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
Oil truck fireball kills 42 in Kenya
A fireball from an oil lorry engulfed vehicles on one of Kenya's main highways, killing at least 42 people late on Saturday, a
11 December 2016
Suicide blasts kill 56 in Nigeria market
Two schoolgirl suicide bombers killed 56 people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated attack on a crowded market in the
10 December 2016
Fake US embassy in Ghana shut down
Authorities in Ghana have busted a fake US embassy in the capital Accra run by a criminal network that for a decade issued
4 December 2016
Jacob Zuma survives attempted ousting
South African President Jacob Zuma survived an attempt to oust him from office only after a "robust" and "difficult"
29 November 2016
Good bye 'father' Castro
Throngs of Cubans began streaming to Havana's iconic Revolution Square to pay tribute to Fidel Castro yesterday,
28 November 2016
Clashes kill 55 in Uganda; king held
Ugandan police stormed the palace of a tribal king and arrested him yesterday after fierce clashes between security
27 November 2016
Castro and end of apartheid
Southern African leaders paid glowing tributes to the late revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, but if one country will forever be heavily indebted to his leadership of Cuba, it is Angola.
27 November 2016
Fidel Castro A life in six snapshots
No one could have predicted his place in history when he launched his revolutionary career with a botched attack on
27 November 2016
Zika no longer a world health emergency
The World Health Organization on Friday announced that the Zika virus outbreak no longer poses a world public health
19 November 2016
Probe launched after 56 killed
Authorities in Mozambique were yesterday investigating whether locals were taking petrol from a tanker that
18 November 2016
Gunman kills 9 football fans in South Sudan
At least nine people are killed and 11 wounded in South Sudan's capital, Juba, when an unidentified gunman open fire on people watching a football match on television at the weekend.
7 November 2016
Zuma faces pressure to resign
South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday faced increasing calls to resign after a damaging probe unearthed further evidence
3 November 2016
Report finds 'criminal activity'
South Africa's anti-corruption watchdog Wednesday called for prosecutors to investigate alleged criminal activity as it released
2 November 2016
Clashes kill 25 in Central Africa: UN
Twenty-five people were killed, six of them gendarmes, in two days of violence around the town of Bambari in the troubled Central
29 October 2016
Gambia joins African queue to leave ICC
The Gambia has become the latest African nation to announce its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court,
26 October 2016
Islamist attacks kills dozens in Kenya
A bomb blast at a guesthouse in northeast Kenya killed at least 12 people yesterday, in an attack claimed by Shabaab militants
25 October 2016
South Africa quits ICC
South Africa announced Friday that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, dealing a major blow to a troubled
22 October 2016
Cameroon rail accident kills dozens
At least 60 were killed when a packed passenger train derailed between Cameroon's two main cities, a hospital source in the
22 October 2016
South Africa to exit war crimes court
South Africa yesterday announced that it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court, dealing a major blow to a
21 October 2016
25 feared dead in raid on migrant boat
Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, yesterday after men on a Libyan coastguard speedboat attacked a packed
21 October 2016