Former military chief Benny Gantz received an official mandate on Wednesday to try to form Israel’s next government, but with no easy path to ending Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long hold on power. After inconclusive elections in April and September, Gantz’s nomination marked the first time since 2008 that someone other than Netanyahu, 70, […]

Republican lawmakers, encouraged by President Donald Trump to get tougher in fighting Democrats’ attempts to impeach him, on Wednesday disrupted the U.S. House of Representatives impeachment inquiry and prevented a Pentagon official from testifying. The Republicans stormed into a hearing room where Laura Cooper, the U.S. defense official who oversees Ukraine and Russia matters, was […]

A Tanzania’s court on Wednesday sentenced four people to life imprisonment after they were convicted of chopping off the arm of a person with albinism. Judge Richard Mashauri of the Tanzania High Court in Sumbawanga in the southern highlands the four had intended to sell the arm to a witch doctor. The cutting of limbs […]

Police in Kenya has arrested a 25-year-old man identified as Muchiri Derick from Maara Sub-County for allegedly sodomizing his baby boy aged one and half years to death. During an interview with the journalists in her office, the Tharaka-Nithi Commissioner Ms Opwora Beverly on Wednesday confirmed the boy’s death on arrival at Mutunguni hospital where […]

Facebook Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear before the United States Congress today to defend “Facebook’s Impact on the Financial Services and Housing Sectors,” but there are reports the interview will be more focused on Facebook’s “Project Libra”. Project Libra was introduced by Facebook earlier in June. It was proposed as a […]

By Victoria Ojeme Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has stated that the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria and South Africa will ensure implementation of the Early Warning Signal mechanisms recently signed between both countries in South Africa, as part of the efforts to curb xenophobic attacks. Speaking against the backdrop […]

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader has ordered that all hotels built by South Korea at its resort should be demolished. The resort, a famous tourist site, Mount Kumgang was once referred to as a symbol of inter-Korean co-operation. “The buildings are just a hotchpotch with no national character at all,” Kim said, according to […]

Pope Francis launched an appeal on Wednesday for peace and dialogue in Chile, where violent anti-government protests have claimed 15 lives. “I am following with concern what is happening in Chile,’’ Francis, who hails from neighbouring Argentina, said during his weekly audience in St Peter’s Square. “I hope that by putting an end to the […]

…as driver, 24, from Northern Ireland is arrested on suspicion of murder Thirty-nine bodies, including one of a teenager, have been found in a lorry container in Essex. The bodies were found in a lorry on the Waterglade Industrial Park in Grays, at roughly 1.40am this morning. It is understood the lorry was originally from […]

In a sad development, a 32-year-old man in Zimbabwe committed suicide at his lover’s home after becoming distraught when he reportedly realised that she was cheating on him. Byron Nyevera is reported to have hanged himself at his lover Nothando Hlongwani’s home on Monday morning. Drug abuse, suicide on the increase —MD, Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Confirming […]

in ‘revenge attack following row with yob’ A newlywed couple were left for dead after they were attacked by a gang armed with bats, machetes and an axe. Teresa Mciver and her husband Neil suffered head injuries and broken ribs after the brutal assault on the Grange Estate in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire. The dementia […]

The government of Kenya has made it mandatory for all civil servants to always wear “Made in Kenya” outfits to work on Fridays and during public holidays. This was made known in a circular reportedly issued by the office of the Kenyan Attorney General dated October 17, 2019. According to the report, this is part […]

South African police have condemned the brutal murder of two men from a village in Ga-Molepo in the province this week. Police spokesperson Brigadier Motlafela Mojapelo in South Africa, said the two men, who were accused of stock theft in the area, were allegedly kidnapped by community members on Monday. Mojapelo said they were taken […]

The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine testified on Tuesday he was told that President Donald Trump made the release of security aid to Ukraine contingent on Kiev publicly declaring it would carry out politically motivated investigations that he sought, according to a copy of his statement to lawmakers. William Taylor, who as the charge d’affaires […]

Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Tuesday denounced Turkey’s leader as a thief for attacking the northeast of his country and reiterated a pledge to retake all areas lost to Damascus in years of civil war, state media reported. Assad made the remarks as he made a rare visit to a frontline of Syria’s conflict, […]