Tunisian tennis star Ons Jabeur has reached the bett1open final in Berlin, Germany, after defeating American teenager Coco Gauff in straight sets on Saturday. Jabeur will face the Swiss tennis player and Olympic gold-medallist Belinda Bencic in the fin…
Rwanda: Two killed in suspected rebel attack on bus
Two people were killed and six others injured when armed men suspected of belonging to a rebel group shot at a passenger bus in southern Rwanda, police said Saturday. The attack took place on Saturday afternoon in Nyamagabe district near the Burundi bo…
Over half of players at Euros, AFCON finals abused online
More than half of all players at the finals of last year’s European Championship and Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) were subjected to some form of discriminatory abuse online, a report published by global soccer governing body FIFA has revealed. The ind…
Brazil police arrest 3rd suspect for murder of UK journalist
Brazilian federal police on Saturday said they had arrested a third suspect in the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest nearly two weeks ago. Jeferson da Silva Lima surrendered himself a…
Calais: Asylum seekers undeterred by UK’s Rwanda threats
In a makeshift tented camp outside Calais, Sudanese refugee Ahmed is keeping his sights firmly set on England, despite the threat of being deported to Rwanda once he gets there. But the British government’s new plan to send asylum seekers to the centra…
Ukraine invasion: President Zelensky visits southern front
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the war-torn southern frontline on Saturday for the first time since the Russian invasion as “fierce battles” raged again in the eastern Donbas region. Making a rare trip outside Kyiv where he is based for…
Egyptians mourn Mohammed Morsi on third anniversary of death
Egyptians on Friday marked the third anniversary of the death of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, with a series of social media posts lamenting his passing. Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood who won Egypt’s only d…
One dead in protests against India’s military recruitment
At least one person died and several others were injured in India on Friday in protests against the government’s new army recruitment policy. The man reportedly died in Secunderabad, the twin city of Hyderabad in Telangana state in the southern part of…
EU: Turkish Cypriots in split Cyprus must curb migrant flow
Breakaway Turkish Cypriots on ethnically-divided Cyprus must do their share in stemming migrant arrivals, a senior European Union official said Saturday, as the number of asylum-seekers has shot up significantly so far this year. European Commission Vi…
Syrian opposition praise results of Astana peace talks
The head of the Syrian Opposition delegation to the 18th round of Astana peace negotiations on Syria, Ahmed Toma, has spoken with cautious positivity about “acceptable” results of the latest round of negotiations aimed at resolving the conflict in Syri…