FOREIGN NEWS

A bombing in a mosque on the grounds of Afghanistan’s interior ministry in Kabul killed four people and wounded 25 others on Wednesday, an official said, with injured patients claiming it was a suicide attack. Since the Taliban returned to power last August they have made security a priority but attacks have ramped up in […]

Twelve Chinese sailors have died and nine others are critically ill after a suspected case of food poisoning on board their vessel near Vietnam’s southern Con Dao island, a rescue official and state media said Friday. The Chinese-registered Wu Zhou 8 cargo vessel was on its way from Thailand to China when the 21 crew […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed treaties to annex four Moscow-occupied Ukrainian regions — Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk and Zaporizhzhia — at a grand ceremony in the Kremlin. He then joined hands with the Moscow-installed heads of the regions on a stage in front of the Russian elite and chanted alongside them “Russia! Russia!”. Putin […]

Meta Chief Executive Officer, Mark Zuckerberg has lost his spot in the list of top 10 richest men in the United States for the first time since 2015, following the astonishing stock price drop in his company in the past year. This was announced when Forbes released the 41st edition of its list of 400 […]

The US military killed 12 civilians in 2021, all in Afghanistan, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday. The Department of Defense “assesses that there were approximately 12 civilians killed and approximately five civilians injured during 2021 as a result of US military operations,” said the report, which Congress has required to be produced annually […]

South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma, who is facing corruption charges and served a short stint in jail, has said he is ready for a political comeback with the ruling party. In a statement late Monday, Zuma, 80, said he has been asked by members of the African National Congress (ANC), which has ruled South Africa […]

Kenyan police were investigating the death of a lawyer who was on trial for allegedly bribing and intimidating witnesses in the failed International Criminal Court case against President William Ruto, an officer said Tuesday. Paul Gicheru had been accused by ICC prosecutors of running an “egregious and damaging” witness tampering scheme that made it impossible […]

Portugal is set to build a new airport in its capital Lisbon as the country’s tourism industry is expected to gradually recover to pre-pandemic levels, said Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Costa said on Tuesday in his speech at the opening of the sixth Portuguese Tourism Summit marking World Tourism Day that the government would approve […]

Oil installation in Niger The Niger Republic Government has temporarily stopped issuing authorisations for oil product deliveries to neighboring Mali unless they are destined to the UN peacekeeping mission in the country. In a statement dated Sept. 21 and seen by Reuters on Tuesday, Niger said it would also revoke authorisations that had already been […]

The British monarchy and their households are returning to official duties as the period of royal mourning in memory of the late queen ends. Flags at royal residences were at half-mast until 8 a.m. on Tuesday, when they were raised back to full-mast, while William and Kate, the new prince and princess of Wales, will […]