An attack involving gunmen and bomb blasts on a complex housing government ministries in Somalia’s capital killed at least 11 people on Saturday, including the deputy labour minister, officials said. Claimed by the Al-Shabaab Islamist group, the assault was a sign of the insurgency’s continued ability to strike […]
The death toll from a powerful cyclone that pummelled swathes of southern African countries, flooding thousands of square kilometres, on Saturday surged past 600 as diseases stalked tens of thousands of survivors. At least 417 people have died in Mozambique, according to government, bringing to 676 the total […]
Emergency services said on Saturday they had begun airlifting 1,300 passengers from a cruise ship in trouble off the Norwegian coast. The Viking Sky cruise ship sent an SOS message due to “engine problems in bad weather”, southern Norway’s rescue centre said on Twitter, while police reported the […]
Hundreds of thousands of protesters swamped London on Saturday demanding another referendum on EU membership amid political paralysis over Brexit, in one of the country’s biggest protests in decades. Organisers said about a million people opposed to Britain leaving the European Union joined what they called the “Put […]
Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the Islamic State group’s nearly five-year-old “caliphate” Saturday after flushing out diehard jihadists from their very last bastion in eastern Syria. Fighters of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces raised their yellow flag in Baghouz, the remote riverside village where jihadists from many […]
Clashes broke out in the latest “yellow vest” protests in French cities Saturday but a massive police deployment prevented more of the rioting and looting that marred last week’s rally in Paris. More than 40,000 people took to the streets across France for a 19th consecutive week of […]
Rescuers were working into the night on Saturday to airlift 1,300 passengers and crew off a cruise ship after it got into difficulty in rough seas off the Norwegian coast. The Viking Sky lost power and started drifting mid-afternoon two kilometres (1.2 miles) off More og Romsdal, prompting […]
World number one Naomi Osaka berated herself for a lack of maturity and focus Saturday as she fell in three sets to Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-Wei in the third round of the Miami Open. The Japanese star was left floored by the battling instincts of the world number 27, […]
Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied in Germany on Saturday to protest against an imminent EU copyright reform. Crowds protested in Berlin, Munich and other cities under the slogan “Save the Internet”. They called on the European Parliament to reject the reform in a vote scheduled for Tuesday. […]
Five years after the Islamic State group swept across Iraq, Baghdad is bidding to reclaim its role as a regional player while walking a tightrope between rival backers the US and Iran. The country is seeking to position itself as a “bridge” between rival powers in a region […]
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