Health authorities said the disease presents in the form of a respiratory illness. A previously unknown disease making the rounds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a severe form of malaria, the country’s health ministry has announced. Health authorities on Tuesday said ...

Lieutenant General Kirillov killed outside an apartment building in the Russian capital. A bomb hidden in an electric scooter has killed a senior general in charge of nuclear protection forces in Moscow, Russia’s investigative committee said. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who ...

Move comes days after rebel groups toppled Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president again. Israel’s government has approved a plan to increase the number of settlers in the illegally occupied Golan Heights, days after seizing more Syrian territory ...

DRC presidency says talks had hit deadlock over a Rwandan demand that the DRC hold direct dialogue with M23. Peace talks between the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to end the conflict in the eastern DRC have been called off, according to the Angolan ...

Here is the situation on Saturday, December 14: Fighting Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in an aerial attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described as one of the largest yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv needed more Western support before any peace with ...

Outgoing Biden administration eager to fast-track more packages before aid-sceptic Trump takes office early next year. The United States will give $500m in military aid to Ukraine as part of an 11th-hour push by outgoing President Joe Biden to bolster the country’s defences before he ...

Brazilian president is doing well and should be discharged early next week, his medical team says. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has undergone a second surgical procedure after seeking treatment this week for an intracranial haemorrhage, his medical team said. Lula’s ...

Palestinian authorities have said that at least 33 people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, as Israel continues to conduct devastating attacks across the strip. The Government Media Office in Gaza called the Thursday attack a “barbaric and ...

Hospital says that the Brazilian leader is doing well as he prepares for his second surgery of the week following a fall at home. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to undergo a second medical procedure to address bleeding on the surface of his brain, according to ...

Month-long search for Ryan Borgwardt after faked death in Wisconsin cost $35,000, law enforcement officials say. A man in the United States who faked his drowning before fleeing to Eastern Europe has returned home and is set to face charges, according to authorities. Ryan Borgwardt ...

Here is the situation on Wednesday, December 11: Military Ukraine’s National Police said four people were killed and 19 injured in a Russian missile attack on a private medical clinic in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said a kamikaze ...

Israeli forces also bomb weapons depots in southern Syria and the capital Damascus, Israeli media reports. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he ordered Israeli forces to “seize” a buffer zone in the occupied Golan Heights established by a 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, after a ...