Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed no fewer than 42 people yesterday, Palestinian medics said. Despite the heavy death toll and international efforts to broker a cease-fire, Israeli ...

A Minneapolis Police Department training officer has taken the stand on the seventh day of the trial of former officer Derek Chauvin. Sergeant Ker Yang said Mr Chauvin’s training in crisis intervention was ...

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has said he has a persistent cough and temperature, and that there have been cases of tuberculosis in his prison. Meanwhile, the pro-Kremlin newspaper Izvestiya said the 44 year ...

Britain will on Monday set out plans to restart international travel, using a “traffic-light” system as the country cautiously emerges from lockdown. The announcement comes as the UK has set a tentative date of ...

President Joe Biden on Thursday said he expects to run for reelection in 2024 with Vice President Kamala Harris on the ticket. “The answer is yes, my plan is to run for reelection,” Biden said at his first ...

Some residents of Amarata area of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on Monday, foiled an armed robbery attack by rescuing the victim and recovering the sum of N10m cash. It was learnt that some suspected armed robbers, who ...

The long process of jury selection for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd’s death began Tuesday with three jurors picked and six others in the pool dismissed. Police officer Derek Chauvin ...

Ten people, including the two pilots, died when a plane crashed Tuesday at an airstrip in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, the region’s governor said. “It was with great shock and horror to receive the news of the ...

Nigeria’s former minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has resumed as the Director General of the World Trade Oerganisation. Ngozi now becomes the first woman and also African to lead the ...

President Joe Biden has revoked former President Donald Trump’s order that limited the number of new work visas for temporary foreign workers in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic.“The suspension of ...

The ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, has been killed in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country, Goma. Italy’s Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed that a ...

The daughters of assassinated US black civil rights leader Malcolm X have requested that the murder investigation be reopened in light of new evidence. They cite a deathbed letter from a man who was a policeman at ...

A 20-year-old woman has become the first protester to die in the anti-coup demonstrations in Myanmar after she was shot in the head. Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing was injured last week when police tried to disperse ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said his government will not be intimidated by Facebook blocking news feeds to users. He described the move to “unfriend Australia” as arrogant and ...

Nearly seven million people in the US state of Texas have been told to boil tap water before consuming it after a deadly winter storm caused power blackouts at treatment facilities. The huge storm sweeping across ...

The United Nations has said it will raise the detention of Princess Latifa, the daughter of Dubai’s ruler, with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Princess Latifa has accused her father of holding her hostage in ...

Shawn, the widow of legendary American broadcaster, Larry King, has gone to court to contest his will. He was worth two million dollars. On Monday Page Six reported that Larry King’s widow, Shawn King, planned to ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty on Monday to corruption charges at the resumption of his trial just weeks before national elections in which he hopes to extend his 12-year rule. At ...

President Joe Biden doesn’t believe former President Donald Trump should receive classified intelligence briefings, as is tradition for past presidents, citing Trump’s “erratic behavior unrelated ...

Myanmar’s military rulers have shut down the country’s internet, according to monitors, as thousands of people protest against this week’s coup. A near-total internet blackout is in effect, with ...