Russian President Vladimir Putin was sworn in for his fifth term in Moscow on Tuesday, two months after being re-elected in a vote that was widely...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Monday informed mediators Qatar and Egypt that his Palestinian militant group had accepted their proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza after...
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on Monday commenced the evacuation of the city of Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, ahead of an expected military operation in the...
Israel ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close Sunday, escalating a long-running feud between the broadcaster and Prime Minister Benjamin...
A driver died after crashing a car into the exterior gate of the White House late Saturday, the US Secret Service said. “Shortly before 10:30pm a...
New Russian military advisors and military equipment have arrived in Niger, according to state television in the African country that wants US forces to leave. A...
A federal jury in Camden, New Jersey, has convicted a Nigerian couple of forced labour in the United States and other related crimes with possible 20...
Raging floods and mudslides have killed at least 55 people in southern Brazil and forced nearly 70,000 to flee their homes, the country’s civil defence agency...
Russia has added Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to its list of wanted criminals, a move Kyiv dismissed as a sign of Moscow’s “desperation”. Zelensky’s name appeared...
An Israeli military incursion into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah could lead to a “bloodbath”, the World Health Organization warned Friday, announcing contingency plans. Israeli Prime...
Pro-Palestinian students have gathered in protest at universities across the UK following violent demonstrations at campuses in the U.S. Students in Leeds, Newcastle and Bristol set...
Hamas will respond to an Israeli truce proposal for Gaza “within a very short period”, an official with the Palestinian militant group said Wednesday, stressing that...
The co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer, Binance, Changpeng Zhao, has been sentenced to four months in prison in the United States for flouting money laundering...
At least 42 people were killed when a dam burst in a town north of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the local governor told AFP on Monday....
Egypt’s foreign minister said he was “hopeful” about a new proposal for a truce in Gaza as a Hamas delegation was due in Cairo for talks...
Dubai announced on Sunday that work had begun on a new terminal at Al Maktoum International Airport, which the Gulf emirate’s ruler said will become “the...
The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and more than a dozen other countries called in a joint statement Thursday for Hamas to release the...
At least 155 people have died in Tanzania as torrential rains linked to El Nino triggered flooding and landslides, Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said Thursday. Tanzania...
The United States will send a delegation to Niger on Thursday to begin face-to-face talks with officials in Niamey on withdrawing the more than 1,000 American...
Israeli forces are carrying out “offensive action” across southern Lebanon, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Wednesday without specifying whether ground troops had crossed the border. “Many...
Former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has hailed Iran for launching over 300 drones and missiles against Israel, emphasising that the action was in the...
The Israeli military said on Monday the chief of its intelligence directorate has resigned after taking responsibility for failures leading to the unprecedented October 7 attack...
Hundreds protested on Sunday against the US troops’ presence in military-ruled Niger where a delegation from Washington is expected within days to arrange an orderly withdrawal....
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday condemned the US House of Representatives’ approval of billions of dollars in new military aid to Israel, much of which...
Iran’s foreign minister has dismissed the reported Israeli retaliation for an unprecedented Iranian strike and said Tehran would not respond unless Iranian “interests” were targeted. On...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Thursday warned that Tehran would make Israel “regret” any attack on his country in response to the Islamic Republic’s weekend...
Defence Forces Chief, Gen Francis Omondi Ogolla, and nine other senior military officers were killed in a helicopter crash on Thursday. The Kenyan police said there...
The United States and the United Kingdom announced widespread sanctions against Iran’s military drone program on Thursday in response to its weekend attack against Israel. Washington...
Burkina Faso has expelled three French diplomats for “subversive activities”, according to a foreign ministry note seen by AFP on Thursday, in a further sign of...
Israel considered carrying out a strike on Iran in retaliation for last weekend’s unprecedented attack but then aborted the plan, according to Israeli and US media...
Heavy rainfalls accompanied by thunderstorms hit the Gulf countries of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman, causing floods in major parts including Dubai International Airport....
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to secure a truce in Gaza and a release of hostages have stalled, Qatar’s prime minister said on Wednesday. “We are...
Prince Harry will not be allowed to appeal the downgrading of his personal security when he visits Britain, a court ruled on Monday. The youngest son...
Gaza’s crossings authority said Israel released around 150 detainees from the Palestinian territory on Monday, alleging that they had been mistreated in detention. Israeli soldiers have...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday that Iran gave neighbouring countries and Israel’s ally, the United States 72 hours’ notice it would launch strikes....
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel with hundreds of drones and missiles marked the culmination of a tense two weeks in which Washington engaged in whirlwind efforts...
Pope Francis on Sunday made a “pressing appeal” against a “spiral of violence” after Iran’s unprecedented missile and drone attack on Israel, warning of a potential...
After numerous countries condemned Iran’s attack on Israel, Tehran’s foreign ministry summoned the French, British, and German ambassadors “following the irresponsible positions of certain officials of...
Iraq reopened its airspace on Sunday hours after suspending all air traffic as neighbouring Iran launched an unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel, the Iraqi...
Iran launched more than 300 drones and missiles towards Israel in its unprecedented attack overnight, injuring at least 12 people, an Israeli army spokesman said Sunday....
Multiple blasts ripped through Jerusalem as missiles and drones fired by Iran arrived in Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had launched direct attack on Israel...
Iran has confirmed launching a drone attack on Israel, saying it has specific targets. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed this in a statement issued...
Israel is coming under direct attack from Iran Saturday, the army announced, in a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes that...
Israel is closing schools nationwide over security concerns, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Saturday, after Iran threatened to retaliate for a deadly air strike on...
After three days off, people in Tehran returned to work as normal on Saturday, but with a lingering cloud of concern that soaring tensions between Iran...
Troop reinforcements from Israel’s ally the United States headed to the region on Saturday, with fears of wider war growing more than six months into Israel’s...
Russian military instructors have arrived in Niger with an air defence system and other equipment as part of the West African nation’s deepening security ties with...
Russia and Germany on Thursday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to “meet all its security needs”...
OJ Simpson, the former American football star turned actor who was controversially cleared of double murder, has died aged 76. San Francisco-born Orenthal James Simpson rose...
Mexico has appealed to the International Court of Justice to boot Ecuador from the United Nations, following a late night police raid on its embassy in...
A court in Vietnam has sentenced a property tycoon to death over her role in a $12.5bn financial fraud case, the country’s largest on record. Truong...
Mali’s ruling military junta on Thursday banned media coverage of political parties a day after suspending their activities, marking the latest crackdown on dissent in the...
A bomb blast has killed six Nigerien soldiers near the border with Mali, Niger’s army said Thursday, adding around 10 “terrorists” were later killed in air...
President of United States, Joe Biden, has committed another blunder as he urged supporters to vote for him because he is in “20th century.” Biden said,...
Muslims around the world have celebrated Eid el-Fitr, the festival marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, with prayer, reunions with family and friends,...
Israeli strikes hit Gaza on Wednesday as Muslims marked the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan and after US President Joe Biden labelled Israel’s...
This week’s Champions League games will go ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat. This is according to the governing body of European soccer....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a date has been set for a ground offensive in Rafah, which Israel says is one of the...
Eclipse mania gripped North America on Monday as a breathtaking celestial spectacle observed by tens of millions of people offered a rare convergence of commercial and...
Israel on Sunday pulled all its troops out of southern Gaza, including from the city of Khan Yunis, the military and Israeli media said, after months...
Thousands of people turned out Saturday to see Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo announce his bid to return to office even though he is ineligible....
Ivory Coast’s biggest city Abidjan with a population of six million has announced a ban on begging in a bid to combat “urban disorder”. “In order...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday declared Zimbabwe’s drought a national disaster and said the country needed more than two billion dollars in aid to feed millions...
Newly elected Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has formally appointed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko the country’s new prime minister. Faye, 44, made the announcement early on...
Rwanda on Sunday begins sombre commemorations for the 30th anniversary of the 1994 genocide, a mass slaughter orchestrated by Hutu extremists against the Tutsi minority over...
At least nine people were killed and more than 800 injured Wednesday by a powerful earthquake in Taiwan that damaged dozens of buildings and prompted tsunami...
President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday congratulated President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on his inauguration in Dakar. As the Chairman of ECOWAS, President Tinubu said the successful conduct...
Moscow on Monday accused Israel of carrying out an “unacceptable” attack on a diplomatic building in Syria, after airstrikes destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in...
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s planning minister Judith Suminwa Tuluka, was Monday appointed as the African nation’s first woman prime minister, state television announced. An economist,...
A war monitoring group said eight people have been killed after Israeli strikes on Monday hit an Iranian embassy annex building in Syria’s capital. “Israeli missiles…...
Russia’s FSB security service has said that four people arrested Sunday in a foiled “terror” plot had provided money and arms for the deadly attack on...
More than 80 political parties and civil groups in Mali joined together to issue statements calling for a presidential election “as soon as possible” ending transitional...
An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza hospital Sunday killed four people and wounded another 17, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X,...
Metres away from the concrete and steel fence separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt, 11-year-old Malak Ayad flies a paper kite high in the sky –...
Talks aimed at brokering a truce between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip will resume in Cairo on Sunday, Egyptian outlet Al-Qahera reported, days after...
The death toll in Israeli air strikes on Syria has risen to 52, including 38 government soldiers and seven members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, a war...
Some 9,000 patients in the Gaza Strip require evacuation for emergency care, with the war-torn Palestinian territory down to just 10 barely functioning hospitals, the head...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should redouble efforts to win back the three Sahelian countries – Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger – that...
Anti-establishment figure Bassirou Diomaye Faye has comfortably won the Senegalese presidential election with 54.28 per cent of votes in the first round, official provisional results showed...
The death toll from the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by Islamic extremists rose on Wednesday to 143, Russian authorities said. Authorities listed the...
President Vladimir Putin on Monday acknowledged for the first time that “radical Islamists” were behind last week’s attack on a concert hall outside Moscow but suggested...
France has raised the level of terrorist threat to “extreme threat of terrorist attack” due to the deadly attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue...
The opposition candidate, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, is leading in the early results of Senegal’s presidential election, which has spurred his followers to troop out in celebration...
Authorities in Chad said on Sunday they had barred 10 candidates, including two fierce opponents of the military regime, from standing in the presidential election on...
A video apparently shot by gunmen who carried out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall has been posted on social media accounts typically used...
Senegal began voting Sunday for a new president in an unpredictable race following three years of turmoil and political crisis. Around 7.3 million voters are registered...
Pope Francis on Sunday sent prayers to the victims of the concert hall attack in Moscow, calling the violence “inhuman acts” that offended God. “I assure...
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has vowed that all perpetrators of the deadly attack at Crocus City Hall in northern Krasnogorsk, Moscow, where more than 100 people...
The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said Saturday that four of its militants carried out an attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb that...
Russia and China on Friday vetoed a US-led draft resolution at the Security Council on a ceasefire in Gaza, joining Arab countries in saying it did...
Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, has revealed that she was diagnosed with cancer, adding that she needed time to let her children know before making it...
President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has appointed his son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, as the Chief of Defence forces. Museveni announced Kainerugaba as the highest-ranking officer in the...
The United States has circulated for the first time a draft UN resolution calling for an “immediate” ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, as warnings grow of...
A South African bank on Wednesday announced a partial freeze on accounts of ex-president Jacob Zuma, two months ahead of a general election in which he...
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a Saint Petersburg woman to eight days in jail for writing “no to war” on a ballot paper during the...
Britain’s foreign minister David Cameron on Monday said the result of the Russian elections showed “the depth of repression” under President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin praised...