Category: World
Dozens missing after boat carrying 200 migrants sinks off Gambia
At least seven people have died, and many others are missing after a boat carrying about 200 migrants attempting to reach Europe capsized off the coas [...]
Choose people and planet over war – UN Secretary-General’s New Year message to world leaders
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, António Guterres, has called on world leaders to “get serious” and choose people and planet over pain and w [...]
Guinea junta chief takes lead in controversial election as social media restricted
Guinea's junta leader Gen Mamady Doumbouya, has taken a huge lead in a presidential election; his main challengers were barred from contesting, initia [...]
French police arrest suspect after three women stabbed on Paris metro
French police on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women in the Paris metro as the capital's end-of-year festivities were in full swin [...]
Former Malaysia PM Najib Razak found guilty in multi-billion-dollar state funds scandal
A Malaysian court has convicted former prime minister Najib Razak for abuse of power and money laundering, in his second major trial for a multi-billi [...]
US launches strikes against Islamic State in Nigeria
The US has launched strikes against militants linked to the Islamic State group (IS) in north-western Nigeria, where jihadists have long carried out [...]
Eleven arrested over mass shooting in South Africa tavern
Eleven suspects have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting that left nine people dead at a tavern in South Africa on Sunday.
Police laun [...]
Kwame Nkrumah ranked 13th most influential black man in history
Ghana's first president and Pan-Africanist, Osagyefo D.R. Kwame Nkrumah, has been ranked the 13th most influential black man ever by Global Statistics [...]
Libyan army chief of staff found dead in plane wreckage, PM says
The Libyan army's chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al Haddad, died in a plane crash on Tuesday after leaving Turkey's capital, Ankara, the prime mi [...]
Five dead after plane carrying child burns victim crashes in Texas
At least five people have been killed after a Mexican Navy plane crashed in foggy conditions near Galveston, Texas, on Monday while transporting a chi [...]