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Five killed in South Africa’s Cape Town amid taxi strike
Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by mini-bus taxi drivers that began ...Amazon rainforest nations gather to forge shared policy in Brazil
Leaders of the eight Amazon rainforest countries are gathering on Tuesday for the first time in 14 years, with plans to reach ...Thousands of protesters march in Haiti against gang violence
Tensions escalated in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Monday, as thousands of protesters took to the streets to speak out against ...Ukraine says U.S and German air defence systems ‘highly effective’
Ukraine is seeing “significant results” from U.S. and German air defence systems, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday, despite waves of Russian ...Niger closes airspace as it refuses to reinstate president
Niger closed its airspace on Sunday until further notice, citing the threat of military intervention from the West African regional bloc after ...France backs West African efforts to make Niger coup fail
France will support efforts by the West African regional grouping ECOWAS to make the military coup in Niger fail, the French foreign ...Lebanon seeks to reassure Gulf, Germany, UK after travel warnings amid violence
Lebanon’s caretaker premier Najib Mikati said on Saturday there was no cause for “concern or panic” about his country’s security situation, after ...Ethiopia declares six-month state of emergency in Amhara after clashes
Ethiopia’s government declared a six-month state of emergency on Friday in the country’s second-largest region, Amhara, following days of clashes between the ...Pakistan’s Imran Khan jailed for three years and banned from politics for five years over ...
Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore on Saturday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison ...Ukraine attacks Russian navy base near Novorossiysk
Ukrainian sea drones attacked a Russian navy base near the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major hub for Russian exports, early ...