Uganda’s parliament passed legislation to curb alleged foreign influence after scaling back proposed restrictions on funding from abroad that the central bank governor said risked “economic disaster.” The proposal, entitled “The Protection of Sovereignty Bill,” was adopted late on Tuesday and now awaits the signature of President Yoweri Museveni. Museveni, who has been in power...
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A car bombing at a police post in northwestern Pakistan followed by an ambush on police personnel rushing to the scene has killed at least 14 officers, police said on Sunday. Images from after the attack on Saturday showed the structure had been reduced to rubble, with bricks, charred wreckage,...
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin marked WW2 Victory Day under the shadow of the Ukraine conflict on Saturday, as Russia held its most scaled-back parade in years due to the threat of attack from Kyiv, where victory for Moscow’s forces has proven elusive more than four years into the deadliest European conflict since World War...
Four South Florida men were convicted on Friday of plotting to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise in 2021 by hiring mercenaries to assassinate him at his Port-au-Prince home, court records show. Prosecutors argued during the nine-week trial in a Miami federal court that the men assembled two dozen former Colombian soldiers and supplied them with...
NAIROBI — France is turning to East Africa after losing ground in its former West African colonies, seeking to deepen ties elsewhere on the continent next week at an Africa summit in the Kenyan capital Nairobi — its first in an English-speaking country. With a year left in his presidency, French President Emmanuel Macron is...
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s president is under renewed pressure after the country’s highest court revived impeachment proceedings against Cyril Ramaphosa over a scandal in which a large amount of foreign currency was stolen from inside a sofa in his farmhouse in 2020. In 2022, Ramaphosa’s political party blocked an impeachment committee from being set up...
CONGO – “They burned him alive, without even leaving me a trace of him.” Those are the words of Justine Tangakeya Basekauke, whose husband, Dr John Tangakeya, was one of four health workers killed by an angry mob in northeastern Congo last October. The trigger? A fake rumour that spread like wildfire on social media...
Panic is growing over a deadly cruise ship virus with possible human-to-human transmission, as countries worldwide scramble to track passengers who may have been exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius. Three people — a Dutch couple and a German national — died in the outbreak. Eight people, including a Swiss citizen, are suspected to...
CAPE VERDE – A hantavirus outbreak has stranded passengers on a luxury cruise ship moored off Cape Verde, with seven confirmed or suspected cases and three deaths reported, as the World Health Organization investigates possible rare human-to-human transmission on board. The Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, carrying mostly British, American, and Spanish passengers, set off from the...
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — A deadly plane crash in Belo Horizonte has claimed three lives after a small aircraft crashed into a residential building shortly after takeoff. The airplane, which had five occupants on board, crashed into a three-storey residential building on Monday in Brazil’s southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, local officials and firefighters said....
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