Algerian authorities declared President Abdulmadjid Tebboune the overwhelming winner of Saturday’s Presidential election on Sunday. But, a rival candidate alleged irregularities in the count and fewer than half of registered voters cast ballots. Official preliminary results gave Tebboune 95 per cent of the vote. This is enough to avoid a second-round run-off. Abdelaali Hassani Cherif […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) has announced the successful completion of its flagship Islamic Finance Strategic Mapping Framework (IF-MAP), (formerly IF-CAF) pilot exercise in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The bank announced this in a statement mailed to TheNewsZenith on Sunday. According to the statement, IsDBI conducted this comprehensive assessment in collaboration […]
Algerians headed to the polls on Saturday to elect their next president, with more than 23 million citizens eligible to cast their ballots. Voting began early in the day, with polling stations nationwide opening at 8.00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT). Mobile polling stations have operated since Wednesday to access remote areas, while overseas voting […]
An Egyptian archaeological mission unearthed a group of mud bricks-made military barracks and warehouses from the New Kingdom era (1550 BC-1069 BC). This happened in Beheira governorate in northern Egypt, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on Thursday. Dr Ahmed Said El-Kharadly of the Supreme Council of Antiquities led the Egyptian archaeological mission. […]
Dozens of families of Israeli hostages, held in the Gaza Strip, gathered in Tel Aviv’s HaBima Square on Thursday, demanding an exchange deal with the Palestinian group, Hamas, Anadolu Agency reports. The demonstrators carried six empty coffins draped in Israeli flags. The coffins symbolised the six hostages whose bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the […]
A shooter, at a Georgia High School in the US, killed four people, on Wednesday, sending students scrambling for shelter in their classrooms, authorities said. Eventually, students trooped to the football stadium, just as officers swarmed the campus and parents raced to find out if their children were safe. At least nine people were injured […]
Weather conditions primarily caused the helicopter crash, in which Iran’s former President Ebrahim Raisi, died. Iran’s state TV had reported, citing the final investigation report on the incident. Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, died when his helicopter crashed in May in a mountainous region near the Azerbaijan border. Raisi, a hardliner was a potential successor to […]
The Israeli army demolished 78 Palestinian homes and structures in the occupied West Bank last month, according to a Palestinian commission, Anadolu Agency reports. The demolished buildings included 36 inhabited houses, the Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission said in a statement. Also, 74 more homes and structures face the risk of impending demolition by Israeli […]
Wearing a bulky protective suit and helmet, Mohamed Ahmed inches towards the truck where explosives wired to a mobile phone have been planted in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Fortunately for Ahmed, a police officer, this is a training exercise and the device is a dummy. Bombings using this technique, or suicide attacks with vehicles, are a […]
The United States has accused Iran of launching cyber attacks on the presidential campaigns of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and targeting US voters. It said added the cyber attacks were with influence operations designed to exacerbate political division. The assessment from the FBI and other federal agencies marks the first time the US government has […]