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Malian strongman Colonel Assimi Goita was sworn in as transitional president of the chronically unstable Sahel state on Monday, an AFP journalist saw.

  The Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid announced Wednesday night that he has managed to form a coalition after a series of back-to-back meetings with the leaders of the anti-Netanyahu camp in the Knesset.

Joe Biden is “finishing the job” begun by Barack Obama, the former president told the New York Times in an interview released on Tuesday.

It is the third naval disaster for Iran in recent years - 19 sailors were killed in 2020 in a training exercise in the same area. Iran’s largest navy warship has sunk in the Gulf of Oman after catching fire.

Gunmen have attacked and wounded Uganda’s Transport Minister and former army commander, Gen Katumba Wamala, killing his daughter and driver.

Belgium is ending the posting of its ambassador to South Korea after his wife assaulted a woman in Seoul.

Emily Gladwin, 38, woke to the tragic news that her granddad had passed away and was barely home from hospital when her dad then died days later A woman has been hit by a double tragedy after waking from a coma to find her granddad had died only for her dad to pass away days later. Emily Gladwin, 38, initially …

By Paul Melly Africa analyst Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has appointed his son Denis-Christel as a cabinet minister - a move that has revived media speculation that he has a dynastic succession in mind.

Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, has ordered authorities to “catch and eliminate” pigeons as he believes the birds are flying over from China carrying Covid-19 Kim Jong-un has issued orders for pigeons to be “eliminated” as he believes they are spreading Covid-19.

Chinese scientists created Covid-19 in a Wuhan lab before orchestrating an elaborate cover-up, a bombshell study claims.