In a significant shift in the region’s diplomatic and security landscape, the foreign ministers of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger will visit Moscow this week to deepen their strategic ties with Russia.

The actor, known for playing Iceman in “Top Gun”, died from pneumonia, surrounded by his family and friends.

Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has commuted the death sentences of three Americans convicted on charges of participating in a botched coup attempt in the country’s capital Kinshasa last year, an official said Wednesday.

Guinea’s military Junta announces it will now hold a constitutional referendum on 21st September 2025 after missing 31st December 2024 deadline..to launch the democratic transition.

Niger’s Junta announced it released 50 people including former ministers and a journalist linked to a coup in 2010. Meanwhile ousted former President Mohamed Bazoum will stay in detention despite international calls for his release.

Susan Crawford beat Republican-backed Brad Schimel in a race that broke records for spending.

A trial commenced on Tuesday for an Italian farmer accused of homicide following the tragic death of one of his workers, an undocumented Indian laborer, who bled to death after a piece of farm machinery severed his arm.

France has assumed the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of April, with Ambassador Jerome Bonnafont leading the governing body.

The meeting in Doha would be the first between the two sides since the rebels backed by Rwanda captured two provincial capitals in eastern Congo

On Tuesday, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif delivered a report concerning the human rights landscape in the Democratic Republic of Congo, highlighting ongoing violations linked to the offensive initiated by the Rwandan-supported M23 group in eastern DRC.

The head of the Rassemblement National party declined to make preparations for a potential conviction. In her initial public response, she held back from handing over leadership to her deputy, Jordan Bardella, which has intensified political uncertainty within the far-right faction.

In recent years, the UK has come under growing pressure from United Nations bodies to return the islands and in 2022, the previous Conservative government began negotiations over the sovereignty of the territory.

The same publication also reported two teenagers were able to crawl out of the rubble of the same building to where rescue crews were working, using their cellphone flashlights to help guide them.

Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti will stand trial on tax evasion charges in Spain on Wednesday (2nd April).

In December, Burkina Faso’s Justice Ministry announced that approximately 1,200 people convicted in connection with the coup attempt would be eligible for pardons starting in January 2024.

On the eve of an expected new round of sweeping tariffs announced by US president Donald Trump, president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has said that the EU “holds a lot of cards” and that the bloc had a “strong plan” against the new measures.

Organizers say the protests are against a campaign by President Emmerson Mnangagwa ’s supporters for him to extend his rule beyond 2028, when his second and final term ends

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Convicted war criminal Thomas Lubanga has announced the formation of a new rebel movement, called Convention for the Popular Revolution, in eastern Congo’s Ituri province. The movement could further destabilise a region already battered by M23’s rapid advance.

The Houthis have continued their attacks on commercial vessels in the Red and Arabian Seas, claiming they are preventing Israeli-linked navigation in protest against the war in Gaza. Since late 2023, the rebels have targeted over 100 merchant ships, sinking two and killing four sailors.

Trump also highlighted upcoming trade measures, particularly his push for “reciprocal tariffs,” which he claimed would spark an economic resurgence

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer called the previous government’s scheme of sending irregular migrants to Rwanda “wasteful” and “inefficient”. Starmer’s government cancelled the scheme, but has recently tightened its stance on irregular migration.

The Health Department of the Philippines has reported a staggering 73 percent rise in dengue cases during the first quarter of 2025, contributing to an outbreak that the World Health Organization estimates has resulted in nearly a million suspected cases worldwide.

Saka has not played since December after needing surgery on a hamstring tear

The bodies of three US soldiers, who went missing during a training exercise on Tuesday last week, have been recovered from their vehicle submerged in a peat bog. A fourth soldier is still missing.

The Venezuelans were removed from the U.S. after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The law gives the president wartime powers and allows noncitizens to be deported without due process

rench President Emmanuel Macron and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune agreed on Monday during a phone conversation to revitalize their bilateral relationship.

Independence war veterans had called for people to take to the streets to protest against plans to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule.

During Trump’s first term, the U.S. unilaterally exited a 2015 nuclear agreemeent signed and reinstated sanctions on Tehran leading to the deal’s collapse

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention says 645 cases have been confirmed in laboratory tests.

Three Chinese nationals suspected of being kidnapped off Ghana’s coast are safe, China’s foreign ministry said Monday, without giving details.

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Mbappe’s 33 goals in all competitions since joining Madrid already equals the tally that Cristiano Ronaldo reached in his entire first season for the powerhouse in 2009-10

The paramilitary group’s commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo described its withdrawal from Khartoum as a tactical repositioning.

French court on Monday barred Marine Le Pen from seeking public office for five years, with immediate effect, for embezzlement — a hammer blow to the far-right leader’s presidential hopes.

Thousands of Kenya’s Muslim faithful flocked to the beach to perform Eid al-Fitr prayers and celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan along the shores of the Indian Ocean

Chandauka told Sky that Harry’s resignation had caught her blindsided and was “an example of harassment and bullying at scale.” She said he also had interfered with her whistleblower complaint.

Globally, plastics are infiltrating agricultural lands—spreading across fields through fertilizers, encasing seeds, serving as moisture-retaining tarps, and accumulating as waste from various industries.

Muslims believe that fasting during Ramadan teaches self-discipline, self-control, and empathy for those who are less fortunate

As war, displacement, and a deepening crisis continue to affect them, the Sudanese celebrated Eid al-Fitr with a glimmer of hope, highlighting their resilience amid the ongoing turmoil.