Kremlin forces bombed a village school in eastern Ukraine killing about 60 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said,. The bombing occurred as Russia prepared to mark the Monday anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II. The governor of the Luhansk region said about 90...
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Saudi Arabia’s ageing King Salman has been admitted to hospital for unspecified tests, state media reported Sunday. The kingdom has generally sought to quell speculation over the health of the 86-year-old monarch, who has ruled the top oil exporter and the Arab world’s biggest economy since 2015. He entered...
A powerful explosion due to a suspected gas leak ripped through a luxury hotel in central Havana, killing at least 22 people Friday, according to official tallies. Rescuers pulled four bodies out of the rubble in the early evening as they combed through what remained of the prestigious Saratoga...
A Russian woman, Nadezhda Sayfutdinova has protested against President Vladimir Putin. It was gathered that the woman sewed her mouth to express her anger over the decision of Putin to censor protests against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nadezhda Sayfutdinova, an activist in her 30s, had sewn her own mouth...
Pope Francis, who has suffered from pain in his knee, used a wheelchair for the first time at a public event on Thursday. The 85-year-old was wheeled into the Paul VI hall at the Vatican for a meeting of a Catholic organisation of sisters and nuns, according to an...
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests on Thursday announced a Cameroonian woman, Cecile Ndjabet, as the winner of the 2022 Wangari Maathai Forest Champions Award. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the winner will receive a cash prize of $20,000 and is supported to attend the congress, alongside...
A new case of Ebola has been confirmed in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), bringing the total number of confirmed cases to three, since the 14th Ebola outbreak was declared in the country in late April. This is according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The...
Guinea said Wednesday it would prosecute former president Alpha Conde, who was toppled in a military coup last September, for murder and other crimes committed during his time in office. Conde is among 27 former senior officials who face prosecution for “murder, assassination, and complicity,” according to a document...
The world’s largest bottle of Scotch whisky, with a record-breaking 311 litres of 32-year-old Macallan, will be auctioned this month in the UK. The bottle, known as The Intrepid, is 5-feet 11-inches tall and will be auctioned by an Edinburgh-based auction house. It contains the equivalent of 444 standard...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for more resources to fight terror attacks in Africa’s Sahel as the number of attacks in the region continues to increase. Guterres, who made the call in the capital of Niger, Niamey, on Monday said that the international community should realise that terrorism...
Eight people died, including six children, when a fire ripped through a poor community in the Philippines capital of Manila on Monday and destroyed 80 houses, a fire official said. Another three people were injured in the blaze which started around 5:00 am (2100 GMT) on the second floor...
Police in central China announced the detention of nine people on Sunday over a collapsed building, as increasingly desperate rescuers comb the debris for any survivors. The building, in Changsha city, housed a hotel, apartments and a cinema. It caved in Friday afternoon, leaving a gaping hole in the...
Bitcoin is not a cure-all for Africa’s economic woes, the International Monetary Fund warned Thursday, after the Central African Republic adopted the cryptocurrency as legal tender. The head of the IMF’s African department, Abebe Aemro Selassie, said that a “robust” payment system with financial transparency and a governance framework...
Dozens of people have been injured in fresh clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, referred to by Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The violence on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan left about 42 people wounded,...
U.S. President Joe Biden is set to visit South Korea and Japan in late May, the White House has announced. The visit, set for May 20, to 24, would further deepen ties between our governments, economies, and people, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a statement. Biden...
China has confirmed the first known human case of the H3N8 strain of avian flu, but health authorities say there is a low risk of widespread transmission among people. H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to...
A court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced deposed leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases against her, a source with knowledge of the proceedings said. The Nobel laureate and figurehead of Myanmar’s opposition...
Bulgaria and Poland said Russia was halting delivery of natural gas supplies, marking a major escalation in the face-off between Moscow and Europe over the war in Ukraine. The Bulgarian Energy Ministry said late Tuesday that the Bulgarian natural gas supply company Bulgargaz had received a notification of the...
U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed sharp criticism, on Tuesday, of a warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov regarding a pending World War III and the possible use of nuclear weapons. “You’ve heard us say a number of times that that kind of rhetoric is very dangerous and...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Russia will not succeed in its war against Ukraine. In two months, Russian armed forces had used more than 1,100 rockets, countless aerial bombs and artillery against Ukraine, Zelensky said. Zelensky said this in his nightly video speech published on Telegram late...