Category: Foreign
8-year-Nigerian boy becomes chess star in America
Tanitoluwa Adewunmi, an 8-year-old Nigerian boy has become a child-chess star in the United States. Adewunmi, whose family is homeless in Manhattan, has seven trophies...
Mosque attack: New Zealand pledges gun control
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday she would announce new gun laws within days, after a gunman killed 50 people in mass shootings at two mosques in...
Crash victims’ families get bags of dirt for burial
Families of the 157 Ethiopian Airlines plane disaster were at the weekend given bags of scorched earth from the crash site in place of bodies for burial. The measure was...
Forex: Dollar on back foot after soft data fans bets on dovish Fed
The dollar licked its wounds on Monday after soft U.S. data increased bets the Federal Reserve will cut rates later this year while the pound hovered near nine-months...
Over 100 dead, 200 missing as cyclone hits Mozambique, Zimbabwe
More than 100 people have died and many more are missing in Mozambique and neighbouring Zimbabwe on Sunday after tropical cyclone Idai barrelled across the southern...
S/media giants under scrutiny over New Zealand shooting footage
Social media giants Facebook, Twitter, Google on Friday faced scrutiny over extremist content on their platforms after video footage of mass shootings in New Zealand was...
49 killed across two mosques, 20 seriously injured
Forty nine people have been killed and more than 20 others have been seriously injured at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch after at least one...
US actor, Jussie Smollett pleads not guilty to hate attack hoax charges
US television actor Jussie Smollett pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he lied to police about being the victim of a racist, homophobic hate crime. The...
Woman trying to save dog struck, killed by train
A woman and her dog were killed in Germany when both were struck by a train as she tried to rescue the pet that had wandered onto the tracks, Police said on Thursday....
Families of Ethiopian plane disaster victims harden themselves for journey to crash site
Ethiopians clad in traditional mourning shawls and other black clothing gathered silently in a hotel conference room in Addis Ababa, local media reported on Thursday....
