2023

President George Weah is facing a strong challenge from the opposition in his bid for a second term.

Liberians vote Tuesday on whether to give football legend George Weah a second term as president, with peace among voters’ main concerns in a nation… Read More »Football legend Weah eyes second presidential term as Liberia votes

Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in northern Myanmar, a spokesman for an ethnic… Read More »Dozens killed in Myanmar military camp for displaced people

Israel laid “total siege” to the Gaza Strip on Monday, vowing to cut off food, water and electricity supplies to the impoverished enclave as it… Read More »‘No place is safe’ in Gaza as Israel lays siege to Hamas-held enclave

Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas… Read More »🔴 Live: Leaders of US, UK, Germany, Italy and France express support for Israel

Consumers in Britain held off on much of their non-essential spending last month as rising prices for motor fuel compounded the broader hit from the… Read More »UK consumers hunker down as fuel prices rise

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “mighty vengeance” against Hamas following its dramatic surprise incursion into the country on Saturday, October 7, all the while… Read More »Hostages held in Gaza complicate Israeli response to incursion

Women and children make up two-thirds of the victims of the recent earthquakes in Afghanistan who were hospitalised with severe injuries, the head of the… Read More »Majority of Afghanistan earthquake victims are women and children, WHO says

The devastating failure of the Israeli intelligence services to predict the deadly Hamas incursion stemmed from a total misunderstanding of the militant group, experts have… Read More »Israeli intelligence ‘totally misunderstood Hamas’, experts say

The country will treat humanely any asylum seekers sent under the legally-stalled deal, the UK says.