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Two blasts near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens more, local officials said on Wednesday. The explosions come a day ahead of the country’s general election. What we know about the blasts in Balochistan In the first incident, at least 14 people were killed at the office of an independent candidate in Pishin district. A second explosion left 12 people dead in Qilla Saifullah, a town near the Afghan border. Later on Wednesday, an offshoot of the so-called “Islamic State” group claimed responsibility for the Qilla Saifullah blast online. The group said…
Namibia managed a peaceful power handover in the early hours of Sunday after the death of President Hage Geingob. The 82-year-old leader, in power since 2015, died after a brief battle with cancer. His successor, interim President Nangolo Mbumba, took the helm. But he has no plans to run for the presidential election due in November this year. “I am not going to be around for the elections, so don’t panic,” Mbumba said at his swearing-in ceremony the day his predecessor died. Mbumba’s decision is rare among African leaders, who tend often to take any chance they have of clinging to power. “Our nation remains calm and…
A US drone strike in Baghdad has killed three members of the powerful Kata’ib Hezbollah militia, including a high-ranking commander, according to US officials.The drone strike hit a car in the Iraqi capital – and was in response to a drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan towards the end of January. Sky News’ Alex Crawford arrived at the scene shortly after the blast and said there was “great tension” and a “great deal of anger towards America”.”There has been a furious response about the killing,” she said.”The locals round here are demanding an investigation by the Iraqi…
Senegal’s internet service was restored Wednesday, days after the government suspended it following the postponement of this month’s presidential election. “It remains unclear as to whether the restoration will be sustained,” internet monitor Netblocks said. Unrest erupted in Dakar after President Macky Sall postponed Senegal’s presidential election originally scheduled for February 25. Access to mobile data had been blocked since early Monday when lawmakers backed Sall’s decision to hold the election in December. They took the decision only after security forces stormed the chamber and removed some opposition deputies, who were unable to cast their votes. It sparked sporadic protests and international…
Over months of negotiations, members of the European Parliament had sought to introduce consent-based definition of rape across the EU. However, it was clear that that had not been achieved when Frances Fitzgerald, an Irish member of the European Parliament and a rapporteur tasked with drawing up common guidelines on violence against women within the EU, presented the results of the negotiations between the European Parliament and the European Council to the media on Tuesday evening. “For the first time, the European Union sends a clear message that we take violence against women seriously as an existential threat to our security,” said Fitzgerald, who is…
At least seven people have been killed and 48 others are missing after a landslide buried two buses carrying passengers in the southern Philippines.The incident on Tuesday happened close to a gold mining site in the mountain area of Masara, situated in the town of Maco in Davao de Oro province.Among the missing were 27 miners who had been waiting in two buses to begin their journey home when the landslide buried both vehicles, Davao de Oro provincial spokesperson Edward Macapili said.Officials said workers were being collected in four 60-seater buses along with a jeep, which had a capacity for…
In a landmark ruling, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has argued FIFA and UEFA broke EU law by blocking the Super League and “abused their dominant position” in the sport. “The FIFA and UEFA rules making any new interclub football project subject to their prior approval, such as the Super League, and prohibiting clubs and players from playing in those competitions, are unlawful,” the court said. “There is no framework for the FIFA and UEFA rules ensuring that they are transparent, objective, non- discriminatory and proportionate.” The court did, however, add that the ruling did not mean the Super League would be approved.…
German Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Integration Svenja Schulze opened the first Migration Resource Center in Ado, Nasarawa State. The center is part of a strategy to offer information and employment advice to young people in Nigeria who have been making the dangerous journey across the Sahara Desert and then the Atlantic Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea to Europe before securing the required paperwork or employment. The Migration Resource Center is in Ado, a densely populated area near Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. The center provides counseling, support and employment advice to Nigerians who intend to migrate to Europe and offers…
Angelique Eijpe used to spend her days drafting strategies for the future of Dutch foreign policy from an office in The Hague. Across her 21-year career as a diplomat, she served as the Netherlands’ deputy ambassador in Oman and worked on Middle East policy. These days, Eijpe is jobless. She resigned from the Dutch Foreign Ministry in January in protest of her government’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. “I’m the breadwinner in my family,” Eijpe told DW over the phone. “But I said to my partner: I really cannot be part of this anymore. My personal and professional integrity is…
France: More than 100 cats found dead in freezer or buried in garden at ‘house of horror’, reports say | World News
More than 100 dead cats have reportedly been discovered in a freezer or buried in a garden at a “house of horror” in southern France.Sixty-seven feline corpses were found in a chest freezer in a chalet next to the home and on the same grounds, it is believed. An animal protection group, called AEPA, said it also discovered 38 cats – including 12 kittens and one pregnant adult – alive but in need of care, with some showing signs of typhus, which is highly infectious and can be fatal.”They lived in the dirt at this… house for several years, deprived…