Twelve people were feared dead on Monday after a boat capsized on a lake in Uganda, police said. The boat, overloaded with fish and timber, was carrying 18 people when it overturned Monday morning on Lake Albert in the country’s north-west due to strong winds, police spokesman Julius Hakiiza told dpa. According to Hakiiza, six […]

A Pakistan’s court on Monday ordered the release on bail of the daughter and political successor of ailing former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif from jail in which she had been detained on corruption charges. “Maryam Nawaz’s bail plea was accepted by the Lahore High Court,” party spokesman Attaullah Tarar, told reporters in the eastern city […]

A group of 41 migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. The migrants, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition. Seven of them were given first aid in hospital, the police said. This is happening barely few weeks after 39 dead […]

  The aspiring artist Victoria Millen is just here to inspire the world with what she does. Some people just stand out when they are in a certain place you know instantly that they are around. All eyes would be on them. They have the power to shift the mood of a place without even […]

Britain’s plan to raise the minimum wage to two-thirds of median earnings, taking it to 10.50 pounds (13.58 dollars) an hour, was endorsed by an independent review on Monday that found setting a floor on pay had a negligible effect on job creation. Companies are now likely to see wage costs rise after December’s snap […]

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday said there had been a rise in the “scale and number of attacks’’ against journalists around the world in recent times. In a message to mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, Guterres said, “societies as a whole pay the price’’ when journalists were targeted. […]

In a rare case, a woman in Uganda has been banned from conceiving any more, after giving birth to 44 children. Mariam Nabatanzi has been dubbed ‘the world’s most fertile woman’ by locals after she managed to give birth to four sets of twins, five sets of triplets and five quadruplets. But, doctors in Uganda […]

Iraq’s anti-government protests intensified as the protesters have shut down major roads in the country’s capital, Baghdad. The Iraqis protesters on Friday gathered in tens of thousands, the largest gathering of the protesters since the demonstration started. Some of the protesters also took the opportunity to express their anger at Iran which has close ties […]

Turkey’s interior minister, Suleyman Soylu said the country is ready to send captured ISIS members back to their home countries. Turkey’s minister revealed this plan while he lamented the European inaction on the situation of ISIS prisoners. Europe according to Soylu abandoned Turkey to deal with ISIS alone which is unacceptable. ALSO READ: “That is […]

Nine Afghan children were killed on Saturday when a mine exploded as they walked to school, police said, the latest victims in a growing toll of civilian casualties in the war. The blast happened in the northeastern province of Takhar. Saturday is a school day in Afghanistan. “This area is under Taliban control and since […]

The death toll from a “terrorist attack” on a military post in northeast Mali Friday has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said on Saturday. Thirty-five soldiers were killed on Friday in the attack on the spot in Indelimane, Mali about 70 kilometres west of Menaka near the border with Niger, according to the […]

Gunmen, wearing police and army uniforms, killed three people and injured three others at a bar in a heavily guarded neighbourhood of Burundi’s biggest city Bujumbura late on Friday, police and residents said. The attack took place in the Rohero district, where violence is rare and officials often have the protection of their own security […]

A 21-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a grandmother of 90 years in Bomet East Constituency, Kenya. Newslexpoint reports that the accused was apprehended on Thursday evening at Mulot town in Bomet County after the ‘Nyumba Kumi’ members spent the whole day hunting for him. READ ALSO: Teenager whose father raped 4 times […]

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet who has played a pivotal role in the Ukraine controversy, will refuse to testify as requested next week in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against Trump, an Energy Department spokeswoman said on Friday. Perry’s refusal represented the latest instance of Trump’s administration refusing to […]

Vietnam said on Saturday that human traffickers must be strictly dealt with as the Southeast Asian country was informed that several of its citizens were among the 39 people who died in a truck container in Britain last week. “The Vietnamese embassy in Britain was informed by Essex police that there are Vietnamese citizens, unidentified, […]