Category: WORLD NEWS

The show director of the Olympics opening ceremony has been dismissed, one day before the event is due to be held. Footage of Kentaro Kobayashi from the 1990s recently emerged…

The government in Tanzania is reviewing a newly imposed levy on mobile money following a public outcry. The tax, which took effect on 15 July after being approved by the…

At least 80 people have died and hundreds more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades. Record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to…

Cuba has temporarily lifted import duties on food, medicine and other essentials following recent unrest. As of next Monday, there will be no limit on such goods brought in by…

One man has died during rare anti-government demonstrations in Cuba that have shaken the island in recent days. Diubis Laurencio Tejeda, 36, died in a suburb of Havana on Monday…

Some seventeen people have died after a hotel collapsed in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou. After 36 hours of search operations, rescue workers found 23 people buried in the…

Two US citizens are among 28 people detained over the assassination of Haiti’s president, the chief of national police has said. Jovenel Moise, 53, was shot dead by suspected mercenaries…

South African former President Jacob Zuma turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama…

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has hailed security agencies for the arrest of Igbo separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu and the raid on Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo’s home. It’s the first time…