The gesture came on Thursday, as Ukraine’s president held what his office called a “marathon” press conference lasting more than 14 hours, with 300 journalists in attendance, which looked more like a forced march by the end. In the space of a few weeks, he has faced protests over a controversial peace deal in Ukraine’s […]

Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day on Thursday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing dozens, in a cross-border assault on U.S. allies that has turned the Washington establishment against Donald Trump.   The Turkish offensive against the U.S.-allied Syrian Democratic Forces, launched days after Trump pulled […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied Thursday that Donald Trump tried to blackmail him by withholding military aid to Kyiv in a phone call between the two leaders. “There was no blackmail,” the comedian-turned-politician told a news conference. A transcript of the phone conversation showed Trump asked Zelensky to investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. The […]

Foreign nationals from Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi, and Bangladesh sleep outside the UNHCR office in South Africa pleading for protection from xenophobic attacks. They also attributed their safety’s threat to high levels of crime. “Hundreds of people, originally from Rwanda, DR Congo, Burundi and Bangladesh, sleep outside the UNHCR office in Cape Town.” AFP reported. […]

The United States Customs and Border Protection officers have impounded 14,806 pairs of fake Nike shoes that, if genuine, would’ve been worth a total of more than $2 million (N721 million). The shoes arrived from China at the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport in containers marked as “napkins.” What was inside weren’t napkins at all, but […]

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected criticism from fellow Republicans over his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria and dismissed worries that captured Islamic State fighters might escape in the chaos of a Turkish attack. Trump’s abrupt move on Sunday to remove 50 U.S. troops out of northern Syria, which has […]

Japan’s economy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura has said on Thursday that the country has not fully emerged from deflation and that the government and the central bank will take all necessary steps to ensure a sustained economic recovery. “We haven’t reached a situation where we can say Japan has completely emerged from deflation,” Nishimura told parliament. […]

One of China’s top pig farming companies imported 900 breeding pigs from Denmark this week, China’s customs said on Wednesday, in the first import of live pigs in a year. The animals bought by C.P. Pokphand Co, China’s fifth-largest pig producer, arrived on a charter flight in August and spent over a month in quarantine […]

Ugandan woman, Jessica Nabongo has become the first black woman to visit all the countries in the world after visiting 195 countries. She set out to visit all 193 countries in the world in 2016, and on October 6 arrived the last on her list, Seychelles, according to a post on her Instagram page. She […]

Troops from Turkey and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria on Wednesday, pounding them with airstrikes and artillery before launching a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war. The assault began days after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled American troops out of the way, prompting denunciations from senior members […]

Sudan for the first in the country’s history appoints a female as its chief justice. The Sovereign Council, which is made up of civilian and military officials, confirmed that Supreme Court judge Neemat Abdulllah would head the country’s judiciary. Egypt resumes Nile dam talks with Ethiopia, Sudan Nigeria humble Sudan 5 nil to qualify for […]

The clashes between Malawi protesters and police has on Tuesday resulted in the death of a Police officer according to the Police spokesperson. Police spokesman James Kadadzerab told news agency AFP that officer Usumani Imedi had been stoned to death and “killed by rioters and criminals”. He was among officers who confronted demonstrators who had […]

Zimbabwe has raised its average electricity tariff by 320 per cent to ramp up power supplies at a time of daily blackouts but the move will likely anger consumers already grappling with soaring inflation and stagnant wages. The southern African country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in 10 years, seen in triple-digit inflation, 18-hour […]

Saudi Arabia announced on Wednesday it will allow women in the kingdom to serve in the armed forces as it embarks on a broad programme of economic and social reforms. The move is the latest in a series of measures aimed at increasing the rights of women in the kingdom, even as rights groups accuse […]

French health minister Agnes Buzyn called on world leaders and other donors to “intensify” their engagement to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria to send a “strong and ambitious signal”. She said this in her opening speech at the 6th Replenishment Investment Conference, organised by the Global Fund Forum in Lyon, France on Wednesday and Thursday. […]