A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan on Monday, killing 59 people. The fatality included 27 police officials, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the Police. The attacker appeared to have passed through several barricades manned by security forces to get into […]
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice, on Monday, relocated to its new office complex with assurance to provide efficient service delivery. President of the Court, Justice Amoako Asante, made this known during the opening of the Court’s new building which will serve as a temporary facility until the completion of the ECOWAS Complex in Abuja on […]
…….sold 10.5 million vehicles in 2022. Japan-based Toyota Motor Corp continues to be the world’s top-selling automaker, defending its title for a third straight year, selling 10.5 million vehicles in 2022. Second to Toyota is the Volkswagen Group, which reported its lowest-ever sales in over a decade earlier this month. The automaker sold 8.3 million […]
Findings of a study, on Monday, showed that 93 per cent of Pakistanis agreed that the sale of cigarettes should be banned. A Gallup and Gilani Pakistan survey reported that a nationally representative sample of adult men and women across the country took part in the study. Respondents were asked: “Do you think the sale […]
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 […]