Togo has arrested and extradited Burkina Faso’s former leader to his home country, after authorities in Ouagadougou accused him of plotting to kill his successor. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba – who came to power in a coup in 2022 before himself being overthrown by Ibrahim Traoré eight months later – is accused by the current regime…
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced Thursday that its fighters targeted two Israeli military units in southern Gaza, killing and wounding soldiers, Anadolu reports. The group said fighters struck an Israeli force of seven soldiers with a powerful explosive device near the Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in the al-Tannour neighborhood in eastern…
A tribunal in Colombia has sentenced a former paramilitary leader, Salvatore Mancuso, to 40 years in prison for murders and forced disappearances committed at the height of the country’s armed conflict. Mancuso was a commander in the United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), a right-wing paramilitary group originally created to defend landowners from attacks by…
Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, announced Thursday that its fighters targeted two Israeli military units in southern Gaza, killing and wounding soldiers, Anadolu reports. The group said fighters struck an Israeli force of seven soldiers with a powerful explosive device near the Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz Mosque in the al-Tannour neighborhood in eastern…
Thomas Mackintoshand Guy Hedgecoe Catalonian fire service Fire crews inspect the wreckage of the train in Catalonia A train driver has been killed and at least 14 people injured after a commuter train derailed and crashed near Barcelona, local media report. According to local officials, the Rodalies train collided with a retaining wall which fell…
Just as head chopping was central to Daesh as an expression of its military prowess and power, killing babies and children is central to Israel as an expression of its dominance in occupied Palestine. No one loves head chopping more than Daesh, and no one loves killing children more than Israel. That’s the message which…
Usha Vance, the wife of Vice-President JD Vance, has announced she is pregnant with her fourth child. In a post on X, the second lady said she is looking forward to welcoming a boy in late July. “Usha and the baby are doing well,” a statement posted on Tuesday to the second lady’s social media…
A group of diplomats, including the Iranian delegation, interrupted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech on Friday before the United Nations (UN) as they walked out of the General Assembly headquarters in New York. An Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondent reported that diplomats left the hall upon Netanyahu’s arrival. His speech began amid chants inside the…
Lyse DoucetChief international correspondent Reuters Tuesday marks one year to the day Trump was inaugurated as president for his second term On day one, he put the world on notice. “Nothing will stand in our way,” President Donald Trump declared, to thunderous applause, as he ended his inauguration speech in a cold Washington winter on…
Palestine warned, on Tuesday, that Gaza is enduring relentless bombardment, coupled with a deprivation of basic necessities, accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war against civilians, Anadolu Agency reports. “There is no shortage of bombs falling on Gaza, but there is an imposed shortage of everything else; starvation as a weapon of…