•President Umaro Sissoco Embalo The president of Guinea-Bissau issued a decree today dissolving the parliament after an attempted coup in the West African nation. “The date of forthcoming legislative elections will be set at the opportune moment, in line with the constitution,” President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said in a communique.
Teary-eyed, keffiyeh-wearing activists protested Israel’s bombardment of Gaza at the UN climate talks in the UAE Sunday — a tame but rare display in a country where demonstrations are banned. Hindered by UN restrictions preventing them from raising Palestinian flags or chanting certain slogans, more than 100 activists in a COP28 “Blue Zone” ve...
•Security Forces exchange gunfire in Guinea-Bissau The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) today condemned the violence that erupted in Guinea Bissau in the early hours of yesterday. The condemnation was contained in a statement issued by the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. It stated that the community learnt with deep preoccupation...
•Donald Trump A US federal appeals court ruled Friday that former president Donald Trump can be sued over the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol that saw his supporters attempt to thwart certification of his election loss to Joe Biden. Trump could now face civil action over the violent clashes which saw a […]
Fighting resumed in Gaza today immediately after the expiry of a week-long truce between Israel and Hamas, with the first fatalities reported minutes later, according to health officials in the Palestinian territory. A live cam showed a heavy cloud of grey smoke rolling over northern Gaza, and apparent sounds of automatic weapons fire and expl...
A Chinese student and video game streamer has died from possible exhaustion after livestreaming for five nights in a row. He was a final-year student at Pingdingshan Vocational and Technical College in Henan, with the surname Li. He was hired by a Chinese media company to stream as part of an internship requirement so he […]
•A helicopter carrying two Israeli-Russian hostages taken by Hamas militants A senior Hamas official said yesterday the Islamist movement was ready to release all the Israeli soldiers it is holding captive in exchange for all Palestinian prisoners held in Israel, amid negotiations to extend a truce over Gaza. Hamas official and former Gaza hea...
•Peter Nygard Peter Nygard, the founder of one of Canada’s largest clothing brands, was found guilty today on four counts of sexual assault, a court announced in Toronto. The jury, which deliberated for five days, also acquitted the Finnish-Canadian Nygard on one count of sexually assaulting one of the women who testified at the seven-week [&h...
•Kanyeyachukwu Fourteen-year-old Nigerian painter, Kanyeyachukwu Tagbo Okeke, who lives with autism, has been honoured with the Young CEO Award by Ras J. Baraka, the mayor of the City of Newark, New Jersey, the United States of America (USA). The mayor honoured Kanyeyachukwu during the 8th Annual Nigerian Independence Day celebration and the g...
•Joe Biden Israel has agreed to daily four-hour military pauses in northern Gaza for humanitarian purposes, the White House said yesterday, even as President Joe Biden said there was no chance of a full ceasefire. Biden has been pressing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for longer breaks in the fighting after more than a month [&helli...