By NEWS WIRES More than a third of the troubled country’s districts did not take part in Sunday’s first round of voting for the presidency…
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Text by:NEWS WIRES Video by:Alexander AUCOTT A major landslide destroyed homes overnight in a village in Norway close to the capital Oslo, leaving at least…
By: NEWS WIRES A rebel coalition that has been fighting the government in Central African Republic said Friday it was calling off a three-day ceasefire…
By FRANCE 24 A car bomb killed at least eight people and wounded more than 15 others in Kabul on Sunday, officials said, the latest…
By Sébastian SEIBT The British vaccination campaign against Covid-19 had barely begun when it hit its first snag. On 9 December Two staff working for the British National…
As fighting continues “in many parts” of Ethiopia’s Tigra, according to the United Nations, Tigray’s regional president Debretsion Gebremichael told FRANCE 24 that the northern…
By NEWS WIRES At least 110 people were killed in a weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on jihadists, the UN humanitarian coordinator…
By FRANCE 24 Dominic Cummings, the controversial brains behind the 2016 campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, on Friday stepped down as Prime…
Text by: NEWS WIRES Ivory Coast’s government on Tuesday accused the opposition of “plotting” against the state after it vowed to set up a rival…
By NEWS WIRES A three-year-old girl was rescued from a collapsed building in the western Turkish city of Izmir on Monday, nearly three days after…
By NEWS WIRES The offensive took place on Friday in an area near the borders of Burkina Faso and Niger, where government troops are struggling to rout an…
By FRANCE 24 French health authorities on Monday reported 52,518 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, setting a new daily record since the…
Kabul (AFP) At least 19 people were killed and 22 wounded Monday when militants stormed Afghanistan’s biggest university in an attack that ended only after…
By FRANCE 24 French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new nationwide lockdown from Friday to stem a surge in coronavirus patients in French hospitals,…
By FRANCE 24 Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Wednesday that German officials have agreed to a four-week shutdown of restaurants, bars, cinemas, theaters and other…
Lagos (AFP) Gunshots were fired, shops were looted and a prison was set ablaze as fresh violence rocked Nigeria’s biggest city Lagos on Thursday after…
Text by: NEWS WIRES Several protesters were killed by Nigerian security forces in Lagos on Tuesday, Amnesty International said, after witnesses reported armed men opened…
By NEWS WIRES Germany has issued international arrest warrants for the two founders of the firm at the centre of the tax haven scandal exposed…