A van crashed into dozens of people in the centre of Barcelona on Thursday and several people were injured, police in the Spanish city said. Police described the incident on Twitter as a “massive crash”. Emergency services said people should not go to the area around the city’s Pla
Kenya’s Opposition leader Raila Odinga said Wednesday he would take his claims that presidential election was rigged to the Supreme Court, after previously refusing to do so, and vowed to protest peacefully. Odinga has charged that last Tuesday’s election was rigged in favor of incumbent
As 600 people remain missing, and thousands left homeless international concerns shifted towards the recently announced fact of at least a third of the casualties of the devastating Sierra Leone mudslide being children. Officials at Freetown’s central morgue said 105 of the more than 300 offic
At least 500 Rohingya Muslims had made the difficult journey into Bangladesh, some claiming they had been abused by soldiers in Myanmar.The influx followed a fresh military build-up in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, community leaders said Wednesday. The latest flood of refugees follows a months-long
Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obaid bin Daghar declared on Wednesday that his country’s army and popular resistance are close to score a real and final victory over coup militias which controls capital Sanaa, reported the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) . According to the Yemeni news agency, the victor
Daniel Craig is coming back as James Bond. He couldn’t quite give up the fast cars, martinis and camera pens. The British actor made on Tuesday night the confirmation, as widely expected, that he’ll play 007 in the franchise’s next film, due out in November 2019. The 49-year old ac
Jeddah- Saudi Arabia has stressed its firm position to reject any form of rapprochement with the Iranian regime which spreads terrorism in the region and the world and meddles in the affairs of other countries, an official source at the foreign ministry said. Riyadh has not requested any mediation i
Three women suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to a camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, killing 28 people and wounding 82, in an attack bearing the hallmark of Boko Haram militants, local sources said. The attack — the latest in a string of assaults in th
Entering the latest development concerning the South China Sea dispute, China assured the Philippines it will not occupy new features or territory in the South China Sea, under a new “status quo” brokered by Manila as both sides try to strengthen their relations, the Philippine defense m
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday urged China to push for more ambitious targets for its coal and steel industries to cut excess production capacity as Beijing bids to steps up economic reforms. According to Reuters, a total of 140 million tonnes of steel production capacity and 800 m
Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Tuesday sought a review of a Supreme Court decision that disqualified him from office over undeclared assets, an official from his ruling party said on Tuesday. “It is our right to seek a review,” Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz),PML-N, offic
Algeria’s presidency has named Ahmed Ouyahia as prime minister, replacing Abdelmadjid Tebboune after just three months in the job, the president’s office said on Tuesday. The statement from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s office gave no reason for the change. Ouyahia, 65, has serv
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday ordered the military to conduct exercises after US President Donald Trump’s threat of a possible armed intervention in the crisis-stricken country. Maduro told a crowd of supporters in Caracas that he had organized a round of military drills for Au
Iraqi and coalition warplanes carried out airstrikes Tuesday against ISIS targets in Tal Afar in preparation for a ground offensive to retake the northern town near the Syrian border, Iraq’s military said. “Preparations are under way pending instructions from the commander in chief (Prim
Gunmen attacked two United Nations bases in Mali on Monday, killing a peacekeeper, a contractor and seven Malians, the UN said. The Togolese peacekeeper and a Malian soldier were killed in an attack in the early morning in Douentza, in the central region of Mopti, according to a statement from the U
North Korea’s leader appeared on Tuesday to back away from his threat to fire missiles towards Guam while he waits to see what the US does next as South Korea’s president said Seoul would seek to prevent war by all means and China reiterated calls for restraint on the Korean peninsula. I
US President Donald Trump, under pressure to explicitly condemn a weekend Virginia rally by white supremacists that ended in bloodshed, on Monday denounced neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan as criminals and thugs. “Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs,
