...
The situation for Sudan’s most vulnerable children is so desperate that half of the most severely malnourished youngsters are expected to die without urgent humanitarian intervention, UN agencies have said. “As we speak today, 650,000 kids are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. If not treated, half of them will...
A boat carrying Chinese nationals sunk off southwestern Cambodia’s sea on Thursday evening, the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia confirmed on Friday. According to the Chinese embassy, they received a notification from the Cambodian Police Department on Thursday night, said that the police found a sunken ship which used to...
Former Chinese Vice Minister of Public Security, Sun Lijun, was on Friday sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for taking bribes, manipulating the stock market and illegally possessing firearms. Sun was also deprived of his political rights for life, and all his personal assets were confiscated, said the...
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Russians to protest the partial military mobilisation announced in the country. “Protest! Fight! Run away! Or become Ukrainian prisoners of war! Those are the options for your survival,” Zelensky said in his daily video address. He said 55,000 Russian soldiers had already...
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi withdrew from a long-planned interview with CNN’s chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, after she declined a last-minute demand to wear a head scarf, the focus of major protests in the cleric-run state . A...
Russia’s defence ministry on Thursday announced that 55 of its servicemen had been returned to Russia. The ministry said this was the largest prisoner exchange deal with Ukraine since the start of the war. In its daily briefing, the ministry said the fighters from Russia’s armed forces and its...
The U.S. military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an air strike in Somalia’s central Hiran region, where the army and allied forces have launched an offensive against the insurgents in the last month. The United States has been carrying...
U.S. President Joe Biden has accused Russia of trying to destroy Ukraine’s right to exist as an independent country. “This war is about extinguishing Ukraine’s right to exist as a state – plain and simple – and Ukraine’s right to exist as a people,’’ Biden said at the United...
A 131-carat white Type IIa diamond was uncovered from the Lulo mine, a 3,000 square km concession in Angola’s Lunda Norte diamond heartland. The country’s state-owned diamond company Endiama announced this on Wednesday. The diamond was found by Australia-based Lucapa Diamond Company, and its partners in Lulo’s Block 19,...