International

The World Food Programme (WFP) has said there “very well could be” famine in remote areas of Yemen where the UN’s food agency does not have access, painting a bleak picture of the hunger crisis gripping the country, Aljazeera has reported. “Yemen is a disaster and I don’t see any…

Chinese government is threatening its US counterpart of “consequences” if it does not withdraw the sanctions imposed on the Chinese military over its purchase of fighter jets and missiles from Russia according to a Reuters report. On Thursday, the US State Department said Chinese purchases of SU-35 aircraft and S-400…

In India, Muslim men who use instant divorce will face jail term up to three years, according to an executive order. India’s government on Wednesday decided to make the practice of instant triple talaq (divorce) a punishable offence through an executive order after the draft law failed to pass in…

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved a 64 million U.S. dollars budget for immediate needs in the fight against a cholera outbreak that has so far killed at least 30 people in the capital Harare, a Cabinet minister has said. Funds will also be used to fight typhoid which has…

Two people have been reported dead in a powerful storm that ravaged southern China on Sunday. Typhoon Mangkhut which is one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in decades made its way into South China after killing dozens people in the Philippines. Quoting to state media, Reuters…

The French government for the first time admitted torturing Algerians during the 1954-62 war of independence leading to the death of more than 1.5 million Algerians. French president Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin, a communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the…

A Florida state court has sentence a man to prison for threatening to blow up a mosque. Dustin Allen Hughes, 26, from Cutler Bay, bagged 48 months in prison after heard of his threat to bomb the Jamaat Ul Muttaqeen Mosque of Pembroke Pines via a voicemail message he left…

Continuous slump sales is putting electronic giant, Samsun in a dicey situation as the mobile phone manufacturer is considering a potential withdrawal from China. Though, Samsung said on Monday that nothing had been decided on the fate of its Tianjin operation. “The overall smartphone market is having difficulties due to…

  Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that use Internet of Things devices are a significant threat to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and the potential it brings to revolutionise productivity and people’s lives in general. This was proven during the late 2016 DDoS attack largely ascribed to the Mirai botnet,…

Opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa has vowed to head to the court following President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s announced election victory. A victory which Chamisa has rejected saying it was fraudulent. The electoral commission said Friday, Mnangagwa, of the ruling ZANU-PF party, won 50.8 percent of votes in Monday’s presidential poll. Chamisa, of…