A daytime ban on outdoor work in the summer months went into effect in Qatar on Wednesday. This is part of efforts to protect migrant labourers from the heat as the host of the 2022 FIFA World Cup seeks to improve its human rights record before the event. Qatar...
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Nepalese officials on Tuesday confirmed that all the 22 people on board the plane that crashed on May 29 were killed after rescuers found and recovered the final body from the wreckage. Spokesperson for Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said that they are waiting for favourable weather to transport...
Twenty-one bodies have been recovered from the crash site of a Nepali passenger plane in a remote hilly area in Nepal’s Mustang district, a local government official said on Monday. “Twenty-one dead bodies have been recovered while one remains missing,” Netra Prasad Sharma, chief district official of Mustang, told...
The governor of the state of Pernambuco in Brazil on Monday confirmed the death toll in Brazil’s north-east to have reached 84 after heavy rains caused landslides. Paulo Camara said “we know that aid is very difficult in the first hours. It is now a matter of acting effectively....
The world’s oldest man has revealed the habits he keeps that he believes helped him to live up to 113. Juan Vicente Perez Mora, from Venezuela, was born before World War Two on 27 May, 1909. He went on to marry Ediofina del Rosario García who died in 1997...
The U.S Justice Department says it has secured the forfeiture of a mansion bought by former Gambian president Yahya Jammeh for $3.5m (£2.7m) with alleged corruption proceeds. The property in Potomac, Maryland, is said to have been acquired through a trust set up by his wife, Zineb Jammeh. It...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Africa needs an annual investment of 32 to 40 billion dollars along the energy value chain to achieve universal access for electricity by 2030. The AfDB’s African Economic Outlook 2022 unveiled at the Bank’s Annual Meetings on Thursday in Accra, Ghana, said the...
Eleven newborn babies have died in a hospital fire in the western city of Tivaouane in Senegal, the country’s president has said. The fire at Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh Hospital was in the maternity department, President Macky Sall tweeted. Initial reports suggest the fire was caused by a...
Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi’s twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day. Weakened by hunger, their mother gave birth to the twins a month early, eight weeks after their exhausted family walked into a...
An 18-year-old gunman has killed 14 children and a teacher at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday, according to the state’s governor, in the nation’s deadliest school shooting in years. The attack in Uvalde, Texas — a small community about an hour from the Mexican border — is...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of Russia of trying to destroy Ukraine’s identity. According to Biden, this is as witnessed by Russian bombardments of civilian targets such as schools, hospitals, daycare centres and museums. “I believe what Putin is attempting to do is to...
The United States (U.S.) would defend Taiwan militarily if it was attacked, U.S. President Joe Biden said at a news conference in Japan. Biden added that China had no right to seize the island by force. Asked by a journalist whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily in the...
Five people, including four members of the same family, were killed in a tourist plane crash in the French Alps on Saturday, rescue services said. The accident happened in the afternoon shortly after take-off from the Versoud airfield near Grenoble in southeast France, for what should have been a...
Former US President Donald Trump has paid a $110,000 fine for obstructing a major tax evasion investigation led since 2019 by New York state authorities, a spokesperson announced Friday. Trump was ordered April 25 by New York state’s Supreme Court to pay $10,000 a day for as long as...
Russia on Saturday stopped providing natural gas to neighbouring Finland, which has angered Moscow by applying for NATO membership after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in rubles. Following Russia’s February 24 invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has asked clients from “unfriendly countries” — including EU member states...
A leading Sudanese politician has been arrested as protests raged in the capital Khartoum for the seventh month against military rule. The military deployed tear gas and heavy security force to quell the protests. A military coup in October effectively ended a 2019 power-sharing deal between generals, who overthrew...
Russia has suspended senior commanders who are considered to have performed poorly during the early stages of the Ukraine invasion, according to British intelligence. Vladimir Putin is said to have suspended two of his military leaders in relation to the failure to capture second city Kharkiv as well as...
North Korea could carry out new missile tests during U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to Asia, the White House said. “Our intelligence does reflect the genuine possibility that there will be either a further missile tests – including a long-range missile test or a nuclear test or, frankly,...
Despite battling a wave of suspected COVID-19 infections, North Korea appears to be preparing to test an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The testing comes ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s first trip to South Korea, South Korean and U.S. officials said. “An ICBM test appeared imminent. “If there is...
Ukraine will receive another loan of 150 million euros (158 million U.S. dollars) from Germany’s state development bank KfW, the government in Kiev announced. The money would be used to support citizens and rebuild infrastructure, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said in a statement on the government’s official website...