Lebanon’s lead investigator into the catastrophic Beirut port explosion charged outgoing premier Hassan Diab and three ex-ministers with negligence on Thursday, a judicial source said. They are the first politicians to be indicted over the devastating August 4 blast that killed more than 200 people, disfigured the heart of the capital and stoked a wave […]
A female Afghan news anchor and activist was shot dead by assailants Thursday, her employer said, the second journalist killed in a month in Afghanistan. Malalai Maiwand, in her 20s, was killed along with her driver Mohammad Tahir in the eastern city of Jalalabad as they travelled to work, said Enekaas TV, the private television […]
Five people have been killed in violence linked to Ghana’s elections, the police said on Wednesday. “Sixty-one electoral and post-electoral incidents nationwide” were reported, they said in a statement issued two days after the vote. Of these, 21 “are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting in the death of five.” […]
An Ethiopian spokesman on Tuesday said that the country’s forces fired on a UN team, claiming they ignored instructions and drove through government checkpoints in the northern region of Tigray. The shooting came as the UN and aid agencies are continuing to seek access to northern Ethiopia, more than a week after fighting there was […]
Here’s a head-scratcher: The use of cash has been declining for years in Britain, but demand for banknotes is skyrocketing. Nobody is quite sure where the money is going. A group of UK lawmakers said on Friday as much as £50 billion ($67.4 billion) in cash was “missing,” and it urged the Bank of England […]
A 43 year-old maid faces up to a year in jail for mixing her employer’s family food with her urine and menstrual blood. The good news is that the family ate the food, with no deleterious side effect. Filipino Canares Rowena Ola, who lives in Sengkang, Singapore, allegedly tainted the food in December 2018. She […]
Debretsion Gebremichael told AFP by phone he was determined to remain in Tigray and fight “as long as these invaders are on our land,” raising the spectre of extended hostilities. Abiy, winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, this month ordered military operations against Debretsion and other leaders of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) […]
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday urged Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to end fighting, voicing concern as a military offensive pursued the Tigray region’ s dissident leaders . Pompeo in a phone call with Abiy “ called for a complete end to the fighting and constructive dialogue to resolve the crisis , […]
A Chinese court jailed 53 people on Monday after convicting them on charges including bribery and negligence over a massive chemical factory explosion in eastern China last year that killed 78 people. The blast in Jiangsu province in March 2019 was one of the worst industrial accidents in the country in recent years and led […]
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday that Tigray region’ s dissident leaders had fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting but said federal forces were monitoring them closely. Abiy, winner of last year ’ s Nobel Peace Prize , this month ordered military operations against leaders of Tigray’ s ruling party, […]
