Colombia declared a state of emergency on Wednesday after floods killed 18 people and left thousands of families displaced in the country’s northern cattle belt. Water submerged homes after a dam and rivers overflowed in Cordoba, one of the worst-hit…
Ghanaian President John Mahama has ordered the immediate recall of Mohammed Ahmed, known as Baba Jamal, from his position as the country’s high commissioner to Nigeria over allegations of vote buying in Saturday’s parliamentary primaries. Mahama’s decision was in response…
United States President Donald Trump has said he does not regret briefly posting a controversial video on his Truth Social account that included offensive imagery portraying former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes. Speaking with…
A proposal to create a “Ministry of Sex” in Armenia has stirred public debate as the country heads toward parliamentary elections. The suggestion was raised by Sargis Karapetyan, co-founder of the Strong Armenia political movement, during a recent podcast discussion….
The United States has sent a small team of military personnel to Nigeria in a move aimed at strengthening security cooperation between both countries. The deployment was disclosed by the commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), General Dagvin…
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries to avoid unilateral or dominating approaches when addressing global issues. He emphasized that shared responsibility and strong multilateral institutions remain essential for maintaining peace and stability in a rapidly changing world….
The Israeli military said on Friday it launched overnight strikes at “eight terrorists” in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, killing three of them, with a fragile ceasefire still in place in the Palestinian territory. The US-brokered ceasefire, which sought…
Sharia police caned a couple 140 times each in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday for having sex outside marriage and drinking alcohol, likely one of the severest such punishments since the deeply conservative region adopted Islamic law. Sexual relations between…
Texas state police officers on Wednesday used tear gas to disperse a demonstration outside a US immigration detention facility where protesters demanded the release of a five-year old Ecuadoran boy among others swept up in the Trump administration’s immigration clampdown….
North Korea fired what appeared to be a ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan on Tuesday, Tokyo’s defence ministry said. South Korea’s Joint Chief of Staff also said it had detected a “projectile” being fired towards what Seoul calls…
