Iran has charged a French tourist with spying and “spreading propaganda against the system,” his lawyer said; the latest in a series of cases against
Carmaker Volkswagen (VW), according to a News Agency report, plans to cut up to 4,000 jobs at its plants in Germany by offering early or partial retirement to older employees in a move that could cost several hundred million euros, the Reuters news agency reported
The CDU, the party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, suffered record defeats in two regional votes on Sunday amid anger over a muddled coronavirus response,
A court in Bangladesh has ordered a probe into claims by a formerly jailed cartoonist that he was tortured before police detained him under the country’s harsh internet laws, his lawyer said. Ahmed Kabir Kishore, 45, was arrested in May 2020 under the controversial laws
Pakistani authorities have sealed sections of the capital Islamabad, officials say, as the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic caused a spike in cases and
Thione Seck, one of Senegal’s biggest music stars over the last 40 years, died at the age of 66 in the capital Dakar on Sunday,
Reactions have continued to trail the victories of Nigerian music stars, Burna Boy and Wizkid, at the 2021 edition of the Recording Academy Awards, otherwise called Grammys. This time, the duo's Nigerian contemporary, Davido, reacted to the victories through his Twitter handle. The 28-year-old singer
Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools, the latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.
Five persons have Ben killed and more than fifty others injured with varying degrees of the injuries when powerful explosives in a car went off
Gunmen suspected of bandits have released three videos showing 39 students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state, begging the state government to facilitate their release. The criminals are reportedly demanding N500 million to release