Criminal gangs in Ecuador have detonated explosive devices on a bridge, authorities said, causing damage to an inter-city route as the country contends with a wave of violence. Friday’s bridge explosion was the latest in a string of similar incidents that unfolded over a 48-hour stretch. National police commander Luis Garcia told the Associated Press … Read more
Africa has seen more military coups than democratic elections in recent years, to the determinant of the continent’s stability, peace and development. This week, Gabon’s Republican Guards staged a military coup against the country’s newly “re-elected” leader, only a month after the Presidential Guards in Niger overthrew the elected government there and following three other coups in neighbouring countries, … Read more
Guatemala City, Guatemala – It has been less than two weeks since progressive, anti-corruption candidate Bernardo Arevalo won Guatemala’s presidential election, capping a months-long campaign marred by scandals. But Arevalo’s victory in an August 20 run-off has not put an end to the political turmoil, as electoral officials earlier this week suspended the president-elect’s Seed … Read more
Secrecy had surrounded the funeral arrangements for the Wagner mercenary boss who was killed in a plane crash on August 23. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner Group chief who died in a plane crash last week, has been buried at a cemetery on the outskirts of St Petersburg. The funeral took place on Tuesday, away from … Read more
Madrid, Spain – Just over a week after the head of Spanish football kissed a female player on the lips after the women’s team won the Women’s World Cup, the sport – and perhaps Spanish society – have undergone a “seismic” change, experts say. The macho culture that has plagued the Spanish women’s game for … Read more
Russian investigators say genetic tests have confirmed that Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed in a plane crash on Wednesday. Russian investigators have confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the mercenary group Wagner, in a plane crash earlier this week based on results of genetic tests. Svetlana Petrenko, spokesperson of the country’s … Read more
With lead roles in two major motion pictures – the box office smash Brotherhood and the Amazon Prime Video original Gangs of Lagos – Tobi Bakre has stealthily emerged as the most exciting actor to hit the big screens in a long while. In Brotherhood, the 2022 action drama that finished its run as the … Read more
Kyiv has promised to retake the peninsula, which was annexed by Moscow in 2014. Russia’s defence ministry has said its air defence forces destroyed a large-scale Ukrainian-launched drone attack on the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Crimea has been targeted by Kyiv since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in … Read more
India becomes only the fourth country to land a probe on the moon after the United States, Russia and China. India has become the first country to land a spacecraft near the moon’s south pole after the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-3 touched down on Wednesday. The mission is seen as an important step for … Read more