A 18-year-old man set off an improvised explosive device at a monastery in a local suburb, killing himself and injuring eight others on Monday, TASS news agency reported. The attacker, a former student at an Orthodox school of the Vvedensky Vladychny Monastery, had a personal conflict with other students...
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iss India, 21-year-old actress Harnaaz Sandhu, was crowned Miss Universe early Monday in a live show in the Israeli coastal city of Eilat on the Red Sea. Sandhu prevailed against 79 competitors from countries around the world. In a profile on the pageant website, the winner is described as...
Sudan has denied Ethiopian accusations of supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which is fighting the Ethiopian army. “Sudan controls all of its internationally recognized territories and borders with neighboring Ethiopia, and has never, and will never, allow its use for any aggressions,” said Sudan’s foreign ministry in...
ECOWAS leaders have called on the international community to support the sanctions imposed on Guinea and Mali so as to promote peace, security, and stability in the region. The West African leaders made the call in their communiqué, at the end of the 60th Ordinary Session of the Authority...
Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors early Sunday after dozens of devastating tornadoes tore through six US states, leaving at least 83 people dead, dozens missing and towns in ruin. President Joe Biden called the wave of tornadoes, including one that travelled more than 200 miles, “one of the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter account was hacked Sunday with a message declaring his country had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and was distributing the cryptocurrency to citizens. Modi is a prolific tweeter and is the world’s most popular incumbent politician on the platform, with more than 73...
Two people were killed and seven were missing after an explosion caused a four-storey apartment building to collapse on the Italian island of Sicily, authorities said Sunday. Two women were recovered alive from the building in the town of Ravanusa after the collapse on Saturday night, the local civil...
At least 84 people are likely to have died after dozens of tornadoes swept through several U.S. states overnight, officials said. Tornadoes hit and destroyed a candle factory in Mayfield, Kentucky, when there were about 110 people inside, Governor Andy Beshear told reporters on Saturday. “I’m pretty sure that...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday evening hosted leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to a pre-Conference dinner at the Presidential Villa, ahead of the 60th Session of the bloc. Mr Sunday Aghaeze, Personal Assistant to the President (Photography) confirmed this in pictorial reports of the...
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange can be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, the Royal Courts of Justice ruled here Friday as the body overturned a lower court ruling earlier this year. Assange, 50, is wanted in the United States on allegations of disclosing national defense information...
Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen has ordered the country’s armed forces to collect all U.S. made military weapons and materials keep them in caches or burn them. The move came after the U.S. on Wednesday imposed an arms embargo on Cambodia, banning the export of its military...
A US federal appeals court on Thursday rejected former president Donald Trump’s bid to prevent the release of White House records relating to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. The appeals court agreed with a lower court ruling that President Joe Biden could waive executive privilege on the...
The armies of Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger said Thursday they had killed around 100 “terrorists” in a joint military operation against jihadists on the border between November 25 and December 9. The operation managed to “neutralise around 100 terrorists” and “detain around 20 suspicious individuals”, they said in...
No fewer than 49 migrants were killed on Thursday after a trailer truck overturned in southern Mexico, authorities said. The trailer illegally transporting migrants, mostly from Central America, overturned on the highway nearing Tuxtla Gutierrez, capital of southern Chiapas state, said the state’s civil protection agency. Another 58 people...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers has listed reviewing thematic issues concerning the region as one area of focus during its ongoing 87th ordinary session. Mr Zubairu Dada, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs said this on Thursday in Abuja at the opening...
Seven United Nations peacekeepers were killed on Wednesday when a logistical convoy struck an explosive device in central Mali, the UN mission MINUSMA said. “The initial toll is seven dead and three seriously injured,” it said on Twitter. The incident happened in the Bandiagara area in the Mopti region,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a three-year loan deal for Niger worth around 276 million dollars. The IMF said on Thursday, warning that security risks threatened the West African nation’s economic outlook. According to UN data, the decision allows the immediate disbursement of 55 million dollars to...
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa that covers an area of around 274,200 square kilometres and is bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and the Ivory Coast to the southwest. Burkina Faso’s...
Malawi police have arrested a former finance minister and an ex-central bank chief for fabricating figures in a bid to impress the IMF, they said on Wednesday. Joseph Mwanamveka, 57, and Reserve Bank of Malawi former governor, Dalitso Kabambe, 48, are accused of having cooked up numbers to secure...
India’s Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat and 12 others including his wife were killed and one was injured on Wednesday in a helicopter crash in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, officials said. “Deeply anguished by the sudden demise of Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin...