Iranian state television on Friday reported that an Iranian-owned oil tanker was struck by two missiles off the Saudi port of Jeddah quoting the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) which owns the vessel. The tanker was set ablaze and suffered heavy damage and was leaking crude about 60 miles (96 km) from Jeddah, according to […]

Three people died and two were injured when a highway bridge collapsed on Thursday in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu, state news agency Xinhua said. The bridge, in the city of Wuxi, fell on three cars below, killing three people in two of the vehicles, although the third vehicle was empty, it added. Three cars […]

Tanzanian President John Magufuli said that money to be recovered from economic crimes would be used to build nationwide road networks. Magufuli said this shortly after he had launched a 76.6 km road from Kanazi-Kizi-Kibaoni in Katavi region that cost about 45 million dollars (100.5 billion Tanzanian shillings). “Money to be refunded by people charged […]

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 […]