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William Ruto has faced a backlash over plans to introduce a new health levy on employers and employees.

Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics said on Thursday their headquarters had been raided Wednesday by the country’s national financial prosecutor and a judicial source… Read More »French financial prosecutors raid Paris 2024 Olympics headquarters

Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was… Read More »Iranian Mahsa Amini and the movement she inspired, ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’, win EU Sakharov prize

Tributes are being paid to the singer, with fans saying he had a “golden voice”.

International responses to the October 7 Hamas attack were broadly split between the Global North and South over condemnations of the killings of just Israeli… Read More »Israel-Hamas war tests Western unity as Global South slams ‘double standards’

The lawyer of Karim Benzema has hit back at France’s interior minister after he accused the French football star who plays for Saudi team Al-Ittihad… Read More »French footballer Benzema denies ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ link after Darmanin accusations

A French teacher stabbed to death last week by an Islamist former pupil was to be laid to rest on Thursday, after a funeral in… Read More »France pays respects to teacher killed in school terror attack

Mohamed Salah calls for “world leaders to come together to prevent further slaughter of innocent souls” amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict.

Turkish firm Karpowership puts the lights back on after the government partially settles a $15m debt.

The northern Israeli city of Qiryat Shemona, located 3 kilometres from the border with Lebanon has become a ghost town over the past few days… Read More »Israeli border city becomes ‘ghost town’ amid clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah