Category: Africa and the rest of the world

South Africa’s retired archbishop and anti-apartheid icon, Desmond Tutu was hospitalised in Cape Town on Thursday for “a series of tests”, his office said. “The Archbishop was in good spirits after settling into his ward. He hopes to be back home in a few days,” said a statement released by his office. The Nobel Peace […]

President Muhammadu Buhari addressing members states of United Nations’ General Assembly at Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New York – Nigeria seeks expansion of Security Council President Muhammadu Buhari has called on world leaders to emulate values of former South African President, Nelson Mandela, by prioritising dignity in their quest to ensure just, peaceful and […]

Cardinal Reinhard Marx said he was ashamed over the decades of abuse carried out by Catholic Church officials in Germany PHOTO: AFP Germany’s Catholic Church on Tuesday apologised to victims of sexual assault by clergy, with the institution’s top cardinal saying perpetrators must be brought to justice. Cardinal Reinhard Marx said he was ashamed over […]

A showdown looms at the United Nations over Iran on Tuesday as President Donald Trump and Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani are set to square off during the world’s biggest diplomatic gathering. On the opening day of the General Assembly debate, Trump and Rouhani are to take their turn at the podium four months after the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that North Korea is taking a lot of steps toward de-nuclearising the Korean Peninsula but Washington is not responding and is making endless demands for full disarmament instead. Washington and Pyongyang have been discussing North Korea’s nuclear programme since their leaders met in Singapore in June. The summit’s […]

UN secretary-General The UN says 821 million people globally were undernourished in 2017. According to a report “The State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World, put together by UNICEF, the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the World Food Programme, the number […]

Donald Trump Jr. US President Donald Trump’s eldest son said he was not worried that he could be jailed over his role in the Russia probe, but suggested investigators might try to “create” legal difficulties for him. In an interview with ABC that aired Tuesday, he also attacked as “disgusting” the senior administration official who […]

Onlookers and rescuers gather round a bus that crashed in Jagtial district in India’s southern Telangana state on September 11, 2018 Fifty people died when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern India on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents on the country’s notorious roads in recent years. Road crashes in […]

A UN-backed ocean cleanup vessel aiming at cleaning up 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic debris in the Pacific Ocean has left San Francisco on its first voyage. The vessel, which was deployed in San Francisco, consists of a 600-meter long floater that sits at the surface of the water and a tapered three-meter deep skirt […]

Some of the Russian tanks taking part in the world’s biggest military drills ever Russia has begun the world’s largest military drills, involving 300,000 soldiers. The week-long deployment dubbed “Vostok-2018” (East-2018), which kicked off in eastern Siberia and includes the Chinese and Mongolian armies, has been condemned by NATO as a rehearsal for “large-scale conflict”. […]