Pyongyang says it carried out a simulated tactical nuclear attack drill with mock atomic warheads attached to two long-range cruise missiles. North Korea has announced that it conducted a simulated “tactical nuclear attack” drill with two long-range missiles equipped with mock atomic warheads. The KCNA news agency, in a report on Sunday, said the drill … Read more

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has surveyed the destruction caused by Hurricane Idalia in the state of Florida but did not meet with Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come. Biden offered support and condolences to those affected by Idalia on Saturday after taking an aerial tour … Read more

Last month’s meeting between the Libyan and Israeli foreign ministers may ultimately achieve little but provide public justification for renewed fighting between Tripoli’s armed groups and the weakening, perhaps critically, of Libya’s interim prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, analysts have said. Since emerging from the ashes of the country’s 2011 revolution, Libya’s many militias have … Read more

At least one civilian killed as Kurds, Arabs hold demonstrations sparked by handover of local security headquarters to Kurdish party. A curfew has been imposed in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk after rival protests between Kurdish and Arab residents descended into deadly violence, according to officials. Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani ordered a curfew … Read more

Tensions rising as French President Emmanual Macron refuses to recognise coup. Niger’s coup leaders and France are in a standoff. Niger’s military wants to cut ties with the former colonial power. President Emmanuel Macron refuses to recognise their takeover. So how might this end? Presenter: Folly Bah Thibault Guests: Nicolas Normand, a former French ambassador … Read more

A Ukrainian court has placed billionaire businessman Ihor Kolomoisky under arrest for two months over fraud and money laundering charges as part of the war-torn country’s crackdown on corruption. The court on Saturday gave Kolomoisky the option of posting bail of more than 509 million hryvnias, equivalent to more than $13m. In an oblique reference … Read more

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir threaten to initiate legal action against the British broadcaster for reporting on media crackdown in disputed region. Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have “strongly objected” to an article published by the BBC on press freedom in the Muslim-majority region and have threatened to take legal action for “unfairly castigating” its work. The … Read more

Lagos, Nigeria – It is a dark night in Ikeja, capital of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic powerhouse and de facto entertainment capital of Africa. Deep inside the bowels of an empty factory is the award-winning rapper Remilekun Khalid Safaru, aka Reminisce. The factory is pitch black, the darkness broken only by small pools of blinding video … Read more

China has recorded a series of weak economic data in the past six months. China has been described as the world’s factory and the engine of global growth. Its economic rise was once seen as unstoppable. Then came COVID. Slowed by three years of strict lockdowns, the Chinese economy was expected to roar back in … Read more