Category: WORLD NEWS

The Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen’s “strength and stay” for 73 years, has died aged 99. Flags on landmark buildings in Britain were being lowered to half-mast as a period…

Sex workers in a Brazilian city have gone on strike for a week, demanding to be included in the group of front-line workers receiving priority coronavirus vaccines. Pandemic-related hotel closures…

A journalist working with Kenya’s state broadcaster was shot dead at her home in the outcasts of the capital Nairobi. Two gunmen entered Betty Barasa’s home as she was driving…

Brazil has recorded more than 4,000 Covid-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time, as a more contagious variant fuels a surge in cases. Hospitals are overcrowded, with people…

A group has been arrested in Dubai and charged with public debauchery after an outdoor nude photoshoot. Video footage posted online on Saturday shows a group of naked women having…

Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera’s press secretary has blamed the former administration for a neglected state house despite funds being allocated for renovations, local media has reported. Brian Banda says most…

President Joe Biden addressed a litany of key foreign policy issues facing the US during his first news conference on Thursday, notably warning North Korea against conducting further ballistic missile…

Kenya has run out of ICU beds as the country deals with a surge in Covid-19 cases, the doctors’ union has said. Healthcare workers were among those admitted at various…

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Sunday that the bloc will not share coronavirus vaccines with other countries until it has “a better production situation in the…

Samia Suluhu Hassan looked solemn during proceedings that saw her make history to become Tanzania’s first female president. The 61-year-old took her oath of office in the commercial capital, Dar…