Category: Africa and the rest of the world

– Anger, grief sweep Mosul Relatives mourn over the body of a passenger who died in a ferry accident while crossing the Tigris river outside a morgue in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul AFP / Waleed AL-KHALED The capsizing of a Tigris River ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year in Mosul left […]

Assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons have been banned in New Zealand, with immediate effect, less than a week after a white supremacist gunned down 50 Muslim worshipers. The country imposed the ban on assault weapons Thursday, moving swiftly following the Christchurch massacre and triggering renewed calls from leading American politicians for gun controls in the […]

Police say gunman had planned a 3rd attack Zaed Mustafa, in wheelchair, brother of Hamza and son of Khalid Mustafa killed in the Friday, March 15 mosque shootings reacts during their burial at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) A father and son who fled the […]

New Zealand will tighten gun laws in the wake of its worst modern-day massacre, the government said Monday, as it emerged the white supremacist accused of carrying out the killings at two mosques will represent himself in court. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her coalition was unified on the need to reduce the availability of […]

By Rosalind Mathieson In Ukraine, politics is no joke. Corruption is systemic, and this well-educated nation of 42 million with a fertile landmass the size of France now threatens to displace Moldova as Europe’s poorest. Investors are staying away and patience among backers like the U.S. is running out. Efforts to root out graft have largely failed, […]

Handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows (L-R) Britain’s Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster David Lidington, Britain’s Leader of the House of Commons Andrea Leadsom, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond and Britain’s Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union […]

Britain faces a moment of truth Tuesday when parliament votes on Prime Minister Theresa May’s ill-loved Brexit plan — a day after she said she secured last-minute changes to the deal from the EU. May huddled late Monday with EU leaders in Strasbourg in a bid to salvage the vision of Brexit she set out […]

Whether her Brexit deal passes parliament or not this week, British Prime Minister Theresa May’s days are numbered, experts have said. The Conservative leader has in the past won praise for her determination and ability to survive what has often felt like one long political crisis since the 2016 EU referendum. But her approach to […]

Ninety-eight workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said on Saturday, in the latest case of alcohol poisoning in the country. The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of […]

President Donald Trump is ready to sign a border security funding deal, despite failing to get anywhere close to the money he sought for a US-Mexico border wall, US media reported Wednesday. CNN and NBC television quoted sources close to the president saying that Trump has resigned himself to the deal crafted by his Republican Party and the […]