The United Kingdom (UK) says it is sanctioning five Russian banks and three wealthy individuals. The development is coming after Moscow ordered troops into two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine. Addressing parliament on Tuesday, Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, said the sanction was the “first tranche” and “first barrage” of measures in response to […]

  Only a fraction of the apartments in Anna Velichko’s shell-scarred high-rise are fit for habitation after years of a war in Ukraine that could turn yet more brutal should Russia invade. The 39-year-old lives in one of them up on the ninth floor. From her rickety perch overlooking the frontline of eastern Europe’s festering […]

  A 31-year-old farmer, Charles Soglo has shot his wife, Doris Amoah in the chest and attempted to kill himself over her refusal to have sex with him. According to MyJoyOnline, the incident happened at Adansi Nyakumase in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Soglo was reported to have attempted suicide thinking he had killed his […]

  Four women activists in Afghanistan have been released by the country’s “de facto authorities” after going missing weeks ago, the United Nations said Sunday. “After a long period of uncertainty about their whereabouts and safety, the four ‘disappeared’ Afghan women activists, as well as their relatives who also went missing, have all been released […]

  President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau says calm has returned to the country following an attack on the presidential palace. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had described the attack as a coup attempt. “Calm returns to Bissau,” Embaló said in a post on his Facebook page. The post was accompanied by […]

  Sustained gunshots were heard near the presidential palace in Bissau, capital city of Guinea-Bissau, on Tuesday. Though it is not yet clear those behind the gunfire, soldiers are said to have surrounded the building where President Umaro Sissoco Embaló is reportedly attending a cabinet meeting. Since independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has suffered […]

  Ukraine, was said to have experienced extreme cold before he passed on. Rofeeha, Agbolauje’s older sister, had raised the alarm on social media that her family was informed that he was found dead in his room hours after he arrived at the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine. In a series of tweets shared by […]