Reuters SPECIAL forces soldiers appeared on Sunday to have ousted Guinea’s long-serving president, telling the nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders. As the United Nations condemned any takeover by force and the West African region’s economic bloc threatened reprisals, the elite army unit’s head, Mamady Doumbouya,
BBC A STATE of emergency has been declared in New York City after it was hit by record rainfall and flash flooding as a result of Tropical Storm Ida. Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city was “enduring an historic weather event” with “brutal flooding” and “dangerous conditions” on the roads. Footage on social media
BBC The US army made sure to disable their aircraft and armed vehicles left behind at Kabul Airport before they flew out on Monday night, officials say. Mission commander General Kenneth McKenzie said troops “demilitarized” 73 aircraft, 70 armoured tactical vehicles and 27 Humvees so they wouldn’t be used by the Taliban. “Those aircraft will
BBC News THE US military says it believes it has killed a planner for a branch of the Islamic State (IS) group in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. The suspected member of the IS-K group was targeted in Nangahar Province. IS-K said it had carried out an attack outside Kabul airport on Thursday that
The Indian Express THE Taliban are likely to unveil a new governing framework for Afghanistan within the next few weeks, a spokesperson said on Saturday. “Legal, religious and foreign policy experts in the Taliban aim to present the new governing framework in the next few weeks,” the official told Reuters. Since returning to power in
Tolo News Scenes of desperation were witnessed at Kabul airport on Monday as hundreds of people, who are desperate to leave Afghanistan, clung on to a moving US Air Force C-17 aircraft on the tarmac. A video later showed something falling off from the plane after it took to the skies. Videos uploaded on social
BBC THE UK’s Ambassador in Afghanistan, Sir Laurie Bristow, has remained in Kabul to help the evacuation of remaining Britons and has also been personally processing visa applications at the airport. He has been praised for putting his own evacuation plans on hold, with people including the leader of the UK’s Labour party, Sir Keir
The Guardian TALIBAN promises of “safe passage” to the Kabul airport for Afghans trying to flee the country have been undermined by reports of women and children being beaten and whipped as they try to pass through checkpoints set up by the militants. With the Taliban in control of Afghanistan’s land border, Kabul airport is
BBC OFFICIALS in Haiti have confirmed at least 1,297 people are dead after a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit the Caribbean nation on Saturday. Rescuers are picking through rubble in a desperate search for any survivors. Homes, churches and schools were among buildings flattened in the quake. Some hospitals were left overwhelmed and in need of
The Guardian Recently installed solar lights mark burial sites on Cowessess First Nation, where a search had found 751 unmarked graves from the former Marieval Indian residential school near Grayson, Saskatchewan. Photograph: Shannon Vanraes/Reuters In her job as a forensic pathologist, Kona Williams investigates hundreds of deaths a year. But when she heard that unmarked graves
BBC Rights activists, journalists and lawyers around the world have been targeted with phone malware sold to authoritarian governments by an Israeli surveillance firm, media reports say. They are on a list of up to 50,000 phone numbers of people believed to be of interest to clients of the company, NSO, leaked to major news
BBC AT LEAST 80 people have died and hundreds more are unaccounted for in Germany after some of the worst flooding in decades. Record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, devastating the region. Belgium has also reported at least 11 dead after the extreme weather, which political leaders have blamed on
Reuters HAITIAN police say they have arrested one of the suspected masterminds in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a Haitian man whom authorities accused of hiring mercenaries to oust and replace Moise. Moise was shot dead early on Wednesday at his Port-au-Prince home by what Haitian authorities describe as a unit of assassins formed
BBC THOUSANDS of Cubans have joined the biggest protests for decades against the island’s Communist government. They marched in cities including the capital Havana, shouting, “Down with the dictatorship!”. Images on social media showed what appear to be security forces detaining and beating some of the protesters. Cubans have been angered by the collapse of
BBC HAITI’S President Jovenel Moïse has been killed in an attack on his home in the nation’s capital, according to the country’s interim prime minister. Claude Joseph said the president’s home in Port-au-Prince was stormed by unidentified armed men at 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT). First Lady Martine Moïse was also injured in the attack.
By Thandiwe Garusa THE Elders, a group of eminent internationally acclaimed politicians, have urged world leaders to rise to the challenge and demonstrate a direct and personal responsibility in leading efforts to prevent future global pandemics such as Covid-19 and the threats they pose. The Elders said this can be achieved by the leaders publicly
BBC A MILITARY transport aircraft carrying 92 people, mostly troops, has crashed in the southern Philippines. Seventeen bodies were found at the crash site on Jolo island, but 40 people survived and were taken to a nearby military hospital. The plane, a C130 Hercules, was trying to land at Jolo airport when it overshot the
BBC The US white ex-police officer convicted of murdering African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 has been sentenced to 22 years and six months in jail. The judge said Derek Chauvin’s sentence was based “on your abuse of a position of trust and authority, and also the particular cruelty shown” to Mr
Africa News Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will travel to London for a medical check-up, his office said Thursday, three months after a previous trip caused an outcry in the country. Buhari, 78, has flown to London several times for health reasons since he was first elected in 2015, though the nature of his ailment has
BBC Benjamin Netanyahu has lost his 12-year hold on power in Israel after the country’s parliament voted in a new coalition government. A new “government of change” will be led by right-wing nationalist Naftali Bennett of the Yamina party. He will lead an unprecedented coalition of parties which was approved with a razor-thin majority of
