Police in Lebanon on Saturday hunted for 44 fugitive prisoners who escaped from a detention centre on the outskirts of Beirut, calling on local residents to be on alert. Despite tight security, 69 people broke out of a detention facility near the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, a police statement said. Five were […]

A British charity worker who survived coronavirus, dengue and malaria was recovering after a potentially deadly snake bite in western India’s Rajasthan state. Ian Jones was bitten by an Indian cobra in rural Jodhpur district of the desert state and admitted to hospital in Jodhpur city, about 350 kilometres (220 miles) from the regional capital […]

Police in Uganda have a right to shoot protesters dead if they “reach a certain level of violence”, Security Minister Elly Tumwine has said. Clashes with police sparked by the arrest of presidential candidate and former pop star Bobi Wine have left at least 28 people dead since Wednesday. He was later charged with spreading […]

The UN wants humanitarian corridors set up after two weeks of conflict between Ethiopia’s military and forces backing the leadership in the Tigray region. Hundreds of people are reported to have been killed in the clashes. On Friday Ethiopia’s government said it had captured the city of Aksum and the town of Adwa. The government […]

The US government is stepping up the looming threat of sanctions in a bid to halt the controversial Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline, which will link Russia to Germany, a senior US official told dpa. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the US government has already identified a number of companies […]