(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Palestinian militant group Hamas released on Wednesday a video of an Israeli-American man held hostage in Gaza and seen alive in the footage. Israeli media identified him as Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who was abducted from the Nova music festival in southern Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7. “I went to hang […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday promised that deportation flights of asylum seekers to Rwanda will begin in “10 to 12 weeks”, as the plan entered its final stage in parliament. “We are ready, plans are in place and these flights will go, come what may,” Sunak told a Downing Street […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Indonesian rescuers raced to evacuate thousands of people Thursday after a volcano erupted five times, forcing authorities to close a nearby airport and issue a warning about falling debris that could cause a tsunami. The crater of Mount Ruang flamed with lava against a backdrop of lightning bolts overnight after erupting four […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has cautioned Israel against any attempt to retaliate against last weekend’s drone and missile attack. Raisi made the caution while speaking in separate phone calls to various foreign leaders saying that Iran would respond “more fiercely, widely, and painfully” if Israel retaliated the attack when he Also, Iranian […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has condemned the “large-scale attack” launched in Israel by Iran. Guterres, in a statement, urged maximum restraint by all parties and warned that neither the region nor the world could afford another war. According to the latest reports, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles from its territory […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israel was coming under direct attack from Iran Saturday, the army announced, in a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes that threatened to overshadow the conflict in Gaza. Iran had repeatedly threatened to strike Israel in retaliation for a deadly April 1 air strike on its Damascus […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The United States government, through its Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Friday, in Abuja, donated some laboratory equipment to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC). Dr Farah Husain, Programme Director, CDC Division, Global Health Protection, who donated the equipment, explained that they were the U.S. government’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – At least 29 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday, the official news agency WAFA reported. The people died when a residential building was struck. Dozens of people were also injured in the attack. The Israel Defense Force ,in a statement on Friday ,said the airforce had attacked more than […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump on Saturday compared himself to South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, sparking quick and virulent criticism from President Joe Biden’s campaign team. The 77-year-old Trump has been indicted in four different criminal cases, all of which could end in jail time for the billionaire real estate […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Los Angeles police and the FBI are investigating a daring heist of nearly $30 million in cash after burglars apparently broke through the roof of a money storage facility and cracked a safe. David Cuellar of the Los Angeles Police Department said the robbery — one of the largest cash thefts in […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Israeli air strikes destroyed the Iranian embassy’s consular annex in Damascus Monday, Syrian and Iranian officials said, with a top Revolutionary Guard commander among seven members the force said were killed, amid worsening regional tensions. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps named Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and another high-ranking officer, Brigadier General […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Thousands of Israelis took to the streets again on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing religious government. This is happening as there is no sign of a let-up in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza almost six months in. In Tel Aviv, demonstrators called for early elections as well as […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A major bridge in the US city of Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday after being struck by a container ship, sending multiple vehicles and people plunging into the frigid harbor below. Dramatic footage showed a 300-meter vessel hitting the Francis Scott Key Bridge, bringing the steel-built structure crashing into the Patapsco River. Lights […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Kremlin on Friday warned the European Union against plans to impose tariffs on its grain exports and use profits from frozen Russian assets to arm Ukraine. Ukraine has heaped pressure on Europe to cut off all sources of revenue for Russia, as Kyiv grapples with routine air strikes and hold ups […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Incumbent President Vladimir Putin has won the 2024 Russian presidential election, according to official results announced by the Russian Central Election Commission (CEC) on Thursday. The final results announced by the CEC during a press conference showed that Putin secured 87.28 of the votes in the election. According to recent data, 76,277,708 […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Friends and allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin were quick to congratulate him on his election win but Western leaders from the United Kingdom, Ukraine and others have denounced what they called an illegal election. Here is a round-up of the main reactions so far: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the result […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Vladimir Putin has secured another six-year term as Russian president, exit polls showed Sunday, paving the way for the hardline former spy to become the longest-serving Russian leader in more than 200 years. Victory for the 71-year-old was never in doubt, with all his major opponents dead, in prison or exiled, and […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Former US vice president Mike Pence said Friday he would not be backing Donald Trump as his old boss runs for a second term in the White House. “It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” Pence said in an interview with Fox News. […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – EU countries have reached a preliminary agreement to impose sanctions on “violent” Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and on Hamas for sexual violence during the October 7 attack, officials said on Friday. A high-ranking EU official said that he expected foreign ministers from the bloc’s 27 member states to give political […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Donald Trump marched Wednesday towards a bitter rematch against President Joe Biden in November as his final Republican rival Nikki Haley thew in the towel after a thumping defeat in the “Super Tuesday” primaries. Pointedly declining to endorse the man she has portrayed as chaotic and mentally incompetent, former UN ambassador Haley […]
