The Sri Lankan Government has lifted a controversial ban on the burial of bodies of people whose deaths were caused by the COVID-19 disease, a
The US Government has urged Eritrea and Ethiopia to immediately withdraw their deployed forces from the war-torn Tigray region. In a statement issued over the weekend, the US State Department said that it is "gravely concerned" over reported atrocities and the overall deteriorating situation in
The Palestinian Health Ministry has recommended a two-week lockdown amid a surge in coronavirus infections across the West Bank. Palestinian Authority’s Health Minister Mai al-Kaila
India and China’s foreign ministers have discussed further de-escalating tensions at a disputed border after a pullback of troops in response to a deadly clash last year, New Delhi and Beijing said Friday. The nuclear-armed neighbours fought a border war in 1962 and last June
President Joe Biden held a long-delayed first phone call Thursday with Saudi King Salman ahead of an imminent US intelligence report expected to link the
Cameroonian soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, and killed a man in a raid last year in an English-speaking secessionist region,
Several hundred girls are missing after unidentified gunmen raided a school hostel in the northwest Nigerian state of Zamfara, a teacher and parent told the AFP news agency, in the second mass kidnapping in the troubled region in little more than a week. Sulaiman Tanau
Somali opposition presidential candidates postponed an anti-government rally after Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble and opposition leaders met Thursday in the capital Mogadishu. The demonstrations
Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have erroneously eliminated one of their top commanders known as Ba’ana Okocha, EON Intelligence reports. The indigene of
When police broke into Andrea Lynn Blankenship's home in Chickasha, Oklahoma, on February 12, they found her body stabbed and her chest mutilated. Earlier that day, the victim's neighbour admitted to breaking into Blankenship's home, cutting out her heart and taking it back to his