Ireland, Spain, and Norway have announced they will formally recognise a Palestinian state on 28 May, triggering an immediate response from Israel, which is recalling its ambassadors from Dublin, Madrid, and Oslo. The three European governments made the long-awaited announcements in coordinated moves yesterday morning that they said were intended to support a two-state solution and foster peace in the …

Iran President Ebrahim Raisi had a “lot of blood on his hands”, the White House said on Monday despite Washington offering condolences after his death in a helicopter crash. “This was a man who had a lot of blood on his hands,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters, saying Raisi was responsible for “atrocious” rights abuses in Iran …

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, the Islamic Republic News Agency reports. The demise of the Iranian president was announced early Monday morning. Mr Raisi’s helicopter and two more helicopters were en route to Tabriz City on Sunday after he inaugurated the Qiz Qalasi Dam at the border with the Azerbaijan Republic. Foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, …

A helicopter carrying Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi has been involved in an incident while he was visiting neighbouring Azerbaijan, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on X on Sunday according to CNN. “Some of the president’s companions on this helicopter were able to communicate with Central Headquarters, raising hopes that the incident could have ended without casualties,” it added. It …

Iran on Saturday hanged at least seven people, including two women, while a member of its Jewish minority is at imminent risk of execution as the Islamic Republic further intensified its use of capital punishment, an NGO said. Parvin Mousavi, 53, a mother of two grown-up children, was hanged in Urmia prison in northwestern Iran along with five men convicted …

President Bola Tinubu on Thursday received President Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal and called for an alignment of purpose and structure in West Africa to effectively address the challenges confronting the region. The Nigerian President said that West Africa must work together to defeat the hydra-headed problems of terrorism, banditry, human trafficking and poverty. He advised that leaders in the …

A Ghanaian has instituted a legal case against the United Kingdom Home Office after he was denied permanent residency despite living in the country for 42 years. The Ghanaian identified as Nelson Shardey is a retired 74-year-old man who arrived in the UK in 1977. But after living in the UK for almost 50 years, Shardey was informed to wait …

Melinda French Gates on Monday resigned from her position as a co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to her, by leaving the foundation she would be getting an additional $12.5 billion to commit to her work. Melinda, who announced this on her X handle @melindagates disclosed that her last day of work at the foundation will be …

A Boeing passenger plane came off the runway during takeoff in Senegal early Thursday, injuring 11 people and shutting the international airport near the capital Dakar for almost 12 hours, management said. The B737/300 aircraft, an Air Senegal flight chartered by privately-owned Transair, was carrying 78 passengers and headed for the Malian capital Bamako, airport managers LAS said in a …

A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa’s coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in the rubble, the city hall said. Seventy people were on the site at the time of the collapse, of which 22 have been taken to hospital, a city spokeswoman said. Details later…