About 140 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, and police said they were in hot pursuit alongside military personnel. The attack is the 10th mass school kidnapping since December in northwest Nigeria, which authorities have […]
Tropical Storm Elsa has brought “flooding rains” and strong winds to Cuba after making landfall near the island nation’s Bay of Pigs on the south-central coast, as forecasters said the storm is expected to move toward the United States. The storm was moving over mainly […]
The United States left Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield after nearly 20 years by shutting off the electricity and slipping away in the night without notifying the base’s new Afghan commander, who discovered the Americans’ departure more than two hours after they left, Afghan military officials said. […]
Fast-moving Tropical Storm Elsa has made landfall near Cuba’s Bay of Pigs on its south-central coast, bringing “flooding rains” to the island nation before it is expected to move toward the United States. Cuban officials had evacuated 180,000 people as a precaution against the possibility […]
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out plans to end social and economic COVID-19 restrictions in England in two weeks’ time, a test of whether a rapid vaccine rollout offers enough protection from the highly contagious Delta variant. Johnson confirmed the government aimed to […]
Withdrawal a clear indication that the last of 2,500-3,500 US troops have left Afghanistan or are nearing a departure. Article source: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/7/5/will-the-us-do-u-turn-on-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal
A Honduran construction firm executive has been found guilty of being a collaborator in the 2016 killing of Indigenous environmental activist Berta Caceres, a court ruled on Monday, in what Caceres’ supporters welcomed as a “victory”. David Castillo is the former head of Desarrollos Energeticos […]
Indonesia is struggling with one of Asia’s worst coronavirus outbreaks as new cases more than quadrupled in a month, prompting a critical shortage of oxygen in several areas. At least 33 people died at a hospital in Yogyakarta when its supply ran out over the […]
The market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) surged to new highs in the second quarter, with $2.5bn in sales so far this year, up from just $13.7m in the first half of 2020, marketplace data showed. An NFT is a crypto asset, representing an intangible digital […]
The United Nations has warned that Yemeni children’s education and futures were under threat because of the continuing war in the Middle Eastern country. In a report titled Education Disrupted: Impact of the conflict on children’s education in Yemen, UNICEF said on Monday more than […]
