Category: WORLD NEWS

A proposal by the South African government to legalise polyandry – when a woman has more than one husband at the same time – has led to howls of protest…

Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who killed George Floyd on a Minneapolis street last year, was sentenced Friday to 22 and half years in prison. Chauvin, in a light…

Anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee has been found dead in a Barcelona prison cell hours after a Spanish court agreed to extradite him to the US to face tax evasion…

Former Ivorian prime minister Guillaume Soro has rejected a verdict that sent him to prison for life. “I totally reject these unfair verdicts, which have been handed down in violation…

Singapore’s High Court sentenced a woman to 30 years in prison on Tuesday for killing her Myanmar domestic worker after more than a year of abuse that included starving, torturing…

Sweden’s parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. A total of 181 of the 349 MPs voted in favor of the motion, with 51…

Ten people – including nine children – have been killed after in a crash involving 18 vehicles in the storm-hit US state of Alabama on Saturday. Butler County Coroner Wayne…

Ethiopians are voting in key elections amid rising tensions and a bloody conflict in the northern Tigray region. This pandemic-delayed poll is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first electoral test since…

It was a quick turnaround for federal employers to recognize Juneteenth as a new federal holiday. But some cities were ready with new statues honouring George Floyd, whose killing by…

The US Supreme Court has ruled food giants Nestlé USA and Cargill can’t be sued for child slavery on African farms from where they buy their cocoa. Six African men…