Month: November 2022

An Afghan teenager Fatemeh Amiri, 17, who was severely injured in a suicide attack on her school in September has passed her university entrance exams. Amiri lost an eye and sustained severe injuries to her jaw and ear when the Kabul-based Kaaj education center was attacked on September 30. The blast at the female section […]

Iran has acknowledged for the first time that it supplied Moscow with drones but said they were sent before the war in Ukraine, where Russia has used drones to target power stations and civilian infrastructure. The Iranian foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said a “small number” of drones were supplied to Russia a few months before […]

Hundreds of protesters have marched through Ghana’s capital, Accra, calling for the resignation of President Nana Akufo-Addo amid an economic crisis that has seen fuel and food costs spiral to record levels. Filing past police in riot gear, the more than 1,000-strong crowd waved placards on Saturday and chanted “Akufo-Addo must go”. The red-clad crowd […]

Fierce reactions have trailed the approval of a $464 million loan approved by the Ugandan parliament. According to the parliament, the approval of the presidency’s request was aimed at financing infrastructures across the country. While disclosing this in a tweet on Friday November 4, 2020, the parliament noted, “The $464 million loan from Standard Chartered […]

Saudi Arabia is building a round-the-clock primary healthcare center in Yemen. The building reportedly costs $1.5 million, according to the official Saudi Press Agency’s (SPA) report on Friday. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) inaugurated the project in Hadramawt, Yemen. The center is built on a 9,169 square meters land, and includes […]

Pakistan has been assured of $13 billion in funding from China and Saudi Arabia. This is following the nation’s battle with the aftermath of catastrophic floods. Following the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s recent visit to Beijing, China has agreed to roll over $4 billion worth of sovereign loans to the South Asian nation, refinance […]

Former NYPD officer Michael Valva has been found guilty of murder in the death of his 8-year-old son. A jury has found a former NYPD cop Michael Valva guilty in the murder of his autistic 8-year-old son. Michael Valva, 40, allegedly forced his 8-year-old son, Thomas, to sleep in an unheated garage in below-freezing temperatures […]

Kenya Airways flights has been disrupted Saturday as a strike by its pilots demanding better working conditions grounded over a dozen planes, affecting thousands of passengers, the country’s transport minister said. The airline, part-owned by the government and Air France-KLM, is one of the biggest in Africa, connecting multiple countries to Europe and Asia, but […]

The City Council has passed a package of bills aimed at improving “the historic lack of racial and gender diversity” in the FDNY, according to a council press release. The five bills address recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups among firefighters and seeks to build transparency around the FDNY’s efforts to tackle the issue. The […]

Teva Pharmaceuticals has reached a settlement Thursday with the New York attorney general to pay up to $523 million for the part it played in perpetuating the opioid epidemic. Set to be paid over a 13-year timeline, the agreement also bans the Tel Aviv, Israel-based Teva and its U.S. affiliates from selling high-dose opioids, limits […]

A state judge has granted a request by the New York attorney general for an order appointing a monitor to oversee the finances of the Trump Organization, and prohibited any proposed transfers of substantial assets without prior notice to the court, the AG and the monitor, while a state lawsuit against the company moves forward. […]

Iran poses a very real cybersecurity threat to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries and could target key industries such as telecoms, oil, and gas, experts explained. Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco was hacked in 2012 in one of the world’s biggest cyberattacks to date. A group called Cutting Sword of Justice claimed responsibility for […]

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman announced the launch of Ceer, the first Saudi electric vehicle brand that will contribute to Saudi Arabia’s automotive manufacturing sector. “The launch comes in line with the strategy of the Public Investment Fund (PIF) to focus on unlocking the capabilities of promising sectors locally that can help drive […]

White House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, has returned home after being hospitalized due to serious injuries allegedly inflicted by a home intruder. Paul Pelosi, 82, underwent surgery for a fractured skull and other injuries suffered last week. He had been kept in an intensive care unit at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital for […]

On Thursday, the smog air pollution in New Delhi hit “hazardous” levels. Smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity. According to monitoring firm IQAir, levels of the most dangerous particles, PM2.5, so tiny they can enter the bloodstream were 588 […]

President Joe Biden of the United States of America spoke on Wednesday night, condemning the rising violence which is fueled by political differences and urging Americans to vote in the upcoming election as a way to save the country’s democracy. He warned that democracy itself is in peril. President Biden called on Americans to use […]

President Joko Widodo of the Republic of Indonesia has won the 2022 Imam Hasan bin Ali International Peace Prize presented by the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace. The award, under the patronage of Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, was presented on Wednesday. Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, President […]

Former Prime Minister Imran Khan has sustained a bullet injury in his leg after a gunman opened fire where he was leading a rally in Wazirabad on Thursday, according to Al-Jazeera. Azhar Mashwani, an official with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, said that Khan was shot in the leg but was not in danger. Mashwani, however, […]

U.S. President Joe Biden has revealed on Wednesday his intent to exclude Burkina Faso from a U.S.-Africa trade pact, citing a lack of progress toward protecting the rule of law and political pluralism. Biden said that Washington will terminate Burkina Faso’s designation as a beneficiary sub-Saharan African country under the African Growth and Opportunity Act […]

Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James in Florida on Wednesday, accusing her of abusing her position to wage a “war of intimidation and harassment” against him. The 41-page lawsuit filed in Palm Beach County, where Trump lives, accuses James of breaking the law in Florida and […]