Thirteen people died when a residential building collapsed in Aleppo, northern Syria, on Sunday as rescue workers are still searching for people believed still buried under the rubble, state media said. The five-storey building, in the Sheikh Maksoud district of Syria’s second-largest city, collapsed due to water leakages that weakened its foundation, government officials said. […]
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday, dismissed a senior cabinet ally to comply with a Supreme Court ruling that disqualified the minister from serving. Netanyahu fired Aryeh Deri, the Minister of Health and Interior Affairs, during his weekly cabinet meeting, the PM’s office said in a statement. The move follows a Supreme Court ruling […]
At least four persons lost their lives after a boat capsized in Kenya’s coastal town of Kilifi, local Police confirmed on Sunday. The boat lost control after strong waves hit it on Saturday before capsizing. It capsized in the Indian Ocean, Malindi Divisional Police Commander, Solomon Odero said. Odero added that the boat was ferrying […]
Health authorities in Malawi have confirmed the fifth case of polio, since the disease was first confirmed in a patient in Lilongwe, in February 2022. Local media reported the new case on Friday, quoting the Director of Health and Social Services for the Southern District of Blantyre, Gift Kawalazira. The director identified the new patient […]
France’s interior ministry said an estimated 1.12 million French people took to the streets across the country to protest against the government’s controversial pension reform plan. The CGT, France’s largest union, estimated the nationwide protest number at two million. According to the ministry, in Paris alone, 80,000 demonstrators expressed their discontent. Simultaneously, workers in several […]
The Maldives has welcomed the first direct flight from China with a water cannon salute following the latter’s recent optimisation of COVID-19 strategy. The Capital Airlines’ flight with over 190 Chinese tourists aboard was received on Wednesday by Chinese Ambassador Wang Lixin, Tourism Minister of the Maldives Abdulla Mausoom and other officials at the Velana […]
Police in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, on Wednesday arrested a 50-year-old foreigner for killing dogs and letting them rot in his house. The man, believed to be a British national of Nigerian origin, has been charged with being cruel to animals. Danny Mwale, the Police Deputy Spokesperson, said the Police arrested the man after receiving […]
Dozens of Indian wrestlers staged a protest on Wednesday against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), the governing body of the sport in the country. The wrestlers sat on a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in India’s capital New Delhi. “The federation’s job is to support the players and take care of their sporting needs. […]
Oil prices settled higher on Tuesday in choppy trading after China posted weak but expectation-beating annual economic growth data. The prices also settled on hopes that a recent shift in its COVID-19 policy will boost fuel demand. Brent crude futures settled up $1.46, or 1.7 per cent to $85.92 while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) […]
By Oluwashina Iyanda ……. explains its approach to fighting poverty, disease, and inequity Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it will spend $8.3 billion this year to continue its work fighting poverty, disease, and inequity. The foundation’s CEO, Mark Suzman, announced this in his annual letter published on Tuesday in Seattle, U.S.A., emailed to The […]