A 60-year-old father, a 54-year-old mother and their two sons, aged 14 and 12, died in a fire that gutted over a dozen houses in Cebu City in the central Philippines, a city firefighter said Wednesday. Wendell Villanueva of the city fire office said the victims were sleeping when the fire broke out. The incident […]
The Global Black Impact Summit (GBIS), on Tuesday, in Dubai featured panel discussions on Media Representation, Marketing and Storytelling and Nurturing Future Leaders – Empowering Black Youth for Excellence. The sessions provided insight into the role of media and education in advancing inclusivity worldwide. During the media discussion, speakers explored the impact of representation on […]
A US serviceman, Aaron Bushnell, on Sunday, set fire to himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC in protest against the genocide of Palestinians. Shortly before committing the suicide, Bushnell said he was protesting against the genocide of Palestinians. He later died from his injuries in hospital. In an apparent protest against the ongoing Israel-Hamas […]
A High Court Division bench in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, has banned gender detection of the fetus in a mother’s womb. Also, the High Court bench consisting of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque, on Sunday, ordered diagnostic centres to strictly follow the policy in this regard. The court issued the rule during the […]
Former U.S. President, Donald Trump has appealed his $454 million New York civil fraud judgment, challenging a judge’s finding that Trump lied about his wealth. This is as he grew the real estate empire that launched him to stardom and the presidency. The former president’s lawyers filed a notice of appeal, on Monday, asking the state’s mid-level appeals court to overturn […]
The Afghan caretaker government’s Ministry of Education has identified and annulled 700 “ghost schools” across the country, the spokesman for the ministry, Mansour Ahmad Hamza, said. “The Ministry of Education has culled up to 700 ‘ghost schools’ from official lists since the government took power more than two years ago,” the local Television channel Tolonews. […]
Hyenas killed three people between Jan. 1 and Feb. 24 in Sengerema, a district in Mwanza region, northern Tanzania, an official said on Sunday. The carnivore attacked and killed the first victim, a 16-year-old boy, on Jan. 15 when he was collecting firewood, according to the Sengerema district wildlife officer, Paul Ponsian. Also, the other […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Zelenskyy said the number was far lower than estimates given by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government. “31,000 Ukrainian military personnel have died in this war. Not 300,000, not 150,000, not whatever […]
Organisers have postponed a protest march scheduled for Tuesday against Senegalese President Macky Sall’s controversial move to delay this month’s presidential poll to December. Elymane Haby Kane, one of the march organisers, said he received an official letter from local authorities in Dakar. It stated that authorities banned the march as it could seriously hamper […]
On Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said it rescued 442 migrants off the coast of Libya in the past week. IOM said in a statement that from Feb. 4 to 10, 442 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya, including 68 women and 25 children. So far this year, IOM has rescued 1,004 […]