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
Sudan’s Bashir got $90m from Saudi royals
Sudan’s deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir has admitted to receiving $90 million in cash from Saudi royals, an investigator told a Khartoum court yesterday.
19 August 2019
19 killed in Uganda fuel truck blast
Nineteen people died when a fuel truck barrelled into other vehicles in a busy town in western Uganda and exploded, police said
19 August 2019
Sudanese celebrate transition to civilian rule
Rapturous crowds filled the streets of Khartoum yesterday as Sudan’s generals and protest leaders signed a historic deal paving the way to civilian rule.
17 August 2019
Sudan allows Al-Jazeera to reopen office
Sudan has allowed Qatari broadcaster Al-Jazeera to reopen its Khartoum office, which they had shut down in May, the channel’s
16 August 2019
17 seamen kidnapped off Cameroon
Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said yesterday.
16 August 2019
At least 60 killed, dozones injured
At least 60 people perished in Tanzania yesterday when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel.
10 August 2019
Tanzania fuel tanker blast kills 60
At least 60 people perish in Tanzania when a fuel tanker overturned and then exploded as people rushed to syphon off leaking fuel.
10 August 2019
Paramilitaries arrested in Sudan for pupils’ killing
Sudan’s ruling generals yesterday announced that nine paramilitaries had been arrested for the killing of four teenage demonstrators
2 August 2019
Rwanda shuts border with Ebola-hit DRC
Rwanda has shut its frontier with Ebola-hit Democratic Republic of Congo after a third case of the deadly virus was detected in the border
1 August 2019
Rwanda seals Congo border after third Ebola case in Goma
Rwandan authorities close the border with the Ebola-hit Congolese city of Goma for everyone other than Congolese citizens leaving Rwanda, as a third case was confirmed in Goma.
1 August 2019
Boko Haram fighters kill 65 in Nigeria
An attack this weekend by Boko Haram fighters on a funeral in northeast Nigeria has left 65 people dead, almost triple the initial toll, a
29 July 2019
Snake forces adjournment of parliament in Nigeria
A snake burst onto the chamber floor of a state parliament building in southwest Nigeria, sending lawmakers scampering and forcing an
26 July 2019
WHO sounds Ebola alarm as risks intensify
The World Health Organization declares Congo’s Ebola outbreak an international health emergency, sounding a rarely used global alarm after the virus threatened to spread to a major city and into neighbouring countries.
18 July 2019
13 killed in Nigeria building collapse
Thirteen people in central Nigeria died after a three-storey residential building collapsed after torrential rain, emergency workers said
16 July 2019
S Africa’s Zuma shrugs off graft allegations at inquiry
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma yesterday dismissed multiple graft allegations against him, telling a judicial inquiry he was
15 July 2019
26 killed in deadly Somalia hotel siege
At least 26 people, including several foreigners, are killed and 56 injured in a suicide bomb and gun attack claimed by Al-Shabaab militants on a popular hotel in southern Somalia, a top regional official has said.
13 July 2019
Endangered rhino numbers soar by 1,000% in Tanzania
The number of endangered rhinos in Tanzania has risen by 1,000 per cent after a government crackdown on organised gangs guilty of
11 July 2019
11 killed as boat capsizes in Niger
Eleven people drowned yesterday when their boat capsized on a river in central Niger, the governor of the region told AFP. The accident
11 July 2019
Over 80 migrants feared drowned off Tunisia coast
Dozens of African migrants are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast of Tunisia after setting of for Europe from Libya, a government source and the Tunisian Red Crescent have said on Thursday.
6 July 2019
Sudan military, protesters agree power-sharing deal
Crowds of jubilant Sudanese took to the streets of Khartoum yesterday to celebrate a landmark deal between protest leaders and the country’s ruling generals aimed at turning the page on months of political unrest.
5 July 2019