At least 40 farmers have been killed in an attack by armed groups in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno State, according to government officials. Fighters from the Boko Haram group and ISIL (ISIS)…
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Pakistan: Authorities watche with caution as old ally Taliban gets closer to India
When the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, then-Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan famously said the Afghan group had “broken the shackles of slavery” as they returned to…
Lebanon: President Joseph Aoun names ICJ judge Nawaf Salam as PM-designate
Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the backing of…
UK: Parking charges to increase for town’s polluting cars
Higher polluting vehicles will cost more to park in a county town, a local authority has proposed. Those with the highest carbon dioxide emissions would see charges more than double…
UK: Burst pipe collapses road and disrupts supplies
Residents have been left with little or no water after a pipe burst and part of a road collapsed. Twenty properties on Kidmore Road in Caversham Heights, Berkshire, have been…
UK: Two arrested after Charles Darwin grave spray-painted
Two women have been arrested after climate protestors spray-painted over the grave of Charles Darwin inside Westminster Abbey. Climate protest group Just Stop Oil (JSO) said two activists used spray…
Canada: Not going to be the 51st US state- PM Justin Trudeau
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has re-iterated that Canada has no intention to become the 51st state of the US. “It’s not going to happen,” he said. Speaking to former…
Ukraine: Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is willing to hand over two captured North Korean soldiers to Pyongyang in exchange for Ukrainian prisoners of war in Russia. “For those North…
UK: Temperature drops to -18.9C in Highland village
Temperatures in a hamlet in northern Scotland dropped to -18.9C (-2F) in the early hours of Saturday – the UK’s coldest January night in 15 years. It is the coldest…
Mayotte: Island hit by floods and mudslides from second storm
The French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte has been hit by further heavy rains, leading to flooding and mudslides, one month after Cyclone Chido devastated large parts of the islands…