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...
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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,...
U.S President, Joe Biden is due to address the 77th General Debate of the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. In a break with tradition, Biden’s appearance came on the second day of the high-level annual diplomatic event instead of the first, the delay was due to...
The Queen’s funeral service at Westminster Abbey had an average TV audience of more than a 26million people across a range of British networks. Her Majesty’s send-off on Monday followed her record 70 years as the Commonwealth’s head of state and was broadcast simultaneously on a range of networks,...
At least 21 people died in India’s eastern state of Bihar in incidents of lightning amid rains over the past 24 hours. An official at the state’s disaster management authority on Tuesday said that those who died were farmers or workers in agriculture fields who were busy sowing crops...
A Lebanese woman held up a Beirut bank on Wednesday and reportedly walked out with thousands of dollars to fund what she said was hospital treatment for her ill sister. The move and another heist Wednesday come as Lebanese depositors — whose savings have been devalued and trapped in...
Pope Francis underlined the importance of the world’s religions in the struggle for peace, in comments at the opening of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the Kazakh capital Nur-Sultan on Wednesday. It is not appropriate to show “distrust and contempt for religion,” he said....
At least ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia’s Tigray region Wednesday, a hospital official said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a cease-fire. Twin drone attacks hit a residential neighborhood in the regional capital Mekele, killing 10 people...
Gambia has ordered importers and shops to suspend sales of all brands of paracetamol syrup while the government investigates a suspected link between the medicine and the deaths of dozens of young children. Last Thursday, the west African country’s health service said it had launched the probe after a...