Beyond the Headlines
Rescuers in remote villages of northwest China dug through the rubble of collapsed homes on Tuesday after China’s deadliest earthquake in years killed at least 118 people and injured hundreds more. Officials in impoverished Gansu province said the shallow tremor just before midnight had caused the deaths of at least 105 and injured almost […]
No fewer than 95 people have died and another 220 are injured following an earthquake in north-west China on Monday, state media report. The quake struck in Gansu province around midnight, damaging buildings both there and in the neighbouring province of Qinghai. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the quake had a magnitude of […]
Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has won a new six-year term with 89.6 per cent of the vote, the election authority announced Monday. Turnout reached an “unprecedented” 66.8 per cent of voters, said authority head Hazem Badawy. Over 39 million had cast their ballots for Sisi, a former army chief who has ruled the […]
The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday ordered the immediate release of Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s president who has been held captive since the coup that overthrew him on July 26, and that of his family. The Court “orders the defendant (the military authorities in Niamey, editor’s […]
The ECOWAS Commission said more than 4.8 million people across Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are facing food insecurity resulting from the spate of terrorist attacks and military takeover of their governments. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, said this in his address at the 51st Ordinary Session of the Mediation and Security […]
US President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was unsure if he would be seeking reelection next year were Republican rival Donald Trump not also trying for a second term. “If Trump wasn’t running, I’m not sure I’d be running. But we cannot let him win,” the 81-year-old Democrat told a 2024 election campaign fundraiser […]
A Ugandan woman aged 70 has given birth to twins, her doctor said Thursday, in what the mother hailed as a miracle. Safina Namukwaya described her joy at the arrival of the twins who were born on Wednesday at a medical facility in the capital Kampala, where she had received fertility treatment. “This is […]
At least 27 people died in a massive fire that broke out at a drug rehabilitation centre in northern Iran early on Friday, the judiciary said. “Twenty-seven have died and 12 others were taken to hospital after a fire erupted at a drug rehabilitation centre in Langarud”, a city in Gilan province north of […]
Sanctions and suspension of international finance and aid have left the economy of Niger, one of the world’s poorest countries, hanging by a thread three months after a July 26 military coup. International Financial Support Suspended The European Union (EU), a key partner for the Sahel nation, had allocated 503 million euros (554 […]
India will reopen visa services for Canadians, its embassy in Ottawa announced Wednesday, a move that could reduce tensions in a bitter dispute over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Relations between India and Canada plunged after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last month publicly linked Indian intelligence to the killing of […]
