Fifty years after a kidnapping during the 1972 Munich Olympics ended in bloodshed, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asked the victims’ families for forgiveness. “I ask you, as the Head of State of this country and on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, for your forgiveness for the lack...
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Ukraine will receive another 500 million euros (496.3 million dollars) in grants from the European Union to provide housing and education to people internally displaced by the war and returnees. The European Commission announced on Monday that the financial aid, some of which would also support Ukraine’s agricultural sector,...
Britain’s Conservative party Monday announced Liz Truss as its new leader to succeed Prime Minister Boris Johnson and confront Britain’s deepest economic crisis in decades. The foreign secretary comfortably beat her rival, former finance minister Rishi Sunak, by about 57 to 43 percent after a gruelling summer-long contest decided...
he Supreme Court of Kenya on Monday dismissed a petition challenging William Ruto as president-elect, paving the way for his swearing-in next week in line with the country’s constitution. A seven-judge bench unanimously agreed that Ruto met the constitutional threshold to be declared the east African nation’s fifth president,...
Kenya’s Supreme Court is set to decide on whether to uphold or nullify the result of last month’s presidential election. A ruling anxiously awaited in a country scarred by previous bouts of poll-related violence. The seven-member court said it would deliver its ruling at 12 p.m. local time (0900...
Myanmar’s deposed former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi was found guilty of electoral fraud on Friday and sentenced to three years in jail with hard labour. According to a source familiar with the proceedings, the nobel laureate and figurehead of Myanmar’s opposition to decades of military rule has been...
Seven people were killed and 23 injured as tribal violence flared in Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state, the state’s security committee said, just weeks after major clashes. In mid-July, at least 105 people were killed and thousands displaced in fighting over land between the Hausa and Funj tribes as...
Over 40 per cent of Americans say a U.S. civil war is likely to happen within a decade as political polarization and street violence grow, local media reports. According to the survey conducted by the Britain-based data company ‘YouGov’ and an Economist, around 43 per cent of Americans believe...
Mourners gathered outside Kensington Palace in London on Wednesday to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Princess Diana with many wondering what could have been if she were still alive. Many focused on the recent rift between her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, who recently announced...
The capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has been hit by an air strike near a hospital which had received casualties less than a week after fighting shattered a four-month ceasefire. Kibrom Gebreselassie, the chief executive of Ayder General Hospital, tweeted that an area near Mekelle General Hospital had...
Madagascar police killed 19 people and injured 21 when they opened fire on Monday on a crowd trying to storm a police station to seek revenge against suspected criminals, police said on Tuesday. The shooting took place in the town of Ikongo, about 330 km (205 miles) southeast of...
Angola’s main opposition party has submitted a legal complaint challenging the electoral commission’s finding that the governing party won last week’s election, a letter seen by Reuters shows. In a separate statement on Tuesday, the opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), said it...
The United Nations has issued a flash appeal for 160 million dollars to help Pakistan tackle devastating floods that had killed more than 1,100 people since mid-June. Officials said on Tuesday that the pledge drive was launched in Geneva and the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, simultaneously. “United Nations is issuing...
The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), Angola’s ruling party, was declared winner of the 2022 general elections held last week. The party won with 51.17 per cent of the total votes cast, the National Electoral Commission (CNE) announced. The nation’s largest opposition party, the National Union...
Gov. Simon Lalong of Plateau and Miss Lyop Malo, winner of the Best for business plan in West Africa” at the Liventis Foundation Business Competition, during her visit to the governor. A young agri-preneur, Miss Lyop Malo, has emerged winner of the “Best for business plan in West Africa”...
The United Nations (UN) officials said its set to launch a flash appeal on Tuesday to help Pakistan tackle devastating floods that have killed more than 1,100 people so far. The global body said it was seeking 161 million dollars to provide critical food and cash assistance to victims....
Turkey on Monday detained eight Islamic State (IS) suspects in police raids in the Black Sea province of Samsun, local media reported. Samsun police detained one Syrian and seven Iraqi nationals in the district of Ilkadim and seized digital materials belonging to them. The Turkish government designated the IS...
Charred cars and buildings pockmarked by bullets scarred Libya’s capital on Sunday, the day after intense fighting killed 32 people yet appeared to leave the Tripoli government more firmly entrenched. Battles raged across the city throughout Saturday as forces aligned with the parliament-backed administration of Fathi Bashagha failed to...
Libya’s worst fighting for two years suddenly hit the capital, Tripoli, on Saturday. This explains what led to the violence, why it matters, and how things may play out. Libya’s fault lines surfaced as local groups took different positions in the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi. An...
About 28 people died and 48 others injured in heavy monsoon rain-triggered flash floods and other rain-related incidents in the last 24 hours in Pakistan. The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said at least 11 children and three women were among those who lost their lives in different rain-related...