2024

Watch live and follow text updates from both Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals, starting with Nigeria v South Africa.

French prosecutors said Wednesday they had opened an inquiry after actor Judith Godreche filed a complaint against film director Benoit Jacquot, accusing him of raping… Read More »‘Mistress at 14’: French actor Godreche files rape complaint against famed director Jacquot

Salah Abdeslam, sentenced to life in jail over the 2015 Paris jihadist attacks, was removed from his Belgian prison cell on Wednesday and transferred back… Read More »Paris 2015 attacker Salah Abdeslam transferred from Belgium to France

The vote to delay Senegal’s presidential election until December “cannot be considered legitimate”, the US state department said, after the move plunged the normally stable… Read More »Senegal vote delay not ‘legitimate’, says US

The internet outage comes on top of a 10-month civil war which has forced nine million from their homes.

Two explosions near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, officials said, raising concerns over… Read More »Deadly twin blasts target Pakistani candidate offices on election eve

Exactly four months after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, more than 100 Israelis remain in captivity, with very little known about their fate. The… Read More »Eyal Kalderon, cousin of Gaza hostage: ‘We need to strive to get a deal’

Russia launched missile strikes on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during Wednesday morning’s rush hour, killing three people, injuring at least a dozen more and… Read More »Russian air strikes target Kyiv, other Ukrainian cities, killing at least three

Pakistan is gearing up for parliamentary elections on February 8. With 60 percent of the population under the age of 30, the youth vote will be decisive.… Read More »Ahead of Pakistan’s elections, parties hope to woo young voters

Rome’s most majestic forum has recovered some of its former glory with a partial reconstruction of the imposing columns of Trajan’s basilica – using funds from… Read More »Rome partially restores Trajan’s Basilica with funds from Russian oligarch