The parties in the Syrian civil war are sitting down at the same table for the first time after eight and a half years of bloodshed to work on a new constitution. ALSO READ: Germany charges two Syrians with crimes against humanity At noon on Wednesday, 150 delegates including 50 each from the government, opposition and […]

A 55-year-old teacher was on Tuesday, found hanging dead on a tree in his farmland at Kwesikum, a village near Agona Duakwa in the Agona East District in the Central Region of Ghana. Ghanaweb reports that the deceased, Mr Isaac Kofi Yeboah was found hanging on one of the trees on his farm with his […]

General Dynamics, one of the largest defence corporation in the world released its quarterly financial results some days ago. The report revealed that Saudi Arabia is about $3.4 billion late on payment for its Canadian-produced Light Armoured Vehicles (LAVs). This deal which was reportedly controversial ensured the supply of hundreds of LAV 6.0 advanced combat […]

…as they rot in Syrian prison hellhole Behind the steel door, the cell is as packed as their eyes are empty – haggard, scrawny prisoners in orange jumpsuits lying head-to-toe cover every inch of floor space. An AFP team was given rare access to one of the crowded detention facilities in northeastern Syria where Kurdish forces are […]

Slain terrorist Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s whereabouts were revealed to the American forces by one of his numerous wives, it has since emerged. The New York Daily Report revealed on Tuesday that one of Al-Baghdadi’s wives released the whereabouts of the slain terrorist leader. The woman was arrested in Iraq last week along […]

Saad al-Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister on Tuesday, declaring he had hit a “dead end” in trying to resolve a crisis unleashed by huge protests against the ruling elite and plunging the country deeper into turmoil. Hariri addressed the nation after a mob loyal to the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah and Amal movements attacked and […]

    The United States and 22 other countries at the United Nations pushed China on Tuesday to stop detaining ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, prompting China’s U.N. envoy to warn it was not “helpful” for trade talks between Beijing and Washington. China has been widely condemned for setting up complexes in remote Xinjiang that […]

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been barred from running in local district council elections after an official said his calls for “self-determination” in the territory were inconsistent with pledging an oath of allegiance to the city and its constitution. Wong, who has been arrested twice since mass protests in the city began […]

A plane crashed into an American house in Colonia, about 22 miles from New York City, United States. Luckily, there was no one in the house as the blast caused a heat and fire damages. The fire extended to adjacent houses but a woman in one of the houses was able to escape without any […]

Torrential rainfall has caused a landslide that resulted in the death of dozens of people in Cameroon’s western city, Bafoussam. The landslide was reported to have happened on Monday night. Rescue team, however, have been searching the area for survivors at the time the state media reported the news on Tuesday. The governor of the […]

Five hitmen have been jailed for attempted murder after each one avoided carrying out the contract themselves so they could make a profit. Chinese businessman Tan Youhui was looking for a hitman to take out a competitor, Wei Mou, and was willing to pay 2 million yuan (£218,000) to get the job done. READ ALSO: […]

The UK’s lorry driver inside which 39 people were found dead claimed that he was transporting biscuit and has no idea of the content of the lorry. Contrary to the publicised cause of death, the victims did not die by being frozen to death but instead, they were suffocated. According to the Irish Times report, […]

  Detectives investigating the deaths of 39 people in a lorry in Essex are hunting two new suspects. According to Dailymail, Police want to speak to Ronan Hughes, 40, and his brother Christopher, 34, both from Armagh, on suspicion of manslaughter and human trafficking. Announcing the hunt for the suspects today, Essex Detective Chief Superintendent Stuart […]

  German prosecutors have charged two Syrians with crimes against humanity that include torturing and killing opposition activists, setting the stage for the first trial of suspected members of President Bashar al-Assad’s feared security service. Germany detained the two men earlier this year under its “universal jurisdiction” laws that allow it to prosecute people for […]

Britain was heading towards its first December election in almost a century after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early ballot gained support from opposition parties on Tuesday. As the European Union finalises a third delay to the divorce that was originally supposed to take place on March 29, […]