BSS :Benin opposition leader and former justice minister Reckya Madougou was sentenced on Saturday to 20 years in prison on charge of terrorism before a special court in the capital Porto-Novo.After more than 20...
BSS :A Palestinian was killed by Israeli troops during a clash in the northern occupied West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian health ministry said. The man sustained a gunshot wound in the head during...
BSS :Shrouded by acrid smoke, a young Afghan crouches sorting waste he has pulled from the trash bins of Istanbul, anxious that Turkey will soon strip him of even this subsistence.“I start at eight...
BSS :International donors agreed to release $280 million in aid to Afghanistan, the World Bank said Friday, after repeated warnings that more than half the population face “acute” food shortages this winter.The fund from...
BSS :A suspect in the attack on a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 people dead has been detained in Kyrgyzstan, security services in the Central Asian country said on Friday.Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for...
BSS :A storm tore through a massive Amazon warehouse in the US state of Illinois on Friday, officials said, with local media reporting around 100 workers trapped inside. Officials were working through the early...
BSS :The UK on Friday saw the highest number of Covid infections since January, a senior minister said Friday, as the government seeks to slow the spread of the new variant.Communities Secretary Michael Gove...
BSS :NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday rejected Russia’s call for the West to withdraw its invitation to Ukraine to join the alliance.“NATO’s relationship with Ukraine is going to be decided by the...
BSS :A Brazilian court convicted four people for their role in a nightclub fire that left 242 people dead nearly a decade ago, handing down sentences of up to 22 years.The 2013 fire at...
BSS :The street in front of the embassy of Saudi Arabia will be called “Jamal Khashoggi Way,” after the Washington city council voted to honor the Saudi journalist murdered by government agents.The council voted...
South Africa will next month start giving of Pfizer booster shots against corona virus, a health official said Friday, a day after the country reported a near-record high in daily cases of the disease.“The...
BSS :A Benin opposition leader went on trial on terrorism charges on Friday, nine months after she was arrested just before President Patrice Talon’s re-election in April.Reckya Madougou, one of the opposition leaders banned...
