Car hits Paris cafe terrace, one dead, several seriously hurt
AFP PARIS – A motorist ploughed a car into a cafe terrace in Olympic host city Paris on Wednesday evening, killing one person and seriously injuring several others in a…
DR Congo conflict fuels forest loss
Reuters KIBATI, Democratic Republic of Congo – Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal,…
China says it has halted arms-control talks with US over Taiwan
REUTERS WASHINGTON/BEIJING – China has halted nascent nuclear-arms-control talks with the United States, its foreign ministry said on Wednesday, in a protest of Washington’s arms sales to the democratically governed…
Biden tests positive for COVID-19, White House says
Reuters LAS VEGAS – U.S. President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on…
Biden calls for ban on gun used to shoot Trump
BBC LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden has renewed a call for Congress to ban assault rifles, including the model that was used in the failed assassination attempt on former…
Nigeria’s secret police, DSS finally allows IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu to see doctor amid complicated health conditions
Ayomidele Oluwasusi Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Special Counsel for the illegally-detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), has announced that Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS),…
Suspected terrorists kill Nigerian soldier in Plateau State, flee with victim’s service weapon
Olayomi Koiki A Nigerian Army corporal, identified as Folorunsho Lukman, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be terrorists. The soldier was reportedly attacked on his farm in Kampani Zurak…
Gaza man with Down’s syndrome attacked by IDF dog and left to die: report
BBC There was always his family. When he was bullied at school, and beaten, they were there to embrace him when he came home. And when the war started and…
Police have reportedly arrested the son of Nigeria’s Borno State Governor Zulum for killing Chinese national during fight over woman at a nightclub in India. The government of the terror-ravaged state denied this in a statement
NEW DELHI, India/ABUJA, Nigeria – One Umar Zulum Umara, who is a son to Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Nigeria’s Borno State was reportedly arrested by police for killing a…
Kenya’s populist president has misread the popular mood
FT In May, William Ruto, Kenya’s president, was being feted by the White House at a glittering gala dinner hosted by Joe Biden in the first state visit by an…