NATURAL DISASTER: HURRICANE BERYL KILLS 5, HURTLES TOWARDS JAMAICA
After killing at least five people and wreaking havoc on a vast swath of the southeast Caribbean, Hurricane Beryl made landfall in Jamaica on Tuesday...
WORLD NEWS: MOBILE INTERNET CUT AFTER MAURITANIA PRESIDENTIAL POLL
Since Monday night, AFP journalists have been unable to use mobile internet in the capital of Mauritania due to altercations that started after it was...
UPDATE: 39 KILLED IN KENYA ANTI-TAX PROTESTS – NATIONAL RIGHTS BODY
A national rights watchdog reported on Monday that 39 people have died in anti-government demonstrations that broke out in Kenya over extremely unpopular proposed tax...
POLITICAL NEWS: MAURITANIA’S PRESIDENT GHAZOUANI WINS RE-ELECTION
Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, the current president of Mauritania, easily won reelection with 56.12% of the vote, the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) announced...
NEWS: ONE KILLED AS 20 INMATES STAGE PAKISTAN JAILBREAK
In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, twenty prisoners, some of whom were charged with terrorism, staged a jail break on Sunday, sources informed AFP. One of the prisoners...
POLICE ARREST FEMALE PRISON OFFICER FILMED HAVING SEX WITH INMATE IN UK CELL
Police have arrested a woman after footage emerged of a female prison officer having sex with an inmate in an HMP Wandsworth jail cell. The...
BIDEN TO PARDON US MILITARY PERSONNEL CONVICTED OF HOMOSEXUALITY
Declaring on Wednesday that he was "righting a historic wrong," US President Joe Biden pardoned military troops convicted under a statute that forbade homosexuality in...
WORLD NEWS: AUSTRIA SUMMONS RUSSIA ENVOY
Austria protested what it described as Moscow's "unprecedented" removal of an Austrian journalist's media accreditation on Wednesday by calling Russia's envoy to the nation. Journalist...
BREAKING: KENYA’S PRESIDENT WITHDRAW TAX PLAN AFTER DEADLY PROTEST
Following tragic protests on Tuesday that resulted in the parliament being set on fire, President William Ruto of Kenya has announced his intention to rescind...
ANTI-TAX HIKE: KENYA PROTESTERS VOW TO MARCH AGAIN
Organizers of the statewide protests in Kenya urged for further nonviolent marches against the very unpopular tax hikes on Wednesday, while a state-funded rights organization...