Authorities on Tuesday have urged all Chinese to avoid travelling abroad in a bid to stop the new coronavirus as the death toll in the country climbed to 106. Twenty-six people died since Monday morning, including a first casualty in the capital, Beijing, health authorities said. They said 4,515 cases were confirmed and many more […]

Japan will send a chartered flight to the central Chinese city of Wuhan later in the day to repatriate about 200 of its citizens, the government says. The government will also send doctors, nurses and quarantine officers so that those Japanese citizens can undergo checkups on a plane, according to the health ministry. The aircraft […]

Protests on Monday are in full swing in Lebanon’s capital Beirut as demonstrators continue to voice their objection to the government recently formed under new Prime Minister Hassan Diab. Beirut has been engulfed in protests over the poor economic situation and endemic corruption since October 2019. READ ALSO: Osun Government, Muslim group disagree over Amotekun […]

Police in Russia have discovered a newborn baby dead in a washing machine. Russian authorities said in an official report that the mother of the newborn Nadezhda Z, is facing a murder investigation after the baby was found dead.

German prosecutors have accused a 31-year-old man of sending a string of emails containing bomb threats and right-wing extremist material to politicians and public authorities across Germany. The accused signed them with the alias National Socialist Offensive, the prosecutors’ office in Berlin said on Monday. He is accused of 107 separate offences. From December 2018, […]

A Chinese visitor has been pointed as the first case of coronavirus in Cambodia by the country’s health minister. The prime minister, Mam Bunheng told a press conference that a 60-year-old Chinese man in the southern coastal city of Sihanoukville was confirmed on Monday to have the virus. He said the infected man had flown […]

A  hacker of Portuguese origin has claimed the responsibility for leaking confidential documents implicating Africa’s richest woman and daughter of a former Angolan leader in alleged murky international business deals. Lawyers for Rui Pinto, who is in a Lisbon jail awaiting trial in a separate case, said in a statement Monday he gave the information […]

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced eight people to life in prison after they were convicted of joining a local affiliate of the Islamic State group spearheading an insurgency in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The Cairo Criminal Court gave 29 others sentences ranging from 15 to 1 year in prison. It also acquitted seven others, including […]

Turkish emergency teams on Monday recovered the bodies of the last two missing quake victims from the rubble of a collapsed building, raising the death toll from the powerful tremor that hit eastern Turkey to 41. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck Friday night also injured more than 1,600 others, authorities said. At least 45 […]

The father of Meghan Markle has warned that it ‘will be quite stunning for everybody’ after vowing to testify against her in court. Thomas Markle says ‘everything will come out’ when they end up in the courtroom together. The Duchess of Sussex’s father has said he is willing to be a witness as part of […]