Thirteen people were killed and 12 others are reported missing following fierce fighting between two rival factions of the rebel Sudanese Liberation Movement-Nur (SLM-Nur) group in Central Darfur state, western…
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Ivory Coast: Authorities announce plan to triple forest cover
Ivory Coast has announced a project to triple its forest cover by 2030. It has lost nearly all of its forests in the last 50 years, primarily because of cocoa…
Kenya: Policeman to be charged with murder
A Kenyan policeman who gained notoriety after mobile phone footage showed him gunning down two men in 2017 is to be charged with murder. Kenya’s police watchdog, the Independent Police…
Australia: Python bites and drags Five-year-old into a swimming pool
A five-year-old Australian boy has survived being bitten, constricted and dragged into a swimming pool by a python about three times his size. Beau Blake was enjoying a swim at…
Russia: Parliament passes ‘Answer to Blinken’ gay propaganda law
Russia’s lower house of parliament has unanimously voted to extend its ban on gay propaganda. Under the latest version of the law, any promotion of homosexuality – including in books,…
Israel: One dead, several injured in two explosions in Jerusalem
At least one person was killed and 12 others injured in two separate explosions that rocked Jerusalem city, according to Israeli officials. Israeli police said that the incidents on Wednesday…
Nigeria: Central Bank launches new banknotes to help curb corruption
Nigeria has launched newly designed currency notes, a move that the West African nation’s central bank says will help curb inflation and money laundering. Experts, however, are sceptical about such…
Indonesia: Six-year-old boy pulled alive from earthquake rubble after 2 days
Rescuers in Indonesia have pulled a six-year-old boy from the rubble of his collapsed house in Cianjur, after he survived the earthquake because he was protected by a mattress. The…
Uganda: Health minister reports ‘downward trend’ in Ebola cases
Uganda has recorded a drop in the number of new Ebola cases, with some districts going for at least two weeks without registering new infections, health ministry officials said. The…
UK: Lecturers, teachers, postal workers begin strike over pay
Thousands of postal workers, university lecturers and schoolteachers in the UK have gone on strike to demand better pay and working conditions amid the country’s cost-of-living crisis. Picket lines were…