India’s air defence system intercepts objects in the sky, after India-Pakistan ceasefire announcement, in the city of Jammu, May 10, 2025. Photographer Adnan Abidi By Reuters Nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire on Saturday after U.S. pressure and diplomacy, but within hours, blasts were reported from the main cities of Indian Kashmir,

By Anadolu Agency Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Friday her government filed a lawsuit against Google for changing the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America” on its US-based maps. Sheinbaum said at her media briefing at the National Palace in Mexico City that the government previously warned Google about the issue, but those

Somalia corrupt president Hassan Sheikh. File Photo Somali Times By The African Exponent The South Sudan and Somalia governments’ spending is now being monitored in real-time using digital systems to regulate corruption. Eritrea has added teaching anti-corruption to school curricula, Equatorial Guinea has adopted an e-ordering system, and Libya has eliminated paying ghost workers. Equatorial

A family sits in an open restaurant just before a suspected Pakistani attack in Jammu, May 8, 2025. Photographer Adnan Abidi By Reuters Pakistan’s armed forces launched “multiple attacks” using drones and other munitions along India’s entire western border on Thursday night and early Friday, the Indian army said, as conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours

By Anadolu Agency Algeria’s president reaffirmed Wednesday that the file of national memory related to France’s colonial rule over the country “will not be subject toto forgetfulness or denial.” Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s remarks came in an address to the nation on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the May 8, 1945 massacres committed by the

Metal debris lies on the ground in Wuyan in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district By Reuters India attacked Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir on Wednesday and Pakistan said it had shot down five Indian fighter jets in the worst fighting in more than two decades between the nuclear-armed enemies. India said it struck nine Pakistani “terrorist infrastructure”

A police officer walks outside New Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, in London, Britain March 21, 2023. Photographer Peter Nicholls By Reuters British counter-terrorism police have obtained warrants to further detain seven Iranian nationals arrested on Saturday in two separate investigations. Authorities secured warrants to detain four Iranians aged between 29 and

Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s special envoy Mu Hong, also the vice chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, in Libreville, capital of Gabon, May 4, 2025. At the invitation of Gabonese President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Mu attended Nguema’s inauguration ceremony on

By Anadolu Agency Israeli authorities suspended all flights at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday after a missile launched from Yemen struck near the facility. Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, reported that “several people sustained minor injuries due to a missile falling near Terminal 3 at Ben Gurion Airport,” without providing further details. The strike

By Reuters Uganda’s military chief, the son of President Yoweri Museveni, says he is holding an opposition activist in his basement and has threatened violence against him, after the man’s party said he was abducted by armed men last week. Eddie Mutwe, who also acts as the chief bodyguard for Uganda’s leading opposition figure, Bobi