Madagascar’s justice minister defended a new bill Friday to castrate child rapists, with the measure deemed “cruel, inhuman and degrading” by Amnesty International. The upper house Senate approved the measure permitting chemical and surgical castration after it had been voted through by the National Assembly earlier this month. Amnesty International urged Antananarivo to drop the…
Malawi has removed Visa restrictions for citizens from the UK, China, Russia, Germany, Australia, Canada, Belgium, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone, France, and others. The exemption extends to nations that do not impose visa requirements on Malawian citizens. Under the new visa regulations, multiple entry visas in Malawi now have a validity period of up to…
More than 5,000 people are believed to have died in France as a result of sever summer heat last year “Everyone has been affected,” Caroline Semaille, head of France’s public health agency, told reporters as she presented a report on heat-related deaths last year. The summer of 2023, marked by four heatwaves including in August…
Six people were killed and 31 injured when a rain-induced landslide hit a gold-mining village in a mountainous province of the southern Philippines, on Wednesday. The landslide Tuesday night struck Masara in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island, provincial disaster official Edward Macapili told AFP, destroying houses and engulfing two buses used to transport…
At least 22 people were killed Wednesday in two separate bomb blasts outside poll candidate offices in southwestern Pakistan, officials said, on the eve of an election marred by violence and allegations of poll-rigging. The first attack occurred near the office of an independent candidate in Pishin district, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the…
At least 22 people have been confirmed dead and many more injured after two bomb explosions in Pakistan’s Balochistan province on the eve of general elections. The first blast killed 14 people in front of an independent candidate’s party office in Pishin district. A second explosion left eight people dead in Qillah Saif Ullah district,…
Former Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, who served two terms has died in a helicopter crash at the age of 74. Three other people aboard the aircraft survived when it came down in a lake near the southern town of Lago Ranco. Piñera had flown his own helicopter but there was no official confirmation he had…
A Kenyan court Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor, Paul Mackenzie, who has already been charged with terrorism, manslaughter as well as child torture and cruelty, is alleged to have…
Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles has been diagnosed with a form of cancer, although the specific type has not been disclosed. The diagnosis came to light during recent treatment for an enlarged prostate, ruling out prostate cancer. The King has commenced “regular treatments” as of Monday and will be scaling back on public…
Eighty-two-year-old Dr. Nangolo Mbumba has been sworn in as Namibia’s new President. Mbumba is Namibia’s former Vice President and has held the position since 2018. He was sworn in on Sunday by Chief Justice Peter Shivute in Windhoek, the country’s capital following the death of President Hage Geingob Born on August 15, 1941, Mbumba is…
