Somalis search for love online, but don’t call it dating
The makers of Guurdoon, the first app for singles in Somalia, are hoping to help their fellow citizens find love...
Year: 2023
Sierra Leone’s battle to keep pregnant girls in school
Hawa used to relish competing with her cousin for top marks in school until, eight months ago, she fell pregnant....
Elton John, Guns N’Roses primed as Glastonbury music festival opens
The iconic Glastonbury Festival opens its doors on Wednesday, with 200,000 music fans set to descend on a farm in...
African concerns mount as West pours aid into Ukraine
African countries are casting a worried eye as the West pumps aid into Ukraine, sensing a retreat in pledges to...
Four shot dead near West Bank settlement
Four people were shot dead Tuesday near a settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials said, a day after...
UN urges Sudan neighbors to keep borders open as exodus tops 500,000
The head of the UN's refugee agency on Tuesday urged Sudan's neighbors to keep their borders open despite security worries...
Iranian taekwondo exile flies the flag for refugees at European Games
Kasra Mehdipournejad has seen neither his Iranian parents nor siblings for six years since they advised him to remain in...
France’s ‘Mr Titanic’ among sub missing
A French submarine operator and daredevil deep-sea explorer dubbed "Mr Titanic" is among the crew of a submarine which has...
Court mulls case against Spain govt over climate inaction
Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday began examining a case filed by Greenpeace and other environmental groups accusing the central government...
From women to LGBTQ members, Catholic Church ponders inclusion
From welcoming LGBTQ Catholics to better representation of women, the Vatican published on Tuesday a reflection on the top social...
Spat at UN rights council over open-ended Israel probe
The United States, on behalf of 27 countries, condemned Tuesday the open-ended nature of the UN investigation into alleged human...
Albanian police raid Iranian dissidents camp
Albanian police on Tuesday raided a camp home to members of an Iranian opposition movement, with local media reporting that...
Sudan war uproots 2.5 million, UN says, as bodies litter Darfur streets
More than 2.5 million people have been uprooted by Sudan's conflict, the UN said Tuesday, but in the western Darfur...
Sudan war uproots 2.5 million, UN says, as bodies litter Darfur streets
More than 2.5 million people have been uprooted by Sudan's conflict, the UN said Tuesday, but in the western Darfur...
Uganda arrests 20 ‘collaborators’ over horrific school massacre
Ugandan police said Monday that 20 people had been arrested for suspected collaboration with the notorious militia group blamed for...
UN raises alarm over ‘rampant’ violence in east DR Congo
The United Nations sounded the alarm on Monday over "rampant violence and rising humanitarian needs" in the violence-plagued eastern Democratic...
Six dead, eight wounded in Ecuador gang shooting
Six people were killed and eight wounded Monday in an apparent gang shootout in Guayaquil, a port city in Ecuador...
France pledges financial aid to Tunisia to curb migrant flows
France announced on Monday nearly 26 million euros (around $28 million) in aid to Tunisia to help curb the flow...
Rescue teams race to find submersible missing near Titanic wreck
The US Coast Guard said late Monday that its search for a missing submersible vessel near the Titanic wreck had...
‘Tough balancing act’: Chinese, German leaders hold talks
Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday, seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after...
Afghan cook pours his heart into ‘teapot’ lamb stew
In the kitchen of his Kabul restaurant, one of the last cooks to master the Afghan culinary art of "chainaki"...
Himalayan glaciers melting 65 percent faster than previous decade: study
Himalayan glaciers providing critical water to nearly two billion people are melting faster than ever before due to climate change,...
Guard fatally stabbed outside Brazil embassy in Tunisia
An attacker fatally stabbed a security guard on Monday outside Brazil's embassy in Tunis before being shot and arrested, the...
Ex-Pakistan PM Khan gets bail extended again in graft case
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's bail on corruption charges was extended again Monday, after he urged supporters to take...
Thai election commission ratifies vote results
Thailand's Election Commission on Monday confirmed the results of last month's vote, in which the pro-democracy opposition trounced the army-backed...
Modi to talk tech, trade on US visit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the United States on Tuesday to meet with President Joe Biden and address...
Lab-grown human embryo models spark calls for regulation
Scientists have used stem cells to create structures that resemble human embryos in the lab, in a first that has...
Tensions high in DR Congo six months ahead of vote
Key elections are looming in DR Congo, where political tensions combined with a security crisis and economic woes are creating...
Sierra Leoneans to vote as economic crisis bites
Sierra Leoneans will vote in tense elections on Saturday, with President Julius Maada Bio hoping to secure a second term...
Celebrities to urge climate action at Hollywood gathering
Stars including Jane Fonda and the Oscar-winning directors of "Everything Everywhere All At Once" will urge the entertainment industry to...
3 people shot in 2 separate incidents in Bronx
Two separate incidents outside a NYCHA complex in the Bronx have resulted in three individuals being shot. According to a...
Rower ends EU tour to expose waterway pollution
An intrepid traveller completed on Sunday a solo rowing expedition from Warsaw to Paris through the rivers and canals of...
Uruguay abandons plan to melt, recast Nazi bronze
Uruguayan authorities are reversing plans to melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken Nazi ship and recast it...
Iheanacho grabs late winner as Nigeria qualify for Cup of Nations
Victor Osimhen scored twice and Kelechi Iheanacho snatched an added-time winner as Nigeria edged Sierra Leone 3-2 in an Africa...
Trotsky grandson, legacy defender, dies in Mexico
Leon Trotsky's grandson, who lived in Mexico with the Russian revolutionary at the time of his 1940 assassination, has died...
Blinken may meet Xi during final day of talks in Beijing
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken opened talks with China's top envoy Monday and could potentially meet President Xi Jinping,...
Russia’s Navalny faces decades in prison in new trial
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is set to go on trial on Monday on charges of "extremism" that could keep...
Washington recruits dogs and cats in war on rodents
On a hot June night, revelers descend on Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood, a nightlife and dining hotspot in the US...
UN to finally adopt high seas treaty
The world's first international treaty to protect the high seas is due to be adopted Monday at the United Nations,...
UK lawmakers set to punish ex-PM Johnson for ‘Partygate lies’
British MPs vote Monday on a damning report that found ex-prime minister Boris Johnson deliberately lied to parliament about lockdown-breaking...
Asian markets fail to build on rally with eye on China policy
Markets saw a limp start Monday as traders turned more cautious after last week's rally, with eyes on China as...
Paris summit to push for global debt and climate reform
World leaders will gather in Paris this week with ambitions to reimagine global financing for a new era shaped by...
Chinese premier in Germany as Western mistrust mounts
China's Premier Li Qiang will meet German leaders during a trip to Berlin on Monday, at a time when Beijing's...
Gambian Musician gives hope to African asylum seekers in Cyprus
Every week, the beat of African drums ricocheting through the streets of Nicosia allows Ibrahim Kamara to momentarily forget his...
Paris Air Show back with climate, defense in focus
The Paris Air Show opens Monday after a four-year break with the aerospace industry bouncing back from the Covid-19 pandemic...
Fear, grief after 41 dead in ‘brutal’ Uganda school attack
Grieving families buried their dead in western Uganda on Sunday while others searched desperately for missing loved ones after militants...
Swiss get behind net-zero climate law
The Swiss on Sunday backed a new climate bill aimed at steering their country of melting glaciers towards carbon neutrality...
NATO says peacekeepers ‘unwavering’ as Kosovo tensions flare
NATO on Sunday underlined the "unwavering" commitment of its KFOR peacekeeping force to its duties in Kosovo as tensions flare...
Iraq unveils ancient stone tablet returned by Italy
Iraq unveiled on Sunday a 2,800-year-old stone tablet returned by Italy, as the war-ravaged country works to recover from abroad...
Armenian Resistance fighter joins France’s Pantheon greats
An Armenian poet and communist fighter in World War II will enter the Pantheon mausoleum and join an elite group...
Pakistan arrests 10 trafficking suspects after Greek boat tragedy
Pakistan authorities arrested 10 alleged human traffickers on Sunday, days after hundreds of migrants were feared drowned off the Greek...
Macron envoy heads to Lebanon in bid to end crisis
President Emmanuel Macron's new special envoy for Lebanon heads to Beirut in the coming week as France seeks a new...
Pakistani migrant’s final call home foretold Greek tragedy
Before 21-year-old Pakistani Muhammad Akash boarded a rickety fishing trawler in Libya on a journey he hoped would take him...
Tunisia protesters demand ‘political’ prisoners’ freedom
Hundreds of supporters of Tunisia's main opposition coalition on Sunday rallied to demand freedom for about 20 detained personalities and...
South Africa’s Ramaphosa tells Putin Ukraine ‘war must be settled’
South Africa's president, in Russia as part of a delegation pushing for peace between Kyiv and Moscow, told his Russian...
Sudan warring generals agree new truce after fighting intensifies
Sudan's warring generals agreed a new 72-hour ceasefire from Sunday, US and Saudi mediators said, after fighting intensified with deadly...
Goalkeeper howler sinks Morocco, Zambia run riot to qualify
A blunder by Morocco goalkeeper Munir el Kajoui led to a 2-1 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying defeat in South...
Children in war-scarred Yemen line up for water, not school
Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern Yemen to...
Japan’s emperor arrives in Indonesia for first state visit
Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Saturday for their first state visit since...
Israelis keep up protests against halted judicial reforms
Israelis protested in Tel Aviv and other cities for a 24th straight week against the government's judicial reform plans, days...
