A video of the moment Mali's interim President was attacked by a knifeman while he was praying at the mosque has emerged.
President Assimi Goita was at the Great Mosque in Bamako on Tuesday, July 20, in celebration of Eid al-Adha.
During the prayers, an assailant tried to stab him. He survived.
Security agents...
Six people including one foreign citizen have been arrested by the police in Madagascar for reportedly plotting to assassinate President Andry Rajoelina.
Attorney General Berthine Razafiarivony said on Thursday Juky 22, that the arrests took place on Tuesday July 20 as part of months-long investigation “into an attack on state security”.
Though there was no official...
At least 31 people have been killed after torrential rain swept through Mumbai, India late on Sunday, July 18..
Twenty-one people died in the Mumbai suburb of Chembur, in India's western state of Maharashtra, while 10 people were killed in the suburb of Vikhroli, according to Satya Pradhan, India's National...
The United States Air Force has announced it will be sending more than two dozen F-22 stealth fighters to an exercise in the western Pacific this month, an unusually large deployment of the powerful jets that military analysts say sends a strong warning to China.
The F-22s are the world's...
Boris Johnson has announced that online racists will be banned from football matches in the wake of abuse aimed at England stars.
England trio, Bukayo Saka, Jadon Sancho, and Marcus Rashford were targeted with sickening racial abuse following Sunday's Euros final defeat after they missed penalty shootout against Italy at...
Bill Gates blamed himself for "messing up" as he opened up about his messy divorce.
The billionaire spoke last week at the exclusive Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, widely known as "summer camp for billionaires", in Sun Valley, Idaho.
One attendee at the camp said the Microsoft founder was "emotional" and on the...
Videos have emerged showing the Taliban militant group killing Afghanistan special forces.
The killings allegedly happened on June 16 in the town of Dawlat Abad by the Taliban in Faryab province, close to Afghanistan's border with Turkmenistan.
Across Afghanistan, tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced amid a surge in fighting...
A factory fire in Bangladesh has reportedly killed 52 people and injured 30 others.The fire broke out on Thursday night, July 8 at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital city, Dhaka.
Authorities told AP news agency the fire happened due to the chemicals...
The European Commission has fined Volkswagen Group and BMW the sum of $1 billion for colluding with Daimler to hold back the development of technology that could have reduced harmful emissions from their vehicles.
In a statement released on Thursday, July 8, the Commission said the three German carmakers, along...
A container ship anchored at Dubai's huge Jebel Ali port caught fire late Wednesday, July 7, the Emirate's media office has reported.
According to the report the fire caused an explosion that sent tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.
Dubai's state-run media office said that a team...
A court in France has found eleven people guilty of sending abusive messages to a French teenager who posted videos criticizing Islam online.
After Mila (aged 16 then) was called a "dirty lesbian" by a Muslim blogger for speaking about her sexuality on Instagram she posted a clip on Instagram criticizing Islam.
She...
Russian hackers suspected to be behind a mass extortion attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday, July 4, have demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom.
According to a posting on a dark web site, the cybercrime gang, a Russia-linked group that is...
A 25-year-old actress in West Bengal, India, has lodged a complaint with the Kolkata Police alleging that she has been receiving a barrage of online hate comments regarding her “dusky skin tone”
Shruti Das, who debuted in 2019 in Bengali soap "Trinayani", said she had been shamed for her skin tone...
Fifty people have been confirmed dead after a Philippine Air Force plane crashed in the southern Philippines on Sunday. It's one of the country’s worst military air disasters in 30 years.
The C-130 military plane was reportedly carrying 96 military personnel and crew from Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao to...
Roman Catholic church head, Pope Francis has undergone surgery hours after attending the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square on Sunday July 4, the Vatican has announced.
According to Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni, the pope had surgery for "colon diverticulitis,"
Diverticulitis is an inflammation caused when people develop small...
The US government under Joe Biden has ordered a halt on federal executions that were resumed in 2020 under the Trump administration after a 17-year hiatus.
The Trump administration carried out 13 federal executions during the former president's final months in office, before the Trump the last execution occured 17...
Japan has vowed to work with the US in protecting the Island of Taiwan as China continues to make threats against the self governed island of more than 20million people.
Japan warned of the growing threat posed by Chinese and Russian collaboration and said it was necessary to "wake up"...
A Frenchwoman who admitted to killing her abusive husband, fainted in apparent shock in court on Friday, June 25, after hearing that she could walk free.
According to a lawyer for the accused, the prosecution has asked for a sentence of five years in prison for Valerie Bacot, with four years...
The Russian government has warned the UK that it will bomb its British warship, HMS Defender, the next time it sails too close to Crimea after warning shots were fired at HMS Defender on Wednesday, June 23.
The British Type 45 destroyer sailed within the 12-mile limit of Crimea near...
A previous Japanese justice minister received a three-year jail term on Friday for vote-buying in an attempt to get his wife elected to a national office, local media said.
Katsuyuki Kawai, 58, was found guilty of charges that he distributed 29 million yen ($260,000 at today’s rates) to about 100...
A British Airways plane on Friday, June 18, suffered a nose gear collapse on the tarmac at Heathrow Airport, London.
Airport emergency crews rushed to the scene with the extent of the damage to the plane not yet known.
Photos show the Dreamliner 787 with its nose on the ground while...
More than 30 women have sued pornographic content company, Pornhub, alleging exploitation for using their explicit videos without seeking their permission.
The women say the videos were uploaded to Pornhub without their consent and have lodged a civil suit in California accusing Mindgeek, the parent company of Pornhub of running...
Hungary has passed new anti-LGBT laws ahead of a must win 2022 election for hardline nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
The legislation passed on Tuesday, June 15 by Hungary's parliament bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to promote homosexuality and gender change.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban (pictured above) has...
Transatlantic security alliance, NATO for the first time has warnes China in its communique following it's summit in Brussels on Monday, June 14.
NATO confronted China’s military ambitions for the first time, saying Beijing presents “systemic challenges” for the transatlantic security alliance.
The communique marks a diplomatic victory for US President...
A mystery bidder has paid a whopping $28m (£20m) for a seat on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's first crewed spaceflight by his Blue Origin company to space.
The winning bid was made at an auction on Saturday, June 13, with Blue Origin tweeting that the winner's identity would be revealed...
United States investigators have recovered millions of dollars of cryptocurrency paid to Russian ransomware hackers in the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, the Justice Department said in a statement on Monday June 7.
“Earlier today, the Department of Justice has found and recaptured the majority of ransom Colonial paid to the DarkSide...
Tech giants and multinational companies such as Amazon, Google, Facebook will no longer be able to shift profits to low-tax offshore havens, after G7 Nations led by the US and UK agreed on a deal on taxation.
The landmark deal agreed on Saturday, June 5, will enable them to squeeze...
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has deployed 19 warships with accompanying fighter jets from 11 of it's member nations in war games off Portugal as they practise deploying to the Black Sea.
Britain's state of the art Navy carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth led other Warships from the US, Germany,...
China has scrapped its controversial 'two child' policy and will now allow couples to have three kids.
According to Chinese state media, the move was approved by President Xi Jinping in order to aid the country's ageing population.
This comes after Beijing abolished its infamous 'one child' policy in 2016 which...
French President, Emmanuel Macron has publicly acknowledged France's role in the 1994 genocide of Rwandans but stopped short of apologizing.
In a statement on Thursday, May 27, following a visit to the Gisozi memorial in the Rwandan capital Kigali, Macron acknowledged France's "overwhelming responsibility" in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda...
WhatsApp has sued the Indian government in a bid to block new rules it says would lead to "mass surveillance" by forcing social media platforms to hand over private information about their users.
The company owned by Facebook, confirmed Wednesday, May 26, that the lawsuit has has been filed with...
The European Union has announced it will sanction Belarus and call on its airlines to avoid it's airspace, after a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to land in the country on Sunday May 23, and a political activist/dissident journalist on board was arrested.
Ryanair (RYAAY) flight 4978...
Iraqi President Barham Salih has said that an estimated $150 billion of stolen oil money has been smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt deals since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Sunday, May 23 statement came as the Iraqi President submitted a draft Corrupt Funds Recovery Act to the...
North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un has reportedly banned mullet hairstyles and skinny jeans in North Korea.
The decision was made over concern that they reflect Western cultures that might influence young people in the country and impact his regime.
North Korean newspaper Rodong Sinmun - which is owned by the ruling...
US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has slammed China’s human rights violations against the Uighurs and other ethnic minorities, calling for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, saying that global leaders who attend would lose their moral authority.
US legislators have been increasingly vocal about an Olympic boycott...
US President, Joe Biden on Thursday, May 20, signed into law anti-hate crime legislation in response to the surge of attacks on Asian Americans during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The newly enacted law, COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, would establish a position within the Justice Department centered on anti-Asian hate crimes and...
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, May 19, vowed to continue a fierce military offensive in the Gaza Strip, rejecting calls from U.S. President Joe Biden to deescalate the operation that has left hundreds dead.
Netanyahu’s comments marked the first public rift between US and Israel since the fighting...
Data from Israeli authorities and the Palestinian Health Ministry have revealed that Israel bombed the house of Hamas' Gaza leader and obliterated a family's home in Gaza as Hamas launched more than 100 rockets toward Israel on Sunday May 16, marking the deadliest day of the week-long conflict so...
The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a strong warning that the second year of Covid-19 is set to be "far more deadly."
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, (WHO) Director-General issued the warning on Friday, May 14.
He stated that “we’re on track for the second year of this pandemic to be far...
The US is currently experiencing fuel scarcity and people are already panic buying.
The fuel scarcity is due to a shutdown of the biggest U.S. fuel pipeline by hackers.
Gas stations from Florida to Virginia began running dry and prices at the pump rose on Tuesday, May 11, as the shutdown of the...
Hamas launched rockets on Jerusalem Monday evening while thousands of Israelis celebrated Jerusalem Day, according to reports.
The group, which has been the de facto administrator of the Gaza Strip since 2007, made threats earlier in the day to punish Israel for violent confrontations with Palestinians.
Watch the latest video at...
A glass bridge shattered while a man was walking on it and he had to hold on to the side of the bridge for his life.
The walkway located in the Piyan Mountain in the city of Longjing, China, was blown to pieces in howling 90 mile per hour winds.
The glass beneath...
Three shoppers are fighting for their lives after a knifeman went on a stabbing spree at a Countdown Supermarket in Dunedin, New Zealand on Monday, May 10.
Eyewitnesses said there was chaos as a knifeman injured several people in Dunedin before walking into a police station next door.
Three of those stabbed are in critical...
Two al Qaeda operatives have reportedly warned that a war “on all other fronts” will continue against the United States unless all its forces are “expelled from the rest of the Islamic world.”
This comes as the Biden adminstration has started the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, 20 years after...
The New York Upper East Side apartment of Donald Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was raided by the FBI on Wednesday morning, April 28, in connection with the bureau's ongoing investigation into his dealings in Ukraine.
Guiliani has been under investigation for more than two years in connection with the...
The 93rd Annual Academy Awards which celebrates the achievements in television and film over the previous year, held on Sunday night, April 25 with just 170 guests in attendance.
The socially distanced ceremony was broadcast from two locations in Los Angeles: The Dolby Theatre and Union Station, and celebrities stormed...
A 39-year-old nurse in the US state of Florida has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Niviane Petit Phelps was arrested following an investigation by the US Secret Service.
Acording to a criminal complaint filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District...
France has finally set the age of consent to 15 following public outrage over a schoolgirl's rape case that saw 20 firefighters dodge a rape charge despite repeatedly having sex with the then 13 year old.
France's Parliament voted unanimously to make rape with children under the age of 15...
A Ukrainian diplomat has warned that his country may be forced to acquire nuclear weapons to safeguard the country if NATO does not accede to its membership demand amid spiralling tensions with neighbouring Russia.
Andriy Melnyk, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany, suggested to national public radio network Deutschlandfunk that Ukraine President...
A number of US states are suing Joe Biden over the president’s decision to allow a new wave of Mexican asylum seekers into America.
Texas, Arizona and Missouri have all filed federal court lawsuits against the Biden administration for reversing former president Donald Trump’s controversial so-called ‘remain in Mexico’ policy.
In...
US President, Joe Biden on Wednesday April 14, formally announced his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan before September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that led the US into the country to wage its longest war.
Biden delivered...
Russia has issued a warning to the US to keep its warships away from Crimea "for their own good" and accused them of turning the region into a "powder keg", as tensions and hostilities continue to rise at Ukraine's border.
The US has deployed two warships to the Black Sea...
Military tensions between China and the US in the South China Sea spiralled over the weekend as a Chinese aircraft carrier entered the region while a US Navy expeditionary strike group wrapped up military exercises.
China's Global Times Newspaper on Sunday said the country's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, entered...
Iran has said it will "take revenge" for an attack on an underground nuclear site, allegedly carried out by their eternal enemies, Israel.
According to Iranian officials, the Natanz uranium enrichment plant was the target of "nuclear terrorism" on Sunday, April 11, after the nuclear site experienced power failure.
The reported...
The Russia-Ukraine crisis could "erupt into all-out war" within days as tens of thousands of Russian military forces have been deployed to the Russia-Ukraine border after the Kremlin threatened to "end" Kiev' .
The terrifying news comes amid reports US nuclear bombers have been patrolling the skies in anticipation of...
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has seized RM3.5 million cash, luxury vehicles, yacht, helicopters from a suspect who headed a "project tender cartel"
The cartel said to be in operation since 2014, has been monopolising government tenders. It's believed that the syndicate used more than 150 companies to submit tenders or quotations...
