2023

Clemence Mtenga should have graduated from university this week – instead his body is being flown home.

South Africa’s ex-Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted early release from prison on Friday, a decade after he fatally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in… Read More »South Africa’s Pistorius granted parole over girlfriend’s murder

Foreign troops are helping Mozambique tackle a six-year Islamist insurgency in the north.

The former Paralympian has been serving a 13-year sentence for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Forty years ago, on October 15, 1983, a handful of young people set off from the southern French city of Marseille on a long march… Read More »‘We’re not asking for the moon’: Forty years on, what legacy for French anti-racism march?

A night of torched vehicles and shop looting sparked in Dublin after a knife attack outside a school was of an “extraordinary” level of violence… Read More »Police arrest 34 in Dublin as PM says rioters brought ‘shame’ on Ireland

As Hamas prepares to release a first group of hostages held for more than six weeks in Gaza, it’s worth remembering that Israelis have been… Read More »Veteran Israeli negotiator: ‘There is a chance we can get out most of the hostages’

China called for vigilance on Friday as a surge of respiratory illness hit schools and hospitals and the World Health Organization, which has asked the… Read More »WHO says no new pathogens found as China sees spike in respiratory illnesses

Rights groups are preparing for the COP28 climate talks in the United Arab Emirates with trepidation, fearing surveillance and detention under the oil-rich monarchy’s strict… Read More »Climate activists fear surveillance, detention at COP28 talks in UAE

The group was returning home after meeting the First Lady in Nairobi when they were swept away.