The skies above Sri Lanka’s capital were transformed into a vibrant tapestry of movement and color on Sunday as the Colombo International Kite Festival returned after a five-year hiatus, symbolizing a nation’s hopeful turn towards normalcy and tourism.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has accused Israel of wanting to erase Palestine and destabilise the wider Middle East region.

”All peoples, even the smallest and weakest, must be respected by the powerful in their identity and rights, particularly the right to live on their land; no one can be forced into exile,” Pope Leo said.

Thousands of swimmers crossed the Bosphorus on Sunday as Istanbul hosted the 37th Intercontinental Swimming Race, an annual event linking Asia and Europe in open water.

Eight more people in Gaza have died from famine and malnutrition, Gaza health authorities said on Sunday. That brings the total number of hunger-related deaths in the enclave since the start of the war with Israel 22 months ago to 289, including 115 children.

In a significant step toward reestablishing control, two of Sudan’s top officials visited the capital on Saturday to evaluate security and infrastructure repairs, signaling the government’s intent to end its 16-month exile in Port Sudan and return to Khartoum by October.

A powerful storm swept Italy’s northern Adriatic coast at the weekend, battering tourist resorts and residential areas.

South Africa’s government has vowed it won’t let the US withdrawal of about $427 million in support collapse its HIV program, the largest in the world, but it is struggling to fill the gap.

Khartoum residents displaced by years of fighting are returning home. But the Sudanese capital’s infrastructure has been decimated and it will take years – and billions of dollars – to rebuild.

It is hoping this will help reduce a backlog of over 51,000 cases and speed up the process of removing people with no right to be in the country.

The release of the captives took place during a precision air strike on a bandit stronghold in Katsina State.

Polls there were delayed for a week due to security concerns, following an attack on an electoral commission facility in one of the areas.

The Salvadoran national, who has been living illegally in the US since about 2011, was wrongly deported to his home country earlier this year.

The 25 August marks the anniversary of the start of the Myanmar government’s military crackdown that forced them to flee.

Twenty-seven teams from 10 countries are taking part this year, including from Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, and Zimbabwe.

A group of human rights lawyers and NGOs says the country’s acceptance of five third-country deportees is unconstitutional.

A long wait for justice comes to an end in Kenya. The UK government has agreed to pay £2.9 million, or $4 million, in compensation to over 7,000 residents in Laikipia, after a wildfire sparked by a British military exercise devastated the region in 2021.

Ahead of a controversial constitutional referendum campaign, Guinea’s military junta moves to suspend three major political parties, including that of former President Alpha Conde, for three months.

On Friday, the country’s public prosecutor called for the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila, who is being tried in absentia for treason, war crimes, and supporting the M23 rebel group.

A major boost in Japan-Africa relations as 300 cooperation agreements were signed during the 9th Tokyo International Conference on Africa’s Development, or TICAD9, held this week.

Despite recent diplomatic efforts, violence continues to escalate in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where thousands have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced, the United Nations warns.

More than two years after the discovery of over 400 bodies linked to a doomsday cult in Shakahola Forest, authorities have uncovered five more bodies in a nearby village in Kilifi County. In addition to the exhumed remains, ten human body parts were found scattered across nearby thickets.

Uganda has agreed to a deal with the United States to take deported migrants as long as they don’t have criminal records and are not unaccompanied minors, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

The National Agency for Emergency Management confirmed the collapse followed days of intense rainfall. The disaster underscores Guinea’s vulnerability to extreme weather, coming just a year after record floods devastated West Africa, killing over 1,000 people and displacing hundreds of thousands.

Lil Nas X rose to fame with his 2018 smash hit “Old Town Road,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a record-breaking 19 weeks, and later released his acclaimed debut album Montero.

In a sweeping blow against the rapidly expanding cybercrime ecosystem in Africa, an international police operation has led to the arrest of over 1,200 individuals and the recovery of approximately $100 million, Interpol announced on Friday.

The State Department on Wednesday announced new sanctions on four ICC officials, including two judges and two prosecutors, for pursuing investigations into American and Israeli officials suspected of committing war crimes

High-stakes negotiations between the Congolese government and the M23 rebel group have finally opened in Doha, amid a climate of deep mistrust and a fundamental deadlock over the release of prisoners.

The U.S. government has tightened sanctions against Venezuela and placed a $50 million bounty on Maduro’s arrest, accusing him of corruption and drug trafficking.

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In a grim echo of a national tragedy, Kenyan authorities have exhumed five corpses from shallow graves just two kilometers from the site where over 400 followers of a doomsday cult perished two years ago.

The IPC determination comes after months of warnings by aid groups that Israel’s restrictions of food and other aid into Gaza, and its military offensive, were causing high levels of starvation among Palestinian civilians, particularly children

Berlin Zoo’s panda twins Leni and Lotti celebrated their first birthday on Friday with bamboo, colourful ice cream treats and a large red wooden number one.

The IOM says nearly 24,500 people have died or gone missing along the route over the past decade, making it one of the deadliest migration corridors in the world.

North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un led a ceremony in Pyongyang on Friday to honour troops who fought in Ukraine and to commemorate those killed, according to state media.

Passionate performers from around the world are gathering in Finland this week, competing not with instruments in hand but with invisible guitars.

Israel gave final approval Wednesday for an illeegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank that would effectively cut the territory in two

Its the US singer-songwriter’s 8th album and her second via her independent label, Beauty Marks Entertainment.

With the election just three months away, a bitter standoff over Samuel Eto’o’s eligibility, pitting the football federation against the government, threatens to paralyze Cameroonian football’s governing body.

“An air force fighter aircraft launched three targeted and successive strikes on the positions Bakoura used to occupy in Shilawa,” an army source told AFP.