World

  At least 25 people, including a police officer, have died in a fatal clash with drug traffickers in a shanty town in northern Rio de Janeiro. The suspected traffickers attempted to escape across rooftops as...

  The US has said it would support the temporary waiver of intellectual property provisions to allow developing nations produce Covid-19 vaccines created by pharmaceutical companies, citing a pressing need to stem the pandemic. Overriding objections...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Dominic Ongwen, a former child soldier who became one of the top commanders of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), to 25 years in prison for war crimes and...

  The Nigerian Senate has assured that the 230 Nigerian Medical students stranded in the Caribbean Island of St. Vincent after volcanic eruptions, will be safely evacuated back to the country. It would be recalled that...

  Ethiopia’s Lower House of Parliament has approved the designation of two groups- the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLF-Shene) as terrorist organisations. This comes after the majority vote on a...

President Joe Biden wants 70 percent of adults to have received at least one shot by Independence Day on July 4 and overcoming vaccine hesitancy is key to reaching the goal. “We know there are millions...