French soldiers have started withdrawing from their bases in Niger, with Niger’s military escorting the first convoy of troops out of the country. The troops travelled in the “direction of Chad”, authorities in Niamey said. Pick-up trucks and armoured personnel carriers laden with French soldiers drove through the dusty outskirts of Niamey, on Tuesday. This marked Niger’s […]
Hamas has threatened to kill one hostage for every Israeli airstrike “targeting innocent civilians,” a spokesperson for the Palestinian side said on Monday. This is coming two days into the devastating war on Israel. At least nine Americans have died and others remain missing after the attack, a National Security Council spokesman told CNN. Israel […]
Turkish Police detained 148 suspected drug traffickers in anti-narcotics operations across 21 provinces, the country’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Monday. The simultaneous raids took place in provinces including Istanbul, Bursa, Sivas, Bolu, Kahramanmaras, Osmaniye, Igdir, Usak and Mugla, Yerlikaya said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Drugs seized include 300kg […]
More than 800 Israelis and 500 Palestinians have died amid heavy fighting and bombardment following the largest attack by the Palestinian Hamas group against Israel in decades. Israeli Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant, said on Monday authorities would impose a total blockade on the Gaza Strip. Gallant added that government would cut electricity and block food […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday, discussed the military escalation between the Palestinians and the Israelis in the Gaza Strip. During a phone conversation, the two presidents highlighted the danger of the absence of a political prospect. They also discussed the exacerbation of the current conditions, which threaten civilians’ […]
An Israeli lawmaker, Ofer Cassif, says his party warned about events like Saturday’s Hamas attack on Israel if the government continued its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. Hamas launched a multipronged assault at dawn with thousands of rockets fired at Israel and the Gaza-based group’s fighters infiltrating Israeli towns and illegal settlements, on Saturday. The attack […]
Death toll from Saturday’s magnitude 6.3 earthquake that hit Western Afghanistan climbed to at least 2053, officials of the ruling Taliban said on Sunday. Al Jazeera reported that men were digging through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in desperate attempts to pull victims from the wreckage left by powerful earthquakes. Ruling Taliban officials […]
At least 14 people have been reported dead and more than 100 missing after a flash flood in India, news agencies reported. The flooding also damaged 14 bridges severely, according to Indian media, on Thursday. The report says some villages were also flooded, cited information from the authorities. The flood damaged a highway and disrupted […]
The Zimbabwean Government will enact legislation to bolster its fight against drug and substance abuse, a cabinet minister has said. Zimbabwe faced the growing challenge of drug and substance abuse by youths in recent years. This prompts the government to step up efforts to combat the scourge. The government has since established an inter-ministerial task […]
Three scientists, Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov, won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 rewards the discovery and development of quantum dots, nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties, […]