A tropical storm followed by heavy rainfall has killed at least 16 people in Madagascar, emergency services say. Seventeen people remain missing after Tropical Storm Cheneso hit, according to the…
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Germany: Foreign office apologises for sending a tweet that caused offence in Africa
Germany’s foreign office says it’s “sorry” for sending a tweet that caused offence in Africa by using a stereotype about the continent. The tweet was a dig at Russian Foreign…
Uganda: Woman told to pay ex-fiancé for breaking his heart
A Ugandan woman who broke up with her fiancé has been ordered to pay him financial damages for psychological anguish. The court in Kanungu said Richard Tumwine paid 9.4m shillings…
Kenya: Authorities push for one-pub-per-town order to fight alcoholism
Kenya’s deputy president has ordered government administrators in the country’s central region to enforce a one-pub-per-town directive that was issued last week. Rigathi Gachagua also wants entertainment joints in the…
UK: Woman lay dead in a flat for three years
A mentally ill woman was discovered in a “mummified, almost skeletal state” after lying dead for more than three years in her flat, her family say. Laura Winham, 38, was…
Haiti: Police riot after crime gangs kill 14 officers
Rebel police officers rioted in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Thursday in protest at the killing of more than a dozen colleagues by criminal gangs. The rioting officers blame the government…
USA: Colombian drug lord Otoniel pleads guilty
Notorious Colombian cocaine trafficker Dairo Antonio Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, has pleaded guilty to drug charges in a US court. Otoniel was the leader of Colombia’s most powerful criminal…
Japan: Authorities hunt for the person who faxed bomb threats to schools
Japanese police are on the hunt for a person who sent bomb and death threats to hundreds of schools, prompting hasty closures. The threats were faxed to high schools and…
Space: Asteroid 2023 BU (Space rock) passes closer than some satellites
Now it’s over, we can say it: a biggish asteroid passed by Earth a short while ago. About the size of a minibus, the space rock, known as 2023 BU,…
West Bank: Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Jenin
Nine Palestinians have been killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank – the deadliest in years – Palestinian officials say. A woman aged 60 was reported…