Sudan: warring sides agree to new ceasefire after fighting intensifies
Mediators from the US and Saudi Arabia broker pause after airstrikes on Khartoum kill 17 civilians including five children Sudan’s warring generals agreed to a...
Month : June 2023
Ecuador: ‘dead’ woman who was found alive in her coffin dies in intensive care
Bella Montoya, 76, who knocked on her coffin during her wake, has died seven days later from a stroke A 76-year-old woman who had been...
‘Horrific’ Canada highway crash leaves at least 15 dead
Incident involving semi-trailer truck and vehicle used to transport elderly and disabled people sparks huge emergency response At least 15 people are dead in Canada...
At least 41 people dead after IS-linked attack on Uganda school
Militants believed to be Allied Democratic Forces abducted others in attack on secondary school in Mpondwe Militants linked to Islamic State reportedly killed at least...
Canada police rush to identify 15 victims of deadly highway collision
Crash involving a truck and a bus carrying mostly elderly people in Manitoba was one of the country’s worst in recent years Police in the...
Germany’s return of sacred Kogi masks to Colombia may have health risks
Wooden artefacts dating from 15th century and bought from indigenous people were treated with pesticides while in museum Germany has returned two wooden masks of...
Canada’s supreme court upholds pact with US restricting asylum claims
Safe Third Country Agreement does not infringe refugee claimants’ rights to liberty and security of the person, court rules Canada’s top court has ruled that...
Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules
Authorities denied pregnant Indigenous girl her legal right to an abortion and ‘re-victimised’ her, UN child rights committee says Peru violated the rights of a...
‘I’m left with nothing’: Nigerians feel brunt of economic shakeup
President Tinubu’s policies please foreign investors, but a devalued currency and soaring petrol prices mean ‘national sacrifice mode’ is widely unpopular Nigerians are feeling the...
Sudan: paramilitary forces blamed for assassination of West Darfur governor
Khamis Abdallah Abbakar was murdered hours after criticising Rapid Support Forces on television Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been blamed for the assassination...
