Namibia’s President, Hage Geingob, has died in a hospital in Windhoek. He died on Sunday February 4. He was 82 years old Geingob, who was serving his second term as president, revealed last month that he was receiving treatment for cancer. In a statement announcing his death signed by acting president Nangolo Mbumba. It said…
An Indian model sparked a huge backlash after confessing that she had faked her death in an Instagram post as part of a cervical cancer awareness campaign. According to the statement announcing her death on friday, it said Poonam Pandey “bravely fought the disease” and died, but the fake announcement was soon met with online…
President Macky Sall of Senegal has postponed the country’s presidential election scheduled for February 25, just hours before official campaigning was due to start. In an address to the nation, Sall said he signed a decree abolishing a previous measure that set the date as lawmakers investigate two Constitutional Council judges whose integrity in the…
India has finally released a pigeon suspected of spying for China after the bird spent eight months in police custody. The bird was held under lock and key at Bai Sakarbai Dinshaw Petit Hospital for Animals in Mumbai while police carried out an investigation. The pigeon was caught at a port in the financial capital,…
China has executed a couple who fatally threw two children out of the window of an apartment building. Zhang Bo – the father of the children – and Ye Chengchen were previously found guilty of killing the two-year-old girl and one-year-old boy in 2020. Zhang had begun an affair with Ye and later divorced his…
Almost nine decades after the plane was stolen by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, the Italian government has officially returned Ethiopia’s first plane. The official handover of the aircraft, named Tsehay in honour of the princess daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie, was celebrated on Tuesday by the Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed. “Today is a day…
China’s worldwide predominance in electric vehicles assisted it with overwhelming Japan as the world’s greatest vehicle exporter last year, official information affirmed Wednesday. Japanese goliaths, for example, Toyota and Nissan have been significantly more careful than their Chinese partners, as BYD on electric vehicles (EVs), banking rather on half and half models. Figures delivered Wednesday…
A court has heard that Run-DMC star Jam Master Jay was shot dead more than two decades ago by his godson as revenge for being cut out of a drug deal. Karl Jordan Jr, 40, and another man, Ronald Washington, 59, have gone on trial in New York accused of murder. In their opening statements…
North Korea fired another round of cruise missiles on Tuesday, Seoul’s military said, extending a recent flurry of tests of weapons that analysts warned could be destined for Russia’s war in Ukraine. This month, Pyongyang has conducted tests of what it called an “underwater nuclear weapon system”, a solid-fuelled hypersonic ballistic missile, and a new…
The US government has released the names of three troops killed by an enemy drone attack in Jordan on Sunday. They are 46 year old Sgt William Jerome Rivers, Specialist Kennedy Ladon Sanders, 24, and Specialist Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, 23. The three were killed when a drone hit their housing unit. The US has blamed…
