On August 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood outside the Etzel Museum on Tel Aviv’s seafront after the wreck of the Altalena was discovered. The ship, which belonged to the right-wing Zionist paramilitary organisation Etzel, was shelled by the newly formed Israeli military in 1948.…
More than 1,300 people, including more than 700 foreign nationals, are missing across Nepal and China’s Tibet region after a huge collapse of mud and rock into a Himalayan river triggered catastrophic flooding across local towns and valleys, authorities have said. Nepalese police and tourism offici…
The owners of the National Football League (NFL) in the United States have unanimously approved the sale of the Seattle Seahawks for a league-record price of $9.6bn to a group led by the Khosla family. The sales agreement was announced on July 11 and awaited approval at a special meeting of the own…
OpenAI detected its artificial intelligence models communicating with each other and gaining internet access without authorisation months before they hacked the start-up Hugging Face, the creator of ChatGPT has announced following an internal probe. In a report released on Wednesday, OpenAI said it…
Farah, Mohammed and Jawad are getting ready for the new school year in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank. The children, aged 17, 8, and 7 respectively, attend Shaab al-Butum school in a village with the same name. But the building they’ll return to will be missing two administrative …
- Published At least 12 people have been killed and dozens injured as wildfires burn through large swathes of northern Algeria. Civil protection authorities said dozens of blazes swept through several provinces along the country's northern coastline. At least 54 people had suffered burn injuries, w…
- Published "If you ran into a room, they set the room on fire," says Fatima, describing a recent attack on her village in Zamfara, north-western Nigeria. "If you came out and started running, they shot you." The gunmen, who struck at 02:00, split into groups to surround residents: one at the villa…
- Published Fifty eggs suspected to be those of endangered parrots were intercepted at South Africa's main airport in Johannesburg last Thursday - and some of them have now hatched. A 50-year-old Thai national was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle them in a "homemade incubator bag" carri…
- Published Guinea's President Mamadi Doumbouya, 41, has dismissed more than 170 soldiers for "desertion", including a colonel who helped him seize power in a coup in 2021. Col Michel Lamah was a member of the Special Forces Group (GFS), the elite army unit which Doumbouya once commanded. When he o…
- Published China's foreign ministry has told its citizens to leave the southern African kingdom of Eswatini over "security risks". The ministry cited "rampant cyber fraud and criminal activities associated with gambling" as among its security concerns, but did not give details. It suggested its ci…
- Published Former head of Rwanda's presidential guard Tom Byabagamba, 59, who once served as President Paul Kagame's personal bodyguard, has died in jail. He was arrested in 2014 along with his brother-in-law Frank Rusagara, a retired brigadier-general, for "spreading rumours" and "tarnishing the …
Qure.ai appoints Mihir Bhanushali as executive vice president, global healthindiantelevision.com
Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, has commissioned the newly remodelled and digitally equipped 80-bed Obingwa General Hospital in Mgboko, headquarters of Obingwa Local Government Area, and renamed the facility after the late human rights activist, Chima Ubani. The commissioning took place on Tuesday,…
Facing the deepest cuts to international health financing in a generation, African nations are aggressively shifting strategies to prioritize domestic resource mobilization, health taxes, and regional self-reliance. World Health Organization (WHO) Director-Ge…
An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African crimin…
Deborah Lupton / Servers in a Landscape / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 By Emmet Cole Robots clean rivers and sort waste, monitor ecosystems, and inspect renewable-energy infrastructure. But even the greenest robot has an environmental footprint. If robotics is going to help build a more sustainable world,…
Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/ventures-platform-goes-bigger-and-broader-with-its-second-africa-fund Ventures Platform has raised an oversubscribed $83 million second fund as the Pan-African venture firm expands beyond its home ma…
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has said he asked former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, to apologise to him following their heated exchange at the Nigerian Bar Association’s Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. Sowore said he made the demand…
- Published Great Britain's men's basketball team have turned to the NBA in their bid to progress into the full qualifying rounds for the 2029 EuroBasket campaign. The side, led by Newcastle Eagles head coach Marc Steutel, has been able to name three players in his squad who are either current or r…
Thirty-three state governments have spent at least N512.10bn on Government Houses, Governors’ Offices and travel in the first six months of 2026, about 4,713 times higher than the combined six-month salary of Nigeria’s 36 governors. Ogun State Police Command had dismantled an illegal baby factory s…
