The BBC has said one of its journalists in China was arrested and beaten by police while covering protests on Sunday against the country’s zero-COVID policy. Hundreds of people took to the streets in China’s major cities on Sunday in…
An early morning fire on Monday razed many perfume, ladies wares, cosmetics and wig shops on Kano street near Onitsha main market in Anambra. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the fire, which was said to have started…
Shanghai authorities on Monday put up barriers around a city centre area where hundreds of people protested over the weekend against heavy COVID-19 measures. However, this is one of several demonstrations that have flared across the country. From the streets…
Riots have broken out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco shocked Belgium by winning 2-0 during a World Cup clash in Qatar. Police arrested about a dozen people after using water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds…
Somali security forces were attempting to flush out armed assailants from a hotel in the Somali capital, a police spokesman said Sunday, after the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. There has been no immediate word of any…
Four people were killed in a failed coup attempt on Sao Tome and Principe, the state news agency STP-Press said Sunday reporting a toll from the armed forces chief of staff. The military, which Friday thwarted a coup bid in…
Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated DJs do it. We’re talking about that mysterious bodily function that polite society leaves to the imagination. But rapper Drake knows the way to a man’s heart is through the bathroom. That’s…
Iran state media has called for the US to be kicked out of the 2022 World Cup after the United States Soccer Federation changed Iran’s flag on its social media platforms to show support for protesters in Iran. The federation…
Today’s launch of Harvey Weinstein exposé movie She Said has given a shot in the arm to a UK campaign to stop the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). The Can’t Buy My Silence campaign was launched by Zelda Perkins –…
Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a “general amnesty” to some suspended accounts from next week. This came after he started a poll on Wednesday asking Twitter users whether accounts that had “not broken the law or engaged in egregious…
