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A woman who spent her childhood years living in German refugee quarters, haunted by uncertainty over how long her family would be allowed to stay in the country, has now become its first black female cabinet minister. Aminata Touré,…

Donald Trump has announced the death at 73 of Ivana Trump, his first wife and the mother of his three oldest children, Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric. In a post to his Truth Social platform, the former president said: “I am very saddened to…

British DJ Tim Westwood is facing allegations from a woman who says he first had sex with her when she was 14 and he was in his 30s. The woman claims Westwood had sex with her on several occasions in the early 1990s, when the age of…

Britain Foreign Office on Thursday said it would provide a further 2.5 million euros ($2.96 million) as a support package to Ukrainian prosecutors investigating alleged war crimes committed by invading Russian forces. It said the package…

The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has called on the international community to be strongly committed to prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine. “Law should not play a secondary role“, Khan said at the…

The military government of Mali has had guards of a UN camp at Bamako airport arrested, in a move slammed by the German government. The detainees from neighbouring Côte d’Ivoire were flown to Mali as a replacement contingent for another…

China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Wednesday. The Tianlian II-03 satellite was launched at 12:30 a.m. (Beijing Time) by a Long March-3B…

The outbreak of an unknown disease has claimed the lives of 20 children in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, provincial director of information and culture Hafiz Rashid said Wednesday. The infected children died over the past…

Fresh protests are underway in Sri Lanka demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The protest happened hours after Sri Lanka’s embattled President, Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his wife fled the country to Maldives on…

At least 15 people were killed and two dozen more are feared trapped after Russian Uragan rockets hit a five-storey apartment block in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, local officials said on Sunday as rescuers picked their way through rubble.…