•Bazoum Ousted Nigerien President Mohammad Bazoum, his wife and son have been released from house arrest. According to a statement by the Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar today, Bazoum’s wife and the son were released after months of being held under house arrest. The Nigerien President and members of his family w...
French leader Emmanuel Macron today picked Gabriel Attal as prime minister to give new momentum to his presidency, with the 34-year-old becoming France’s youngest and first openly gay head of government. Following days of speculation, Macron late yesterday accepted the resignation of Elisabeth Borne, 62, who stepped down along with the rest of...
•South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee posing with puppies South Korea’s parliament is expected to vote today to ban eating dog meat and its trade, a traditional practice that activists have long called an international embarrassment for the country. Dog meat has long been a part of South Korean […]
Israel killed a top commander of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group in a strike on south Lebanon, a security source told our correspondent today, adding to fears the conflict in Gaza could spread. Hezbollah later announced the killing of a “commander” for the first time, naming him as Wissam Hassan Tawil. It said he died “on […]
•Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani (r) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Israel pounded Gaza yesterday as its war with Hamas raged into a fourth month, while top US diplomat Antony Blinken decried the “tragedy” of civilian deaths and warned the conflict threatened the wider region. US Secretary of State Bli...
•Tunisian Flag Four people have been killed and 40 hospitalised after consuming tainted alcohol in southern Tunisia, an official said. An inquiry has been opened and the person who supplied the alcohol has been arrested, Fethi Baccouche, a spokesman for the Medenine court, told our correspondent. An analysis of the alcohol is underway to deter...
•Boeing 737 MAX of Brazilian airline Gol The US air safety regulator announced yesterday it was grounding and ordering inspections on some Boeing 737 MAX 9 airplanes a day after a window panel blew out of one of the aircraft over the state of Oregon. The Federal Aviation Administration “is requiring immediate inspections of certain […]...
•Ousmane Sonko Senegal’s Constitutional Council yesterday rejected jailed opposition leader Ousmane Sonko’s candidacy for next month’s presidential vote, his lawyer said, after a long-running judicial saga around the firebrand politician. The 49-year-old, who came third in the 2019 presidential election, has been at the centre of a bitter stan...
•Trump The US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a ruling by Colorado’s highest court that would keep him off the presidential primary ballot in the western state. The conservative-majority Supreme Court, which includes three justices appointed by the former president, said it would hear oral arguments in the high-...
A shop owner in Iran, Zeinab Khenyab has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the U.S.-based human rights network, HRANA, said today. According to the network, Zeinab Khenyab was earlier sentenced to three months in prison in December in another case, for “propaganda against the state.” The woman [...
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