As the war enters its 906th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 19, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time stated the aim of Ukraine’s August 6 incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, saying the operation ...

Hamas claims the talks in Qatar are being used by the US and Israel to impose their will on Gaza Hamas said on Sunday that a new proposal meant to bridge the gaps between Israel and the Palestinian group over a Gaza ceasefire were too close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Kyiv has stationed more than 120,000 soldiers along its border with Belarus, the country’s state news agency reported, as fighting continues amid Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region. Lukashenko, a staunch ally of Russian President ...

Donald Trump resorted to personal attacks on rival Kamala Harris at a rally in Pennsylvania, calling her a 'lunatic' and a 'communist'. Donald Trump launched fresh personal attacks against White House rival Kamala Harris on Saturday, as new polling showed her making major gains in key ...

Residents in central city of Saint-Marc have been advised by authorities to remain vigilant for escapees. A prison break in central Haiti has resulted in the deaths of at least 11 inmates, the authorities said, the third such incident this year amid a continuing humanitarian crisis ...

The UN is urging a humanitarian pause in fighting to allow Gaza's children to receive polio vaccines Gaza has recorded its first polio case in 25 years, the Palestinian health ministry said on Friday, after UN chief Antonio Guterres called for pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to vaccinate ...

In October 2023, Heman Bekele, a rising 10th-grader from Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, made history. He was crowned the winner of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge, a prestigious title that came with a $25,000 prize. He competed against nine other finalists, and his ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for humanitarian pauses in the war in Gaza in order to conduct a polio vaccine campaign after the virus was detected in the besieged territory. “It is impossible to conduct a polio vaccination campaign with war raging all over,” ...

As Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris overtakes her Republican opponent Donald Trump in opinion polls – she is now leading in five crucial swing states – experts warn she will face “a heavy road” when it comes to passing economic legislation should she become the next president of ...

Susya, West Bank – Wadi Raheem is a dry riverbed near the Palestinian village of Susya in the South Hebron hills in the occupied West Bank. The area has a stark beauty that is characterised by rolling hills, rocky outcrops and stunning vistas. Despite the generally poor soil, Palestinians ...

The English Premier League season returns on Friday when Manchester United host Fulham at Old Trafford. Who: Manchester United vs Fulham What: English Premier League opening game Where: Old Trafford, Manchester, United Kingdom When: 8pm local time (19:00 GMT) on Friday, ...

The Nahal Heletz settlement shrinks Palestinian land and poses ‘imminent threat’ to a World Heritage Site. Israel has approved a new illegal settlement on a UNESCO World Heritage Site near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Bezalel Smotrich, the country’s far-right finance ...

Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded after problems emerged with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. NASA has said it will decide by the end of the month how it will bring home two astronauts who were stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) when their Starliner ...

Marawi, Philippines – Maisara Dandamun-Latiph’s office sits on a hill overlooking the ruins of Marawi, the southern Philippine city that was destroyed during a five-month battle with hardline fighters linked to the ISIL (ISIS) group in 2017. Dandamun-Latiph was named chairperson of the ...

Two French Rafale jets collided midair Wednesday in a rare accident involving the cutting-edge military aircraft and authorities launched a desperate search for two crew. The two supersonic jets were from the Saint-Dizier air base, an air force spokesman in Paris told AFP. It was gathered ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The United States all-items inflation increased to 2.9 percent in July 2024 on a year-on-year basis. This is according to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics data released on Wednesday. The Bureau noted that the Consumer Price Index for AIl Urban Consumers increased by 0.2 percent ...

Iran on Tuesday rejected European countries’ attempts at mediation amid rising tensions in the Middle East, as Tehran insisted on its right to launch a retaliatory strike on Israel. “These calls are politically one-sided and illogical, as they encourage a regime to commit even more crimes in ...

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – In the early hours of Saturday morning, 24-year-old Sajida al-Kafarna was sleeping with her family inside a school classroom when they were woken by a huge explosion. “We reassured each other that we were OK, but when I noticed my father’s empty place, panic set in ...

Africa’s top public health body acts over outbreak of mpox that spread from the Democratic Republic of Congo to neighbouring countries. The African Union’s health watchdog has declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent, saying the move is a ...

TikTok fans, your pleas have been heard. The social video juggernaut today announced that group chat, one of the platform’s most requested features, will finally be introduced in a new update. Group Chat will allow users to share their favorite videos, latest trends, and greatest memes with their ...

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In their first face-to-face meeting since 2021, the pair are expected to discuss Israel’s war on Gaza. The Kremlin has maintained relations with both Israel and Palestine, but experts say its ...

As the war enters its 900th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. Kursk incursion Ukraine’s army chief, Oleksandr Syrskii, said Kyiv controls about 1,000sq km (386sq miles) of the Russian region of Kursk after launching a ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges reform, says the African continent is underrepresented in a changing world. The United Nations chief has called for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to reform its outdated structure and assign Africa a permanent seat at the table, stressing ...

The Quincy Institute’s Trita Parsi argues that Iran’s top priority is to avoid direct confrontation with the United States. Iran’s leaders have pledged “harsh punishment” of Israel after the assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran. But the United States has, in ...

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise abseiled from the roof of the Stade de France as Paris said farewell to an Olympic Games hailed as one of the most successful. Cruise descended on a wire in front of 71,500 spectators on Sunday evening, grabbed the Olympic flag and jumped on a motorbike, to the ...

In the midst of their revelry, festival-goers in California unwittingly kicked up the invisible spores of a dangerous fungus while dancing in the dust. Floating in the air, the soil pathogen surreptitiously slipped into the lungs of at least five attendees at the Buena Vista "Lightning in ...

As the war enters its 899th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, August 12, 2024. Fighting Officials in the Russian city of Kursk said that 13 people were injured after debris from a destroyed Ukrainian missile fell on a nine-storey residential ...

In his first interview since dropping out of the presidential race, US President Joe Biden has told broadcaster CBS that he made the decision in order to maintain democracy in the United States. Speaking on the CBS News Sunday Morning programme, Biden said: “The polls we had showed that it ...

Claim comes amid reports of foreign efforts to interfere in US presidential election. US presidential candidate Donald Trump has accused Iran of hacking his campaign. The Republican nominee’s campaign team issued a statement late on Saturday claiming that the Iranian government ...

By Francis Ugwu Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has alleged that Facebook can never be trusted. Musk’s statement comes after a UK biologist and writer, Richard Dawkins complained that his entire Facebook account was deleted. “Facebook aka “Meta” can never be trusted,” Musk posted on X on ...

Civil defence teams are working to recover bodies of 58 passengers, four crew killed in fiery crash in Sao Paulo state. Authorities in Brazil are working to determine what caused a plane to crash in Sao Paulo state, killing all 62 people on board in one of the worst aviation incidents ...

As the war enters its 897th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, August 10, 2024. Fighting A Russian missile struck a supermarket in the Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka in the front-line Donetsk region, killing at least 14 people and injuring ...

Part of the military aid package will go to an Israeli army unit accused of serious rights abuses of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The United States will send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment, the Department of State has said, as ...

Israel carries out deadly air raid in Sidon, deep inside south Lebanon, amid intensifying regional tensions. Israel has stepped up its attacks in Lebanon, killing a Hamas official in the coastal city of Sidon, as the region continues to anticipate Hezbollah’s retaliation for the ...

A Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region – the largest since the war began with about 1,000 soldiers and more than two dozen tanks and other armoured vehicles storming over the border this week – poses a threat to a major gas supply line from Russia to the European Union. While it ...

Drying blood was smeared across a billboard advertising electronics, and black smoke billowed over the tangled metal remains of a supermarket after a Russian strike tore into Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine. Anya Alyabieva was dozing off in her shop, which sells hardware and military accessories ...

Golden day in Paris for Southeast Asian nation as speed climber Veddriq Leonardo and weightlifter Rizki Juniansyah win. Speed climber Veddriq Leonardo has handed Indonesia its first Olympic gold outside badminton after sprinting up a 15-metre wall to beat his Chinese rival by just ...

FTX has committed to a bankruptcy liquidation that will repay customers whose deposits were locked during its late 2022 collapse. A United States court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7bn in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission ...

Large crowd of supporters turns up to greet politician in Barcelona after seven years of self-imposed exile in Belgium. Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Spain after seven years of self-imposed exile and despite a pending warrant for his arrest. He appeared ...

By Matthew Atungwu Republican candidate, ex-US President, Donald Trump, has announced a short-notice media event at his Florida resort as rumblings of discontent hit his presidential campaign and poll numbers surged for his election rival Kamala Harris. Trump announced this in a one-sentence post ...

Barely a week after President Joe Biden dropped out from the US presidential race, his deputy Kamala Harris emerged as the top contender to get the Democratic nomination following a string of endorsements from senior party leaders, including former President Barack Obama. Other prominent ...

Washington, DC – In the United States political circles, conventional wisdom dictates that voters only care about the candidate atop the presidential ticket, not the running mate. While vice presidential picks can play a role in public opinion, voters cast ballots mostly for the headliners ...

By Francis Ugwu Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, has attacked United States Vice President Kamala Harris. Musk said Harris is ‘literally a communist’. In a post on his X handle on Wednesday, Musk said Harris wants not only merely equal opportunity but equal outcomes. He said: “Kamala is quite ...

Abortion was slightly more common across the U.S. in the first three months of this year than it was before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and cleared the way for states to implement bans, a report released Wednesday found. A major reason for the increase is that some ...

By Matthew Atungwu United States Vice President, Kamala Harris has chosen Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, as her running mate in the November Presidential election. Harris will face-off against Republican, ex-President Donald Trump. The 60-year-old Walz emerged as a dark horse contender and has ...

President of the Balkan nation expected to call for new vote after three parties fail to garner enough support to govern. Bulgaria is heading for its seventh parliamentary elections in three years after the last of three political parties tapped by President Rumen Radev to form a ...

Sheikh Hasina’s departure appears to have defused the high tension in Dhaka, where more deadly protests were feared on Monday. Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has reportedly resigned and fled the country in the face of ongoing protests. The longtime leader of the country has ...

The unexpected rise in the unemployment rate in the United States has left economists divided: Is the US on the brink of a recession or not? The unemployment rate jumped to a nearly three-year high of 4.3 percent in July, as per data released Friday. The increase – up from 4.1 percent in ...

Around this time, Shahid started working as a police officer while his eldest brother joined the army. They urged Nadeem to pursue javelin throwing. “He has always been a shy, quiet person who often keeps to himself. We both knew that he liked the sport but never spoke about it publicly,” ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has condemned the far right for the unrest and backed police to take strong action. Far-right protesters have clashed with police at several rallies as unrest linked to misinformation about the murder of three young girls in a stabbing attack spread across ...