At least 15 dead in India stampede at Hindu mega-festival
A pre-dawn stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering killed at least 15 people in India Wednesday, with many more…
A pre-dawn stampede at the world’s largest religious gathering killed at least 15 people in India Wednesday, with many more…
Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions.
The president of crisis-hit Democratic Republic of Congo was set to meet his Rwandan counterpart at an emergency summit on Wednesday, as fighters backed by Kigali appeared on the brink of seizing the key city of Goma.
The programme has shaken up the tech industry and hit US titans including Nvidia, the AI chip juggernaut that saw nearly $600 billion of its market value erased, the most ever for one day on Wall Street.
The border between Rwanda and DR Congo near the besieged city of Goma was closed on Monday, a European consulate source and witnesses said, hours after militia fighters and Rwandan troops entered the eastern Congolese regional capital.
Trump, less than a week back in office, responded furiously and threatened sanctions of 25 percent that would quickly scale up to 50 percent against Latin America’s fourth largest economy.
Our target was the distributors of such harmful videos,” said Napoleon Adok, director-general of the National Communication Authority, adding that they had not meant to shut down “the entirety of social media”.
Some of his orders delivered on promises he made during the 2024 campaign. Others, like a withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), had not been expected.
Donald Trump’s family will likely be less formally involved in White House business in his second term as they were in the first, but some will remain key to his political operation as unofficial advisors.
Speaking at the White House hours after his inauguration, Trump said the United States was paying far more to the UN body compared to China, adding: “World Health ripped us off.”