BBC: Four children – a girl and three boys – have been “brutally stabbed and killed” at a school in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, the police have said. A 34-year-old suspect has been detained but “the motive behind the killings is still under investigation”, Uganda’s police force added in a brief statement on X. The school […]
BBC: More than 1,800 civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso since Ibrahim Traoré seized power three years ago in acts amounting to “war crimes and crimes against humanity”, a new report says. Human Rights Watch (HRW) says about 1,837 civilians, including dozens of children, were killed in 57 incidents between January 2023 and August […]
(Reuters) MOSCOW, April 2 – Students across Russia are being offered large financial incentives to join drone units fighting in Ukraine as operators and engineers, while companies in Russia’s central Ryazan region have been given quotas to sign up workers for the army, documents show. The recruitment effort, which comes as Russian forces continue to grind forwards […]
Al Jazeera: Oil prices rose more than $5 as President Donald Trump said the United States would continue attacks on Iran without committing to a specific timeline to end the war, fanning investor fears about sustained disruptions to supply. Brent crude futures LCOc1 rose $6.33, or 6.3 percent to $107.49 per barrel early on Thursday, while […]
BBC: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the Molucca Sea off Indonesia’s Ternate island early Thursday, killing at least one person. The quake, which struck at 06:48 local time (22:48 GMT) at a depth of 35km, sparked tsunami warnings which have since been withdrawn. A 70-year-old woman in North Sulawesi died after being crushed by building […]
(Reuters) WASHINGTON/TEL AVIV/CAIRO, April 1 – The United States will carry out aggressive strikes on Iran over the next two to three weeks and is nearing completion of its main strategic objectives in the war, President Donald Trump said in a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday. Addressing a war-weary U.S. public, Trump said his military had […]
BBC: The Supreme Court has appeared sceptical of President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, a sign the justices could strike down a key element of his immigration agenda. A majority of the court seemed unconvinced the US should stop granting citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary US visitors. The administration […]
BBC: South Africa’s army has officially been deployed to several parts of the country to help overwhelmed police clamp down on violent crimes, including illicit mining and gangs. President Cyril Ramaphosa earlier this year announced the deployment of 2,200 soldiers to five of the country’s nine provinces hardest hit by criminal activities. Authorities say the […]
(Reuters) PESHAWAR, Pakistan/Kabul, April 1 – Afghanistan and Pakistan have opened a new round of talks in China to end the deadliest fighting between two Muslim nations since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, sources said on Wednesday. Beijing has been trying to mediate a negotiated settlement to the conflict, which has claimed heavy losses […]
(Reuters) MOSCOW, April 1 – The Russian Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken full control of the Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, suggesting they had wrested control of a small sliver of land which had remained beyond their reach since 2022. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield report and a […]