By Olaolu Fawole A video showing a moment when a female sports official decided to racially discriminate a black girl, who was among medalists at a GymSTART tournament in Ireland has surfaced on social media. The video which has gone viral on social media apps like Tiktok and X (formerly Continue Reading
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The head of Sudan ‘s army has told the BBC he is willing to talk to the commander of rebel forces whom he is battling for control of the country. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said he was ready in principle to sit down with Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The […]Continue Reading
India has suspended visa services for Canadian citizens amid an escalating row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Visa service provider BLS posted a message from India’s mission blaming “operational reasons” for the decision. Tensions flared this week after Canada said it was investigating “credible allegations” Continue Reading
One of Ukraine’s staunchest allies, Poland, has said it is no longer supplying weapons to its neighbour, as a diplomatic dispute over grain escalates. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Poland’s focus was instead on defending itself with more modern weapons. Poland has already sent Ukraine 320 Soviet-era tanks and 14 MiG-29 fighter jets and has […]Continue Reading
Six Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Four were killed in a late-night military raid of Jenin refugee camp in which some 30 people were also injured, according to Palestinian medics. Another young Palestinian man was killed during an Israeli raid in Jericho on Wednesday morning. […]Continue Reading
Most of the Spain women’s team have agreed to end their boycott, says Spanish secretary of state for sports Victor Francos. The agreement was reached at 05:00 local time on Wednesday after more than seven hours of meetings. Two of the 23 players called up for this month’s Nations League games have chosen to pull […]Continue Reading
Contaminated water and a lack of sanitation in flood-hit eastern Libya means people there are at serious risk of disease outbreaks, the UN has warned. It say says teams from nine UN agencies are giving humanitarian aid, including emergency medical kits that will support 15,000 people for three months. Thousands of people were killed when […]Continue Reading
Water suppliers in Johannesburg, South Africa, have asked residents of the city and its suburbs to use less water amid an intensifying water shortage that they warn could “result in the collapse of the system”. Rand Water and Johannesburg Water on Sunday said that high water consumption by residents “is putting a strain on the […]Continue Reading
Fourteen people have been killed in a plane crash during bad weather in the Brazilian Amazon on Saturday. The small propeller plane was nearing the end of its 400km (248 mile) trip between Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, and the remote jungle town of Barcelos when it went down. Officials said all those on […]Continue Reading
An 81-year-old man has appeared before Belfast Magistrates’ Court in connection with a number of historical child abuse offences. James Henry Clarke, with an address at Meadow Lake in Canada, is facing three charges of indecently assaulting two boys in the 1960s and 1970s. He has been extradited to Northern Ireland from Canada. The court […]Continue Reading
The prosecutor leading the federal election meddling case against Donald Trump has asked a judge to place him under a gag order, limiting how he is able to publicly comment on the case. Special Counsel Jack Smith’s filing says the “narrowly tailored” order would prevent harassment of witnesses. Mr Trump hit back online, accusing Smith’s […]Continue Reading
A son of the infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has been extradited to the US on drug trafficking charges, the US Attorney General has said. Ovidio Guzmán is suspected of leading, along with his brother, the powerful Sinaloa drug cartel his father founded. Ovidio is also accused of having ordered the murder of […]Continue Reading
The United Nations, UN, is urgently seeking more than $71 million to assist those most in need after deadly flash floods swept Libya over the weekend. Hurricane-strength Storm Daniel slammed into Libya on September 10, killing at least 4,000 people, with thousands more still missing. In a flash appeal Thursday, the United Nations Humanitarian Agency […]Continue Reading
The highest fuel prices in recent memory have been announced by Kenya’s regulator, to the fury of many in the country. Overnight the cost of petrol rose to a record high of about 212 shillings ($1.40; £1.20) per litre in the capital Nairobi – with the prices of different types of fuel rising by about […]Continue Reading
Aid teams are battling to help survivors and locate the dead five days after devastating flooding hit eastern Libya Thousands of people were killed when two dams burst after intense rainfall from Storm Daniel, washing away whole neighbourhoods in the city of Derna. Figures for the number of dead vary from around 6,000 to 11,000 […]Continue Reading
A murderer who escaped from a US jail two weeks ago was captured by a law enforcement dog after a heat-sensing aircraft located him, authorities say. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, was arrested in a wooded area in Pennsylvania on Wednesday as he tried to crawl away from officers who had surrounded him. ABC7 Chicago More than […]Continue Reading
Russia says Ukraine has launched 10 missiles and three unmanned boats in an attack on the home of its Black Sea fleet in Crimea. The attack caused a large fire at a Sevastopol shipyard which left 24 people injured, Russia said. Moscow-installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev claimed most of the weapons were intercepted. Russia said two […]Continue Reading
The Southern Indian state of Kerala has issued an alert after it confirmed that two person have died from the rare Nipah virus. One of the deaths occurred earlier this month while the other took place on 30 August, both in the state’s Kozhikode district, officials said. Two relatives of a victim have also tested […]Continue Reading
Today is the 22nd anniversary of the sad events of September 11, 2001, widely known as 9/11, when terrorists attacked the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the World Trade Centre in New York City, killing almost 3,000 people and changing the course of history. Many people died in the terrorist attacks at the World Trade […]Continue Reading
Four people have died and others are still missing after an explosion at a granite quarry in western Ghana on Saturday. The victims are believed to be workers who were on night shift at the Chinese-operated quarry in Shama district. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast which destroyed buildings near the quarry […]Continue Reading
Rescuers in Morocco have used their bare hands to dig for survivors, more than 48 hours after a powerful earthquake claimed more than 2,000 lives Mountain villages near the epicentre lie in ruins and many local people are desperately awaiting aid The Moroccan government says it has accepted aid from four countries so far – […]Continue Reading
Spain on Sunday sent a plane with 56 rescuers and four search dogs to quake-hit Morocco after it received a formal request for help from Rabat, the defence ministry said.An A400 military plane took off from a base in the northeastern city of Zaragoza with the team bound for Marrakesh to “help in the search […]Continue Reading
More than 600 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck central Morocco, according to the country’s interior ministry The quake – measuring magnitude 6.8 – sent people rushing into the streets in Marrakesh and other cities Many of the deaths were said to be in hard-to-reach mountain areas – and at least 153 people […]Continue Reading
Hong Kong and Southern Chinese cities are battling widespread flooding as the region endures some of its heaviest rainfall on record. On Friday, streets and subway stations were underwater in Hong Kong as officials shut schools and workplaces. The weather bureau said the downpour, which began on Thursday, is the biggest to hit the city […]Continue Reading
Mexico’s highest court has ruled to decriminalise abortion nationwide after establishing that previous laws prohibiting it are unconstitutional and was in violation of women’s rights. The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) made the judgement Wednesday, asserting that terminating pregnancies across Mexico are not constitutional. According to BBC, the verdict was Continue Reading