2024

Togo’s opposition on Thursday called for a three-day mass protest to demonstrate against the government’s decision to delay this month’s legislative elections.

The soccer star was waiting to be served at a petrol station when two gunmen opened fire on him, police say.

The unnamed woman died of her injuries after an elephant flipped her car over several times.

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said on Thursday his communist-run government has secured supply of key subsidised food rations as he moved to defuse tensions just… Read More »Cuba secures food rations in bid to ease tension after protests

A prominent Iraqi jihadist leader in Syria’s rebel-held northwest was killed in a suicide bombing, the group he was in and a war monitor said… Read More »Senior Iraqi jihadist leader killed in Syria suicide bombing

A French court on Wednesday sentenced Audrey Mondjehi to a 30-year jail term for helping an Islamist militant who killed five people in a 2018… Read More »French court sentences Christmas market attack plotter to three years in jail

Laws and treaties prohibiting gender discrimination have failed to alter the stark fact that, globally, women are still paid significantly less than men for the… Read More »Op-ed: Improving women’s access to decent jobs

French MPs on Thursday approved the first reading of a bill aimed at restricting the manufacture and sale of non-essential products containing PFAS or “forever… Read More »‘Forever chemicals’: French MPs approve PFAS product ban

Nearly six months into a deadly war that has ravaged Gaza, the Palestine Olympic Committee is battling against formidable odds to ensure its athletes take… Read More »Palestinian athletes will ‘represent a country, a history, a cause’ at the Paris Olympics

The goalkeeper of a Spanish third division club is banned for two games after confronting a rival fan he says racially abused him.