20 January 2022 Saudi authorities have warned that anyone spreading “baseless” rumours on social media could face up to five years in prison and a huge fine. It comes after a cancelled concert in Riyadh led to reports online that young women ...
20 January 2022 Senegal will vote for mayors and local representatives on Sunday in the first election since last year’s riots, in a vote seen as a key test for President Macky Sall. The poll is also the first in the West ...
20 January 2022 Dozens of Sudanese judges and prosecutors have condemned the killing of more than 70 protesters since October’s coup and have called for a criminal investigation. Frequent protests have been met with live gunfire and tear gas and thousands are ...
20 January 2022 At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party. The World Economic Forum ...
20 January 2022 At least two people have been killed and dozens more wounded after an explosion in a busy shopping district in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police say. The explosion took place in the Lohari Gate area, a densely ...
20 January 2022 Former Pope Benedict XVI failed to act over four child abuse cases when he was archbishop of Munich, a German probe into the Catholic Church has alleged. Pope Benedict, then called Josef Ratzinger, held the position from 1977 to ...
19 January 2022 At least 10 people have died in flash floods triggered by torrential rain that battered Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo overnight, an interior ministry official said on Tuesday. The victims were killed after “the floods caused landslides and houses collapsed,” Sonia ...
19 January 2022 Despite completing their final year of high school amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the class of 2021’s National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate was 98.39%. Nearly all of them (89.2%) achieved entry to degree study at a tertiary level. According to ...
19 January 2022 The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning to world leaders that the coronavirus pandemic “is nowhere near over”. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned against the assumption that the newly dominant Omicron variant is significantly ...
19 January 2022 The Israeli municipality of West Jerusalem, backed by a large police force, demolished early this morning the Salhia family house in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood after breaking into the house and forcefully removing and arresting the family members ...
