ABUJA: Nigeria's President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that the state emergency agency in northern Kaduna state said killed at least 85 people at the weekend. The state's governor, a religious leader and witnesses told Reuters on
LONDON: Britain announced plans to slash the number of migrants arriving by legal routes on Tuesday, raising the minimum salary they must earn in a skilled job by a third, amid pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to tackle record net migration figures. High levels of
WASHINGTON: White House deputy national security adviser Jon Finer led a U.S. delegation to New Delhi on Monday where he noted the formation of an investigative panel by India to probe an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil. "Mr. Finer acknowledged India's
CHENNAI: At least four people died, factories closed and the runway of one of India's busiest airports lay submerged due to torrential rain, as two southern states were braced for the impact of a severe cyclone. Cyclone Michaung was expected to make landfall on the coast
LONDON: The Oxford University Press on Monday named "rizz", as the word of the year 2023, and some people are not even aware of what that means. "Rizz" is Generation Z's internet slang for romantic appeal, and was chosen among eight words reflecting the mood, ethos,
LONDON: A UK interfaith coalition comprising religious, political and civic leaders, as well as grieving relatives of some of those killed in the Israel-Hamas war, held a vigil Sunday in London. Hundreds gathered mid-afternoon in wet and frigid conditions opposite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Downing Street
WASHINGTON DC: In the twilight of history's conscience, Henry Kissinger, the orchestrator, bystander, and occasionally, the unapologetic architect of some of the United States' most egregious war crimes, took his final bow on Wednesday at the age of 100. Some call his era a hundred years
BEIJING: The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea. A Chinese naval force was mobilized to
PYONG YANG: North Korea warned Saturday it would “destroy” US spy satellites if Washington tries “any attack” on its space asset after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North’s defence ministry said it would consider such a
UNITED NATIONS: At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council ended the world body's political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United