President Donald Trump has delivered a stern warning to Iran over alleged rocket attacks on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. The warning came in a tweet which includes a photograph of three unexploded rocket shells that the president claimed came from Iran. “Our embassy in Baghdad got hit Sunday by several rockets. Three rockets failed […]
A gunman has shot dead three police officers who were called to a domestic incident in central France. The officers were trying to help a woman who had fled to the roof of a house in the small village of Saint-Just early on Wednesday, reports the BBC. The gunman shot at the officers before setting […]
A couple forced their neighbours to sexually abuse their own four-year-old daughter, then they tortured the child to death, police say. Kourtney Aumen, 21, and her partner Ethan Mast, 35, are said to have beaten their neighbours’ young child from head to toe and dunked her in a freezing lake, before leaving her to die […]
Six Ukrainians were among the eight crew members abducted from a Cameroon-flagged STEVIA cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria by pirates. Spokesman for Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Oleg Nikolenko, was quoted as confirming the abduction of the six Ukrainians on Saturday the Ukrinform news agency. He, however, did not confirm the nationality of the other […]
At least nine coronavirus patients died on Saturday after an oxygen tank explosion triggered a fire at a hospital in southeastern Turkey, the health ministry said. The blaze in an intensive care ward of the hospital in Gaziantep broke out when a tank on an artificial respirator exploded. “We are profoundly saddened by this tragedy,” […]
A 2-year-old boy, Dima, was allegedly strangled to death and thrown in an oven by his grandparents. Parents of the toddler, Maria, 20, and Dmitry Shcherbakovy, 25, had arrived to pick up their two-year-old son, from his grandparents only to find his burned remains dumped in the snow. Daily Mirror reports that the incident happened […]
Chadian President, Idriss Debby, on Wednesday, met with Nigerian officials, including Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum and Nigerian Ambassador to Chad, Zannah Umar Bukar Kolo, over the return of thousands of Nigerian refugees in the country. Most of the refugees from Borno State fled to chad following attacks by insurgents since 2014. Malam […]
Eleven people have been killed in fresh clashes in southern Chad between nomadic herders and farmers , according to a prosecutor in the region. Fighting took place on Sunday and Monday in a village in East Tandjile province after cattle destroyed a field of crops , prompting farmers to attack the herders. Violence between sedentary […]
Omah Lay and Tems, two fast-rising Nigerian singers, have regained freedom from detention in Uganda — about three days after they were arrested. Bebe Cool, a Uganda singer, broke the news on Tuesday alongside documents confirming their release. In the documents, Okumu Jude Muwone, the presiding judge who doubles as the chief magistrate of Makindye, […]
The deputy governor of Kabul was killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan’s capital city on Tuesday. Security officials added that a sticky bomb was attached to his car by unknown assailants. Mahboobullah Mohebi, the deputy governor was travelling with his security guards when the blast occurred. Two guards were injured in the blast. No […]
