BSS :More than 100 people are dead or missing in the sinking of a boat on the Congo river, provincial authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo said on Saturday.Fifty-one bodies had been recovered...
BSS :Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution, Abolhassan Banisadr, died in a Paris hospital on Saturday aged 88, the official news agency IRNA said.“After a long illness, Abolhassan Banisadr died on Saturday...
BSS : Fiji will ease Covid-19 restrictions and announce its reopening for international travel after the country hit a vaccination milestone on Saturday.Changes to the country’s virus restrictions would be announced on Sundayafternoon after...
BSS :An Israeli missile strike on an airbase in central Syria has killed two Damascus-allied foreign fighters and wounded several Syrian service personnel, a Britain-based war monitor said on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for...
Reuters :Seven people, including six foreign nationals, died when some gas cylinders exploded at the SAS gold mine in Zimbabwe’s Mazowe district on Thursday, police said.The six foreigners were Chinese, Mazowe lawmaker Fortune Chasi...
BSS :All four people aboard were killed Friday after a small plane crashed and burst into flames near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. media reported citing authorities. Multiple media outlets cited the Federal Aviation Administration as...
Reuters :Chile’s public prosecutor said on Friday it would open an investigation into the sale of a mining project involving the family of President Sebastian Pinera after new details emerged about the transaction in...
Reuters :Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed on Saturday to realise peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan, though did not directly mention the use of force after a week of tensions with the Chinese-claimed island that sparked...
Reuters :Brazil became the second country in the world to pass 600,000 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, a dark milestone for a government that has been sharply criticised for mismanaging the outbreak.President Jair Bolsonaro has...
BSS :Seventeen people in Russia have died after drinking surrogate alcohol containing highly toxic methanol, officials said Friday, with investigators launching criminal probes.The deaths are the latest in Russia from the consumption of a...
Nigerian security forces have rescued nearly 200 kidnap victims during raids on camps of criminal gangs in dense forests in the country’s northwest, police said.Heavily armed criminal gangs known locally as bandits have plagued...
BSS :Security forces, displaced people and prisoners cast ballots in an Iraqi legislative election Friday, two days before the rest of the country in a poll overshadowed by expectations of a low turnout.In Baghdad,...
