Update / At least 111 killed after 7.4 quake hits Colombia
10 August 2026
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Natural Disaster
9 civilians killed in Sudan drone attack
31 July 2026
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Africa & rest of the world
Australian PM says to enact laws to govern AI
15 July 2026
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Australia
Two dead, several hurt in Toronto shooting, attacker at large
12 July 2026
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Canada
Aftershock hits Caracas as rescue efforts enter critical hours in Venezuela
29 June 2026
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Natural Disaster
US military to build war-ready stockpile in Australia: docs
17 June 2026
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Australia
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
7 June 2026
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Africa & rest of the world
WHO unveils $518m plan to fight Ebola
6 June 2026
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Africa & rest of the world
Suspected Ebola cases top 900 in DR Congo: WHO chief
25 May 2026
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Africa & rest of the world
Close shave: laser hair removal device sparks Australia airport evacuation
21 May 2026
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Australia
Army seizes power in Guinea, holds president
Guinean special forces seized power in a coup on Sunday, arresting the president and imposing an indefinite curfew in the west African country.
6 September 2021
Man dies in shark attack at Australian beach
A man has died following a shark attack in Australia despite the efforts of “incredibly brave” surfers and bystanders who came to his aid, authorities said yesterday.
5 September 2021
Brazil bank robbers strap hostages to cars during deadly raid
Heavily armed gangsters strapped hostages to their getaway cars after robbing two banks in Brazil, in a rampage that left three people dead, police and reports said Monday.
31 August 2021
Illegal mining up 500pc in decade
Illegal mining expanded by nearly 500 percent on protected indigenous reservations in Brazil in a decade, and by more than 300 percent on protected park lands, according to a study released Monday.
31 August 2021
70pc of adults in EU fully vaccinated
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said yesterday 70 percent of adults in the European Union were now fully vaccinated against Covid-19, hitting an end-of-summer target the bloc set for itself in January.
31 August 2021
Tight security, shops shut as S Sudan warns against protests
Security forces patrolled South Sudan’s capital Juba yesterday and many shops were shut as the authorities warned of a tough crackdown against anyone joining a planned anti-government protest.
30 August 2021
Virus sets S Africa schools back 20 years : minister
At least 10,000 children in South Africa have dropped out of school since the pandemic started, with students learning half or less than average in 2020 due to coronavirus, the education ministry said yesterday.
29 August 2021
Nigerian gunmen free scores abducted from schools this year
Nigerian gunmen have freed scores of students abducted from three schools in the northwest this year, officials said Friday,
28 August 2021
Nigerian gunmen free dozens of kidnapped seminary pupils
Nigerian gunmen have freed the remaining pupils from more than 100 kidnapped from an Islamic seminary in northwestern Niger State nearly three months ago, the school's head teacher said on Thursday.
27 August 2021
16 soldiers killed in jihadist-hit southeast Niger
An attack by hundreds of Boko Haram fighters on a town in Niger’s jihadist-plagued southeast killed 16 soldiers and wounded nine others, Defence Minister Alkassoum Indatou told AFP on Wednesday.
26 August 2021
Gunman kills four in attack near French embassy in Tanzania
An attacker wielding an assault rifle was shot dead after killing three police officers and an employee of a private security company near the French embassy in Tanzania on Wednesday, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said.
25 August 2021
Algeria cuts diplomatic relations with Morocco
Algeria cut diplomatic relations with Morocco on Tuesday, citing what it called hostile actions by its most populous neighbour with which it has had strained relations for decades.
25 August 2021
Guinea monitoring 172 contact cases of Marburg virus victim
Guinean health officials are monitoring 172 contact cases of a man who died of Marburg virus, Health Minister Remy Lamah said yesterday.
19 August 2021
Libya govt says political adviser kidnapped this month freed
A chief of staff to a senior politician in Libya’s capital who was abducted earlier this month by armed men has been freed, according to images broadcast by the interim government.
18 August 2021
47 migrants feared dead off Mauritania
Forty-seven migrants are feared to have died off the coast of Mauritania after a boat was found drifting with seven survivors on board, an official with the UN’s migration agency said Tuesday.
18 August 2021
Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 1,941
The death toll from a 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti has risen to 1,941 with more than 9,900 wounded, the Caribbean nation’s civil protection agency said on Tuesday.
18 August 2021
Massive Haiti Quake: Death toll jumps to over 1,200
The death toll from Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 1,200 yesterday, as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.
16 August 2021
21 die in road accident in northern Nigeria
Twenty-one people were killed on Sunday in a road accident in Nigeria’s northern Jigawa state, police said.
16 August 2021
Gunmen kidnap 20 from Nigeria college
Gunmen have killed three people at an agricultural college in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state and kidnapped 20 others, including 15 students, the school said yesterday, in the latest in a wave of mass abductions.
16 August 2021
Quake in Haiti: Death toll rises to 724
The death toll in Haiti’s powerful earthquake jumped to over 700 yesterday as crews desperately dug through collapsed buildings for survivors in the Caribbean nation still reeling from its president’s assassination.
15 August 2021