Category: Africa and the rest of the world

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s seven-year hideout in Ecuador’s London embassy dramatically ended Thursday when British police dragged him out and arrested him on a US extradition request. Footage from the Russian video news agency Ruptly showed Assange — his worn face framed by a bushy white beard and shock of silver hair — being hustled out of the building by […]

Ousted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir should be handed over to the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International said after the army overthrew his three-decade iron rule on Thursday. The London-based human rights organisation also urged the military authorities to ensure that new emergency laws do not undermine civil liberties. “Bashir is wanted for some of the […]

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament’s Parliamentary Recording Unit (PRU) shows Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May speaking in the House of Commons in London on April 11, 2019, as she updates MPs on Brexit, following her attendance at the EU Summit. – European leaders agreed with Britain on Thursday to delay […]

Members of the Saudi team that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi received training in the United States, the Washington Post has reported, revealing other new elements in the death of the newspaper’s former contributor. A critic of the Saudi regime, Khashoggi was killed and dismembered October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul by a team of 15 […]

President Donald Trump on Wednesday declared that the dramatic probe into links between his election campaign and Russia amounted to “treason.” Speaking on Fox News, Trump said the probe, which culminated in clearing him of allegations that he colluded with Moscow, a “very dark period” and he appeared to threaten those he blames for the […]

Over 1, 000 people are feared to have died in a cyclone that smashed into Mozambique last week, while scores have been killed and more than 150 are missing in neighbouring Zimbabwe. The city of Beira in central Mozambique bore Cyclone Idai’s full wrath on Thursday before the storm barrelled on to neighbouring Zimbabwe, unleashing […]

President Donald Trump on Friday said he was cancelling sanctions imposed by his own Treasury Department to tighten international pressure on North Korea. “It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea. I have today ordered the withdrawal of those […]

– Anger, grief sweep Mosul Relatives mourn over the body of a passenger who died in a ferry accident while crossing the Tigris river outside a morgue in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul AFP / Waleed AL-KHALED The capsizing of a Tigris River ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year in Mosul left […]

Assault rifles and semi-automatic weapons have been banned in New Zealand, with immediate effect, less than a week after a white supremacist gunned down 50 Muslim worshipers. The country imposed the ban on assault weapons Thursday, moving swiftly following the Christchurch massacre and triggering renewed calls from leading American politicians for gun controls in the […]

Police say gunman had planned a 3rd attack Zaed Mustafa, in wheelchair, brother of Hamza and son of Khalid Mustafa killed in the Friday, March 15 mosque shootings reacts during their burial at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, March 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Baker) A father and son who fled the […]