Foreign News

The African top public health body said says that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus had been reported in the country. Officials first confirmed the…

At least 154 people died in the crush on Saturday night, the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency says. Of those who died, 98 were women and 56 were men. Police have identified 153 of the dead and informed their families, Yonhap news agency…

In Somalia, the death toll from Saturday’s twin bomb attack in the capital, Mogadishu, has climbed to at least 100, according to authorities. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction…

A UK cinema chain has cancelled all screenings of a “blasphemous” film about the daughter of the prophet Muhammad after branches were picketed by Muslim activists. Cineworld said it took the decision to cancel all showings of The Lady of…

The husband of a woman murdered in the Uvalde mass shooting has died of a heart attack two days after the attack. Joe Garcia, the husband of Irma Garcia, one of the two faculty members who was killed by an 18-year-old gunman at Robb…

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) said on Monday it will exit the Russian market after nearly 15 years as the coffee chain joins McDonald's Corp (MCD.N) in marking the end of the presence of some of the top Western brands in the country.…

The latest sanctions imposed on Russia over its military offensive in Ukraine have frozen about half of the country’s gold and foreign exchange reserves, according to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. “We have a total amount of reserves…

The UK has recorded 122,186 new cases of coronavirus and a further 137 deaths, the latest daily figures show. It is the highest number of new infections reported since the beginning of the pandemic. Yesterday there were 119,789 cases and…

Austria is putting all unvaccinated residents into lockdown from midnight on Sunday, the government has said. Anyone over the age of 12 who has not been double-jabbed will only be allowed to leave their homes for work, school, exercise…

US President, Joe Biden, on Thursday, August 26, pledged to hunt down the perpetrators of the suicide bombings that killed 12 American troops in Kabul and said the United States will not be deterred from its mission to evacuate…