Deutsche Welle : A United Nations backed human rights mission in Sudan on Friday called for an “independent and impartial”...
BBC : An armed man has been shot dead by German police near the Nazi documentation centre and Israeli consulate...
BBC : French President Emmanuel Macron has named Michel Barnier as prime minister almost twomonths after France’s snap elections ended...
AFP : A shooting rampage Wednesday in the US state of Georgia that left two students and two teachers dead...
Al Jazeera : Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has concluded his first visit to Turkey since he took office in 2014, in what constitutes the next step in mending the ties between the two countries after his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan made his first visit to Egypt since 2014 in February.The two presidents also headed the first meeting of the Egyptian-Turkish Strategic Cooperation Council on Wednesday. Among them was an undertaking to “promote economic and trade relations … to increase...
Al Jazeera : Incompetence, dishonesty and greed were behind the 72 “avoidable” deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, a report into the 2017 tragedy has concluded. Delivered on Wednesday following a six-year inquiry, the final report stated that decades of failure by United Kingdom governments, indifference to safety by authorities, dishonest and incompetent manufacturers and installers of building materials, and a lack of strategy by firefighters were the main contributors to the shocking death toll. Those in the...
AFP : At least 81 people died and several were missing after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe State, local officials told AFP on Tuesday. “Around 150 suspected Boko Haram terrorists armed with rifles and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) attacked Mafa ward on more than 50 motorcycles around 16:00 hours on Sunday,” said Abdulkarim Dungus, a Yobe state police spokesman. “They killed many people and burnt many shops and houses. We are yet to ascertain the...
AFP : At least 20 people are missing, feared dead, following a boat mishap on the Mekong river in the “Golden Triangle” area between Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, officials told AFP on Wednesday. The incident happened late Monday during “strong currents” on the river that divides the three countries, Manop Senakul, the police chief in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province, told AFP. “At least 20 people are missing,” he said, adding that a further 16 Myanmar nationals had been rescued.Myanmar...
AFP : Rising temperatures should trigger a global “red alert,” the United Nations’ weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again smashed records in August. The world saw record average temperatures in August for the second year running, preliminary data from the EU’s climate monitor seen by AFP showed. Scientists warn that these unprecedented temperatures are in large part driven by man-made climate change, which is causing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. And Australia,...
BBC : A mother and her three daughters were among seven people killed in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, during...
CNN : More than 120 people have been killed in an attempted mass breakout from the largest prison in the...