An attacker stabbed 10 people to death in Kerman province in southern Iran due to “personal differences”, before being arrested by police, state media reported Monday. On Sunday, “an Afghan national killed ten people due to personal differences in Rafsanjan,” Hossein Rezai, acting governor of the city, was quoted as saying by state news […]

  Laurent Gbagbo, former president of Cote d’Ivoire who was sentenced to prison for misappropriating public funds, has been granted presidential pardon. Alassane Ouattara, president of Cote d’Ivoire, announced the development on Saturday in his address ahead of the country’s 62nd independence anniversary. Cote d’Ivoire got its independence on August 7, 1960. According to Ouattara, […]

  A Texas jury ordered US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Friday to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages for falsely claiming that the deadly 2012 Sandy Hook elementary shooting was a “hoax.” The verdict came a day after the same jury awarded a couple whose child died at Sandy Hook $4.1 million in compensatory […]

  China said Friday it was ending cooperation with the United States on a litany of key issues including climate change, anti-drug efforts and military talks, as relations between the two superpowers nosedive over Taiwan. Beijing has reacted furiously to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan, which it claims as its […]

  A Nigerian woman, identified as Beauty living in the southern Calabrian city of Catanzaro, Italy has accused her employer of hitting her because she demanded her salary on Tuesday. The 25-year-old who reported the assault at a police station in Soverato backed her report with the video of the alleged aggression she filmed as […]

  his screen grab from a video by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command on August 4, 2022 made available on the Eurovision Social Newswire (ESN) platform via AFPTV shows a missile being fired during a Chinese military exercise in China on August 4, 2022. (Photo by various sources / AFP) Taiwan blasted […]

  China has announced sanctions on Nancy Pelosi, United States house speaker, over her visit to Taiwan. Pelosi landed on the island on Tuesday — the highest-ranking American politician to do so in 25 years — despite a previous warning issued by China against the visit. Chinese President Xi Jinping had reportedly told US President […]

  China fired ballistic missiles and deployed fighter jets and warships on Thursday as it held its largest-ever military exercises around Taiwan, a show of force sparked by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island. Pelosi was the highest-profile US official to visit Taiwan in years, defying a series of stark threats from […]

  On her trip to Asia, the Speaker of the United States (U.S.) House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, expressed concerns about the growing tensions on the Korean peninsula. The way the threats from North Korea were increasing was becoming a worrying situation for both of them. Pelosi gave the concern in a joint statement with […]

  Taiwan’s Defence Ministry has confirmed that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) fired “several Tongfeng-class guided missiles” into waters north-east and south-west of the island on Thursday afternoon. A ministry spokesperson said shortly that Taiwan’s armed forces had tracked the firings in real time after they were detected at 1:56 pm (0556 GMT) and had […]