The Russian president has signed legislation that gives him the right to run for two more consecutive terms. The constitutional amendment was approved by referendum last…
A construction site manager whose lorry slid onto a railway track and led to Taiwan’s worst train disaster in decades has expressed “deep regret”. Lee Yi-hsiang,…
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has upheld the acquittal of Ivory Coast’s ex-President Laurent Gbagbo on charges of crimes against humanity. It paves the way for…
The White House dog Major has bitten again, just days after returning from training in Delaware following a similar incident earlier this month. A spokesman for…
The South African government has banned the sale of takeaway alcohol over this weekend’s Easter holiday to prevent a surge in coronavirus infections. President Cyril Ramaphosa…
High Street photographic equipment chain Jessops has filed a notice to appoint administrators. The camera retailer, which employs 120 staff and has 17 stores, is owned…
France bears “heavy and overwhelming responsibilities” over the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report by French historians says, but they found no evidence of French complicity. The…
A new double mutant variant of the coronavirus and 771 others have been detected in samples collected from 18 states across India. Of the 10,787 samples,…
Kenya has run out of ICU beds as the country deals with a surge in Covid-19 cases, the doctors’ union has said. Healthcare workers were among…
The government in Niger says the number of people now known to have been killed in attacks on Sunday by suspected Islamist militants is 137. Three…
