The attack on al-Jaouni school, which killed more than a dozen Palestinians, has drawn condemnation from the UN and EU. An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter for displaced Palestinians in Gaza that killed 18 people has drawn fierce global condemnation. The attack flattened ...

By Seun Opejobi Ahead of the United States, US, Presidential election, President Joe Biden stirred controversy when he wore a red cap belonging to the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump. Biden wore the Make America Great Again, ...

Authorities in Borno State rush to provide shelter for residents displaced by the severe flooding. The collapse of a dam in northeast Nigeria has caused severe flooding, destroying thousands of homes and worsening a dire humanitarian crisis. The flooding in Borno State has affected ...

Polarising Latin American leader had been released from prison in December on humanitarian grounds. Alberto Fujimori, the polarising former leader of Peru who was credited with stabilising the Latin American country’s economy before being jailed for human rights abuses, has died at the ...

Millions of people across Southeast Asia struggled Thursday with flooded homes, power cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, as the death toll passed 200. In worst-hit Vietnam the fatalities rose to 197, with eight confirmed dead in ...

OAKLAND — A Bay Area man has been arrested and charged with starting an OnlyFans account that featured child sexual abuse material, court records show. Kevin Jimenez, 24, was charged Monday with one count of sexual exploitation of a child of possessing child pornography, both felonies. He ...

Tehran, Iran – Ukraine’s Western allies claim Iran has sent short-range ballistic missiles to Russia in a major escalation – a claim Tehran has rejected as “completely baseless and false” and pointed to what it sees as Western hypocrisy. The United States, Britain, France and Germany on ...

Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate as lawmakers weighed a radical reform to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the upper house to take a temporary recess for the safety of the senators. The shutdown came just hours after Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, wrangled the ...

Hours before United States Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in their high-stakes presidential debate, the US Census Bureau released some key economic data. While neither candidate mentioned it during the debate, it could prove crucial to the outcome ...

Perhaps the most famous celebrity in the world has finally weighed in on the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Pop superstar Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris moments after the conclusion of a debate between the Democratic nominee and her Republican opponent ...

Fifty-four people are still missing, authorities say, as the typhoon threatens to bring destruction to the capital Hanoi. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as floods inundated northern Vietnam in the wake of Typhoon Yagi, while the death toll from Asia’s ...

Most people were asleep when Israel’s bombs made a three-storey-deep crater and started a large fire. I’m Tala Herzallah, 22, from northern Gaza. I’m currently displaced and staying in al-Mawasi. This is what I saw on September 10, the day of the explosion: We were all asleep. ...

Kyiv, Ukraine – It was the biggest government reshuffle in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion began – and the timing could not be worse. Ukrainian forces continue to lose ground in the southeastern Donbas region even after trying to divert Moscow’s attention and manpower by ...

Ukraine is adding little-known incendiary weapons to its armoury in its battle to fend off the ongoing Russian invasion, including “fire-spitting” drones reminiscent of dragons. On Wednesday, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry posted videos on the social media platform X showing a Ukrainian drone ...

According to polls, Trump is leading Harris nationally by 48 to 47 percent, well within the margin of error. The US presidential race remains neck-and-neck according to polls released two days before Kamala Harris and Donald Trump hold their first – and potentially only – televised ...

As the war enters its 927th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 9, 2024. Fighting At least three people were killed and one injured after Russia struck the village of Cherkaske in the eastern Donetsk region with cluster munitions, ...

At least 61 people have been killed by Israeli attacks on Gaza in the last two days as Israel’s war on the besieged enclave enters its 12 month with little sign of respite for the Palestinian territory. Israeli air raids killed more than a dozen people overnight into Saturday, hospital and ...

Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will remain at the International Space Station until February 2025. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has landed in New Mexico, wrapping up a three-month test mission that faced technical issues and forced it to leave the two astronauts it carried ...

By Seun Opejobi Justice Juan M. Merchan on Friday delayed the sentencing of former United States President Donald Trump, in his hush money trial until after the November election. This was after the judge granted Trump a hard-won reprieve as he ...

Republican presidential nominee tells Jewish donors that his Democratic rival would ‘totally abandon’ Israel. Israel will cease to exist if United States Vice President Kamala is elected to the White House in November, former President Donald Trump has claimed. Addressing Jewish ...

A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting four people dead at a US high school, while his father was charged with manslaughter, authorities said Thursday, after the country’s latest outburst of gun violence. The teen faces four felony murder counts after allegedly ...

In July 2014, shortly after the kickoff of Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” in the Gaza Strip – a 51-day affair that ultimately killed 2,251 Palestinians, including 551 children – Danish journalist Nikolaj Krak penned a dispatch from Israel for the Copenhagen-based Kristeligt Dagblad ...

The Russian president claims Kyiv’s bid had an opposite effect, allowing Moscow to accelerate its offensive in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine’s weeks-long ongoing incursion in Russia’s Kursk region is aimed at slowing the Russian advance in the Ukrainian region of ...

Authorities in Monterey County have arrested a man suspected of massacring dozens of animals early Tuesday morning in Prunedale, including miniature horses, rabbits and birds, the Sheriff’s Office said. Salinas man Vicente Joseph Arroyo, 39, allegedly began to randomly fire multiple ...

As the war enters its 923rd day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Fighting At least seven people, including three children, were killed in a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv on the border with ...

Over the weekend, news emerged that believed "Russian spy" beluga whale Hvalidmir had died. But perhaps fittingly — considering his mysterious past as a possible foreign agent — the circumstances surrounding his death sound increasingly bizarre. Regina Haug, the founder of animal rights ...

US Democratic nominee’s proposal is latest effort to erase Donald Trump’s polling advantage on economic issues. United States Vice President Kamala Harris is set to unveil a tax deduction of up to $50,000 for new small businesses as the Democratic nominee seeks to burnish her economic ...

The British government has suspended some arms export licences to Israel, saying the weapons could be used to commit violations of international humanitarian law. But the move, which comes amid lingering international criticism of Israel’s killing of more than 40,000 Palestinians in the ...

  The United States has seized a private jet reportedly tied to Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, claiming it was acquired illegally and smuggled out of the country in violation of U.S. laws. The plane, a Falcon 900EX, was confiscated in the Dominican ...

The Indian Air Force flies more than 200 rescue officers and 30 tonnes of emergency aid to Telangana and Andhra Pradesh states. Intense monsoon rains and floods in India’s southern states have killed at least 25 people, with thousands rescued and taken to relief camps, officials say. ...

China became the leading spender on chipmaking equipment this year, as Chinese semiconductor producers invested a remarkable $25 billion in the first half of 2024. This spending exceeds the combined investments of South Korea, Taiwan, and the U.S., reports Nikkei, indicating China’s aggressive ...

Polio has made a comeback in the Gaza Strip after 25 years, forcing the United Nations and local health authorities to launch a vaccination campaign in the Palestinian enclave ravaged by 11 months of Israeli bombardment. Some 640,000 children below 10 years are expected to receive oral ...

Schools and government offices shut down in capital Manila, while ferry services and domestic flights are suspended. A fierce tropical storm has caused floods and landslides that have killed up to 11 people in the Philippines. Tropical Storm Yagi lashed the north of the country ...

As the war enters its 920th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Monday, September 2, 2024. Fighting At least 47 people were injured in a Russian attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-biggest city. Officials said Russia fired at least 10 missiles on the ...

The Israeli siege of the West Bank city of Jenin has left Palestinians with no food, water or electricity, with medical charity Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, accusing Israeli forces of obstructing access to health facilities and targeting ambulances. “All basic ...

Israel’s military has announced that its troops have recovered the bodies of six captives, including a dual US national, from a tunnel in southern Gaza, as it continued its 11-month long, deadly assault on Palestinian enclave. More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel ...

  By Francis Ugwu President Joe Biden has said Hamas will surely pay for killing an American hostage, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Biden stated this while reacting to Goldberg-Polin’s death, saying he is devastated and outraged by the news. DAILY POST ...

By Francis Ugwu Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin has been confirmed dead, his family announced early Sunday. Fox News reports that five other Israeli bodies were also recovered on Saturday. The report stated that the six victims ...

By Seun Opejobi The United States, US, Republic presidential candidate, Donald Trump, on Sunday warned Americans against his counterpart from the Democrat, Kamala Harris. Trump warned that Harris would bring ...

Alcaraz crumbled against Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp while Osaka lost to Czech Karolina Muchova. Carlos Alcaraz, the reigning champion of this year’s first two Grand Slams, and Naomi Osaka have both been knocked out of the US Open at Flushing Meadows. Alcaraz crumbled to a 6-1, ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Nigeria ranks among the top 20 countries globally that received United States permanent residency status visas, known as green cards. This is contained in BusinessDay reports, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Department ...

Republican presidential candidate’s comments latest bid to present a moderate image on reproductive issues. Donald Trump has pledged to make in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment free for all women and criticised a six-week abortion ban in Florida, the latest bid by the Republican to ...

On Thursday, US Vice President and presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will sit down for her first major broadcast interview since she became the face of the Democratic Party following President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race. She will be joined by her running mate, Tim Walz, for the ...

Ukraine is pushing its Western allies for additional air defences and to use weapons to attack targets in Russia. The European Union’s top diplomat has ramped up pressure on Ukraine’s supporters to lift the restrictions on the use of Western weapons inside Russia. In advance of a ...

Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes says platform faces ban unless Musk names legal representative within 24 hours. Brazil’s top court has threatened to ban X unless its billionaire owner Elon Musk names a legal representative in the Latin American country within 24 hours. ...

As Canada moves towards a major immigration overhaul, tens of thousands of international students have taken to the streets to protest the new policies introduced by the Justin Trudeau-led federal government. According to a report by City News Toronto, approximately ...

UN has been forced to evacuate its humanitarian aid hub a second time since the start of the war, official says. United Nations aid operations in the besieged Gaza Strip continue a day after a senior UN official said humanitarian efforts had ground to a halt because new Israeli ...

IAEA head Rafael Grossi says Kursk nuclear plant’s proximity to the fighting is ‘extremely serious’. A nuclear plant located in western Russia where fighting is raging between Russian and Ukrainian forces is vulnerable to a serious accident because it lacks a protective dome that could ...

Russia has launched waves of missile and drone attacks targeting several Ukrainian regions killing at least four people, according to Ukraine’s military, a day after it carried out a “massive” attack on Ukraine’s power grid. Two people were killed when a hotel was “wiped out” in the ...

Canada will allow in fewer temporary foreign workers under tightened rules announced Monday, part of a turnaround in its generous immigration policy that has resulted in an unwieldy surge of newcomers. The rules include reinstituting a ban on temporary foreign ...