AFP : The death toll from a car bombing at a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu that was packed with football fans watching the the Euro 2024 final has risen to nine, security sources said Monday. Witnesses described scenes of panic and chaos after the powerful blast late Sunday, with people scrambling for safety and the main entrance to the cafe destroyed by the blaze. Mohamed Yusuf, an official from the national security agency, said nine civilians were killed and...
Aljazeera : Israeli forces have attacked five separate schools in Gaza in just eight days, killing dozens of people sheltering in them, according to Palestinian officials, medics and rescuers. The latest attack on Sunday struck the United Nations-run Abu Oreiban school in the Nuseirat refugee camp, killing at least 17 people and injuring about 80. Most of the victims were women and children, said Palestinian Civil Defence. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, where some...
Reuters : France’s left-wing parties still plan to form a joint government after they emerged as the strongest bloc in parliament in a snap election, but any pact is unlikely to come this week, the head of the Socialist Party (PS) said on Monday. “Nothing will happen before July 18.” Olivier Faure told France 2 television, referring to the date the newly elected National Assembly is due to convene for the first time. The New Popular Front (NPF), a hastily...
Aljazeera : The prime suspect arrested over the discovery of mutilated female bodies in a Nairobi rubbish dump had confessed to killing 42 women, according to the Kenyan police. “The suspect confessed to have lured, killed and disposed of 42 female bodies at the dumping site,” the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, told reporters on Monday. “We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life,” Amin said...
Reuters : Airbus on Monday revised up its 20-year demand forecast for jetliners as many airlines modernise long-haul fleets and Asia’s surging economies lock into air travel. The world’s largest planemaker predicted in an annual report on jet industry trends that the global fleet would more than double over the next two decades to 48,230 planes. Airbus predicted industry-wide deliveries of 42,430 new aeroplanes over the next 20 years, including 41,490 passenger jets, with both figures up 4% since the...
News Desk : Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame made history once by receiving 99% of the vote in the African countries previous election in 2017, says BBC. There is not much room for growth for Rwanda’s next election, to be held on Monday (15 July). However the scale of his victories in 2017, along with his 95% in 2003 and 93% in 2010, raised some questions about how truly democratic the elections were. Criticism that the former refugee and rebel leader...
Al Jazeera : Venice has wrapped up its pilot programme of charging a 5-euro ($5.46) entrance fee for day trippers...
Al Jazeera : Palestinians in the occupied West Bank (WB) are observing a general strike in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, denouncing Saturday’s attack on a designated safe zone of al-Mawasi that killed at least 90 people and injured some 300 others. Most cities in the West Bank joined the general strike on Sunday against Israel’s air attack on the refugee camp west of Khan Younis. Palestinians also protested on Saturday night in the cities of Jenin, Hebron and...
Reuters : Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his third wife were acquitted on charges of marrying unlawfully by a...
News Desk : The Indian National Congress(INC, the Congress) said that the results once again indicated that the ruling party...
AFP : An alliance of Myanmar ethnic minority armed groups said Sunday it had agreed a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan state following weeks of clashes in which it seized territory from the military along a key highway to China. “We… showed cooperation with China by agreeing a four-day ceasefire in Northern Shan” from 14-18 July, Major-General Tar Bhone Kyaw of the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), one of the members of the alliance, told AFP. Northern...
AFP : China and Russia conducted a joint naval patrol in the northern and western Pacific, Beijing’s defence ministry said...