Category: Foreign
$51m cocaine found on cargo ship
Ukraine’s SBU security service on Thursday seized around $51 million worth of cocaine in a South American cargo ship that docked in the Black Sea port of Odessa. The...
107 killed in Indonesia’s flash floods, 93 still missing
The death toll from flash floods and landslides in the Papua Province of eastern Indonesia has exceeded 107 by Wednesday, an official and rescuers said. Meanwhile, the...
Four dead in India building collapse, more feared trapped
The death toll in a building collapse in a southern Indian town has risen to four, with more people still feared trapped, police said on Wednesday. The three-storey...
Nigerian woman, Chiaka Thelma, welcomes sextuplets in US hospital
A Nigerian woman, Chiaka Thelma welcomed six babies at the Woman’s Hospital of Texas over the weekend. According to the hospital, on its Twitter handle, the odds of...
Brexit crisis: PM May plots new course round Speaker’s obstruction
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans were in disarray on Tuesday as her government sought to plot a way around the speaker of parliament’s ruling that she had...
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...
