A South African court on Tuesday, granted former president Jacob Zuma leave, to appeal a ruling that he returned to prison after being released in September on medical parole. He was however, given permission to spend Christmas at home. Zuma, 79, was sentenced in June to 15 months in...
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The World Economic Forum has postponed its annual meeting in Davos in Switzerland due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) fears, citing “continued uncertainty over the Omicron outbreak.” “Current pandemic conditions make it extremely difficult to deliver a global in-person meeting,” the organisation wrote on its website. The event was due to...
Israeli Prime Minister’s Office on Monday said the Israeli government had approved the ban of all non-essential travel to 10 countries including the United States to prevent the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain. The countries include Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey. “The cabinet...
The death toll from Typhoon Rai that lashed the Philippines last week has climbed to 208, a spokesperson for the police said on Monday, adding that 52 more remain missing. However, Philippine National Police spokesperson Colonel Roderick Alba only provided details of the reported 29 deaths caused by Typhoon...
Somali National Army (SNA)’s Special Forces (Danab), on Sunday, killed six fighters of the al-Shabab militant group during an operation in the southern region, military officials confirmed on Monday. SNA commanders, who led the operation, told the State-owned Radio Mogadishu that the security forces which have intensified onslaught agonist...
At least one policeman died Monday in the eastern DR Congo city of Goma as police fired tear gas and live bullets to break up a protest against rising crime. The demonstrators converged on arterial roads early in the morning, setting up barricades and burning tyres in the capital...
A left-wing legislator who rose to prominence during anti-government protests in Chile has been elected the country’s next president. With almost 99 percent of polling stations reporting, Gabriel Boric won 56 percent of the votes, compared with 44 percent for his conservative opponent, Jose Antonio Kast. In a model...
Two adults and two children died after a light plane crashed off the coast of the Australian city of Brisbane, police said Sunday. Queensland state police said the four were killed when the small aircraft crashed in shallow waters near Redcliffe, a bayside suburb in the city’s north, just...
UN Secretary António Guterres on Saturday received the Lamp of Peace award , a major honour from the Catholic Church, which he said recognises the work of UN personnel “striving for peace around the world”. Reminding that after the horrors of World War in the 20th Century, “the UN...
At least 12 people were killed and several more injured Saturday by a gas blast in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, police said. The explosion went off in a bank building in the Sher Shah area and social media and TV footage showed the two-floor structure’s windows and doors...
UN Secretary General António Guterres on Saturday expressed solidarity with more than 281 million international migrants, saying solidarity with migrants has never been more urgent. Guterres, in his message on International Migrants Day, said that more people than ever live in a country other than the one where they...
Alimihan Seyiti, the oldest person in China, died on Thursday at the age of 135 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said Saturday. Hailing from Komuxerik Township of Shule County in Kashgar Prefecture, Alimihan Seyiti was born on June 25, 1886, according to the county’s publicity department. In...
A French court on Thursday sentenced a former hotel driver to 14 years in jail over complicity in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide for involvement in transporting Hutu militiamen who massacred hundreds of Tutsis. French-Rwandan Claude Muhayimana, 60, was found guilty of complicity in genocide and in crimes against humanity. The...
A Donald Trump supporter was sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the attack on the US Capitol, the harshest punishment yet handed down in the investigation into the January 6 violence. Robert Scott Palmer, 54, was seen in videos and photos wearing an American...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially declared Thursday the end of the latest Ebola outbreak, the second outbreak in 2021, according to the DRC’s health authorities. In total, 11 cases — eight confirmed, three probable, including six deaths, were reported in the outbreak that was declared on...
US authorities released thousands of secret files Wednesday on president John F. Kennedy’s assassination, a case that still fuels conspiracy theories despite the official conclusion he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. The CIA and FBI files show US investigators spread their net wide and deep to find out...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The undemocratic takeover of government in some West African countries has created a great challenge for Electoral Commissions in the sub-region, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu. Speaking on Wednesday during plenary of the ECOWAS Network of Electoral...
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has welcomed the sultan of Oman to Windsor Castle. The 95-year-old monarch meet Haitham bin Tariq al Said in person on Wednesday. The Middle Eastern ruler was joined by his wife, Her Highness, The Honourable Lady Sayyida Ahad Bint Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Busaidiyah. The...
South Africa’s High Court has ordered former President Jacob Zuma to return to jail after setting aside the decision to release him on medical parole, a court judgement showed on Wednesday. The 79-year old began medical parole in September, and is serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court....